Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume

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These extracts from the writings of David Hume concentrate on his views on religious belief. The Dialogues are clearly inspired by the writi...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Veronica Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho

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  Veronica Decides To Die is a novel by Paulo Coelho. I write the review in English, though I read the book in Spanish, so it may be that ma...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

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  The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Paulo Coelho. Perhaps already there is already a divide. There are readers, many of them, for whom t...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) by Isabel Allende

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La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) is a novel by Isabel Allende. I read it in Spanish, without consulting reviews or doing any pr...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Elizabeth – The Forgotten Years by John Guy

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Myths are best served exploded, otherwise they can over-inflate and thus hide the substance of any dish. And if that dish be the national c...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Some thought on Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is not an easy book to review. After finishing any book, the reviewing process is always an excellent way o...
Friday, July 17, 2020

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins first appeared in 2006, the paperback including corrections and clarifications in 2007. Dawkins starts ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

A Northern Ireland Childhood - Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

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Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle is an unusual, highly original account of life in a Northern Ireland Catholic household. Written from...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Between The Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

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Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger won the Booker Prize and was notable for its intriguing form. I thought it would be a hard act to follow. It wou...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

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Like father, like son… This could be the motto that underpins Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz. This might be a rather flippant way of summaris...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

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Graham Greene’s The Honorary Consul is a deceptively ambitious project. And this applies as much to the reading of this great work as to its...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Rules Of Life by Fay Weldon

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The Rules Of Life by Fay Weldon aspires to the feeling of a full-length novel in the guise of a small novella. In less than 30,000 words, we...
Monday, November 8, 2010

East West by Salman Rushdie

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East West is a short collection of short stories by Salman Rushdie. But there is nothing small or even limited about the themes they cover, ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Julian by Gore Vidal

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When you are born into greatness, you may be forgiven for exhibiting a sense of destiny or an assumption of purpose. When you also find your...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Restoration by Rose Tremain

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If I finish a book and declare it to be one of the best I have ever read, I normally wait a few days before writing a review. If my opinion ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

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In her novel The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith takes a comic tour of several aspects of twenty-first century life. Her foci are celebrity-worsh...
Monday, October 20, 2008

The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene

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Over forty years ago a new English teacher at my school answered a question asked by an eager student. The question was, “What do you think ...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

The South by Colm Toibin

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The South by Colm Toibin is an intense, though fitful chronicle of a woman’s life, a life as yet incomplete. It presents a patchwork of deta...