Evan

So much to love about this book. The slower you read it, the more you get out of each little entry. These poems are beautifully vulnerable while simultaneously being beautifully cryptic. Very easy read that you can get so much out of. Highly recommend. Especially if you're also a cripplingly deep thinker.

This book will land with some, and miss with others. The plot doesn't really go anywhere, it's more just a brief insight into Harry Morgan's rough life. In my opinion, the absence of meaningful plot tragically but beautifully reflects the world's indifference to the events that take place in the book. Everything is so graphic and tragic yet painted in such an insignificant light, and that's what made this book stick with me personally. Again, not gonna be for everyone, but I found it a worthwhile read.

A very scholarly work. You'll learn loads about apocryphal texts and extra-canonical gospels. I think this book provides a very fair analysis of available evidence, without making unsupported claims or conclusions. While this book didn't revitalize my perception of Jesus in the way I hoped it would, I still learned a lot and would strongly recommend to anyone who is interested in the historical side of Christianity and Jesus' ministry.

Very approachably academic. Vince and Ravi pack this book with high quality research and reference but still manage to deliver in a very "easy-read" manner. (I should clarify, it's an easy read if you've already studied these topics. If this is your introduction to secular ideologies, you'll still get a lot out of it, you just may have to play catch-up on a bit of the terminology, would still recommend to anyone looking to educate themselves on any of the worldviews discussed in this book)

This is one of the greatest pieces of literature I've ever read. It conveys a crucial, profound message in the most enjoyable, humorous, witty way. This is authorship at its finest. I couldn't recommend this book enough to literally anyone. There is no target demographic. If you've got two feet and a heartbeat this book can change your life.

The concept of this book is phenomenal, and the actual topics and regrets discussed are really valuable to be aware of, but the book itself is quite bloated, with the author often repeating herself and yapping on about "healing" and other 'self-helpy' buzz words when they aren't remotely relevant. Overall, would still recommend. There is incredibly valuable wisdom in this book, you just gotta dig through some fluff to get to it.

I really enjoyed the scenery of fantasized Oregon, I really like the characters in the book, but I was disappointed in the plot. It just didn't really seem to go anywhere. Specifically the main character's "gift" the book is named after is hardly mentioned let alone explored or explained. Started strong but failed to hold up.

Such an interesting idea of heaven, really makes you sit back and evaluate what you're doing with your life and where your priorities are. I was really impacted by it, and it's scattered with great quotes to hold onto. My personal favourite comes right away on the fourth page:

"Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do: He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come." (pg. 4)

This may be the funniest book I've ever read while simultaneously impacting my outlook on life in a way that few books ever have. I love how the book is structured, the characters are all so easy to get behind (especially Ove of course). It's the perfect balance of hilarious and meaningful while remaining believable and interesting. Can't recommend this book enough.

I really wanted to like this book. The foreword and title and whatnot had me excited, expecting something truly miraculous, and while Eben's survival was a miracle, in my opinion he really fails to make his claim believable. He explains potential justifications for his experience, but then quickly writes them off with little explanation, always defaulting to the fact that each theory couldn't explain the "realness" of his experience.