Review of ...on your way home...Do This
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Review of ...on your way home...Do This
[Following is a volunteer review of "...on your way home...Do This" by George Six.]
...on your way home…Do This is like an autobiography of its writer, George Six, packed with many interesting stories from people around him. To be brutally honest, I don't understand the correlation between the title and the story itself. I thought it was going to be a book full of advice. But in fact, it tells stories from why Six decided to become a priest and his ups and downs while being a priest. Honestly, since I am not a Christian, I don't know if a 'priest' is the right name to describe what he had been doing, so I am just generalizing it with that term.
Becoming the first autobiography that I have ever read, I found this book unique and exciting. The story is also authentic, which made me couldn't guess the plot or what would happen to the characters. It was utterly unpredictable, perhaps, because the story itself is real. In addition, I admire the way Six describe each story in his book. I could have imagined how meaningful they are since he remembers almost all the exact details of the story. FYI, the stories were not written around the time of happening, but after many, many years.
Regardless of the unique and authentic side of the story, I think it was too broad and hard to see the story’s focus. Besides writing his own experiences, Six also includes other people’s stories and describes them in detail. When he was telling a ‘main’ story, he often put lots of details information that included others’ experiences and abruptly jumped back to the ‘main’ story. The book is like a tree full of branches, and each branch has lots of branches that have branches as well. So it was really crowded. And personally, it makes me lost my focus easily. We regularly moved from person to person or from past to present because he also included many additional stories describing the person or the character in the present time when he wrote the book.
Therefore, I'll give this book 3 out of 4 stars. I recommend this book, but personally, I don’t really enjoy the crowdedness of the story, and I didn’t find the book can change my life or perfective in a certain way; it is just good reading.
I don't know to whom exactly this book is addressed, but from the content of the story, I think the one who’s going to enjoy this story is a person who’s seeking his way to a God. If you are a religious person who’s considering being a priest or other similar roles, this book will definitely help you, so consider adding it to your bookshelf.
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...on your way home…Do This is like an autobiography of its writer, George Six, packed with many interesting stories from people around him. To be brutally honest, I don't understand the correlation between the title and the story itself. I thought it was going to be a book full of advice. But in fact, it tells stories from why Six decided to become a priest and his ups and downs while being a priest. Honestly, since I am not a Christian, I don't know if a 'priest' is the right name to describe what he had been doing, so I am just generalizing it with that term.
Becoming the first autobiography that I have ever read, I found this book unique and exciting. The story is also authentic, which made me couldn't guess the plot or what would happen to the characters. It was utterly unpredictable, perhaps, because the story itself is real. In addition, I admire the way Six describe each story in his book. I could have imagined how meaningful they are since he remembers almost all the exact details of the story. FYI, the stories were not written around the time of happening, but after many, many years.
Regardless of the unique and authentic side of the story, I think it was too broad and hard to see the story’s focus. Besides writing his own experiences, Six also includes other people’s stories and describes them in detail. When he was telling a ‘main’ story, he often put lots of details information that included others’ experiences and abruptly jumped back to the ‘main’ story. The book is like a tree full of branches, and each branch has lots of branches that have branches as well. So it was really crowded. And personally, it makes me lost my focus easily. We regularly moved from person to person or from past to present because he also included many additional stories describing the person or the character in the present time when he wrote the book.
Therefore, I'll give this book 3 out of 4 stars. I recommend this book, but personally, I don’t really enjoy the crowdedness of the story, and I didn’t find the book can change my life or perfective in a certain way; it is just good reading.
I don't know to whom exactly this book is addressed, but from the content of the story, I think the one who’s going to enjoy this story is a person who’s seeking his way to a God. If you are a religious person who’s considering being a priest or other similar roles, this book will definitely help you, so consider adding it to your bookshelf.
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...on your way home...Do This
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