corrigan's Reviews (451)

This is UNHINGED. I was an evangelical for many moons, so I've seen my share of religious delusion, but I've never seen anything like this guy outside of a cult documentary. If Mother Teresa told him he needed to off himself before the comet came, he would've donned the Nikes so fast. 

This whole defense can basically be boiled down to "her critics were all atheist socialists so they just didn't understand that suffering is good, governments shouldn't help the poor, and the best thing for women is to be forced to give birth so their babies can die on a dirty cot with 2 other infants."

Listen, I wouldn't normally even DREAM of plugging my podcast in a Storygraph review, but this was recommended to me by one of our listeners who said that there's significant overlap between what we discuss and this book. Boy howdy, was she ever right. We've covered probably 75% of the things in this delightful book. So if you enjoyed this, you might enjoy Jack of All Graves, and we'd be happy to have you along for the journey.

This was 5 stars for me for the first 3/4s of the book,  and then it slipped out of allegory to just blatantly explaining what it meant. As an exvangelical, I'm here for the religious trauma allegory, but I was enjoying unraveling that for myself and wanted to see how that would play out symbolically. Instead it was kind of like if at the end of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Aslan was like, "Also I represent Jesus Christ, who died for your sins but rose again just like I died in this book and then rose again."