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a covenant broken,
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This review is from: Pilgrim : A Novel (Paperback)
You take a lot on faith when you open the cover and start that first paragraph. You're going to give this a chunk of your most valuable possession: your time. You assume that someone held this up to some objective standards for quality. You put your faith in the publisher and the editor, assuming that if the author himself has somehow lost his bearings, they'll put him right. They wouldn't send it off to the printer with huge glaring plot holes, massive inconsistencies, multitudinous loose ends unresolved, and heaps of just plain nonsense never explained. I wish I could get back the money I paid for this book and I wish I could get back the time I wasted reading it. The author, publisher and editor all owe us an apology for passing off this lazy, self-indulgent piece of sloppiness as a whole, entire novel.*massive spoilers ahead* Imagine any doctor anywhere observing a patient who can voluntarily manipulate the muscles of his forehead to form shapes approximating letters -- and never reporting it to anyone! On what planet? People see wings and birds that aren't there -- even photograph them! But nobody says nor does anything about it. Useless characters clutter up the story along with useless description about them, their lives, their clothing, their thoughts -- and it all leads to nothing. Carl Jung is content to disregard the fact that a woman killed in an avalanche had the great good luck to have written a farewell letter before heading out that day. Was this just a handy coincidence? Apparently so. And then there's Jung's wife with all those journals. After she miscarried, she just lost interest in those fantastic journals and no doubt put them away in a shoebox somewhere and forgot about them, right? Cuz they were never mentioned again. Right. I admire what the author set out to do. It was a tantalizing premise, a great idea, and Findley launched it in good order, but it absolutely fell apart in the last pages of the book. I was frustrated and miffed. It was a good story, I'd become emotionally invested in the outcome, and so I wanted RESOLUTION. Do we not deserve that? No, I don't need to be spoonfed an explicit explanation of every little thing, but a book should cover the basics. It should make sense. This writer apparently feels he doesn't owe us that. I'll never read anything by this man ever again and I think the book's publisher should be ashamed of himself. If you were the editor, you let us all down.
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