Alright quick book review since I read it in a day (not something that happens often with me)
Finding Noel is by Richard Paul Evans, it has an interesting storyline. I guessed at many of the outcomes and there was a weird sort of foreshadowing with portions of the chapters--maybe I'm just slow, it took me a few chapters to catch on to the ordering of events.
I wonder a little at Evans and his parental input. Each of the fathers mentioned in the story were... without real presence. Many of them lacked character. (In case you wondered there were 5 fathers).
At the very beginning the central character is close to the edge, contemplating suicide. I wonder--how close are we each day to people who no longer wish to live? What difference have we made in their lives? Or have we simply brushed by without leaving an impression.
2 comments:
Was the lack of presence intentional, do you think, or lack of character development? Do you think it is a reflection of the author's experience or a reflection of current culture?
I think we too often walk around so absorbed with our own lives that we miss the hurting around us completely. Sometimes we are reminded of that in the most convicting ways. I have to pray "open my eyes" pretty often.
I'm not sure if it was intentional... I don't know how authors differ, but the one friend I have that writes rather prolifically leaves pieces of himself in the story--intentional or otherwise. It's because that's our frame of reference I suppose, the perspective that we write from.
I don't want to give a whole lot away in case someone was actually interested in reading the book, to me they lacked character, there was development. Really I think a part of the authors point was to say 'we're all human' and--sometimes there are reasons beyond our current understanding for the way our lives are.
It's like looking at a picture... here's the *picture* and it's focused on one small corner of a larger painting... then there's a zooming out to encompass more.
Here's my example of the latter half of the blog... there's someone I know that I would not for the life of me want to work for, there's a personality difference for sure, but it's more than that it's a way of doing things and a manner of speech... BUT that same person has become less unlovely because while there's a rough side, there's also a polished side a caring side and I greatly appreciate that person for who she is (we still butt heads, fyi).
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