Customer Reviews

The Judas Tree

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The first book that made a serious impact in my life. I was young and lost, and to see and feel other persons weaknesses, pains and frustrations, help me overcome my own, in ways that, after almost 40 years, I cannot truly understand nor explain. Today, I suggested this book to my very loving and talented 16 year old daugther. Not because I feel she needs it as I needed it, but because I know that this book will make her understand life in a way that will make her even a better and more sensitive young lady... I love her very much..

I imagine that this story might make some people feel uncomfortable. Most of us from time to time have probably justified doing something wrong or have acted in our own interest at the expense of others.

The main character in this book took this behavior to extremes while remaining charming and pleasant and genuinely believing himself to be a good man. Behavior that is all too common in the world today.

Moral lessons aside the story is compelling and well written and will stay with you long after you've finished it.

I really loved this novel. It is the story of a weak man who, because of his weakness and selfishness, ruins the lives of two women, a mother and daughter. It is not a "happy" story, so if you like "happy endings" this novel will not please you.

I'm not sure if the previous reviewer and I even read the same book. This book was average. Nothing great. It broadcasts the plot twists dozens of pages before they happen. The only great thing about this book is that it reminds you how good a similar book("The Heart of the Matter" by Graham Greene) is in comparison.

The plot involves a old man who decides to right the wrong(leaving his "one true love") he committed in his youth only to discover it's not that easy. He can't change a lifetime's worth of taking the easy way out and justifying it to himself.