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 by George Six is a memoir about the authors life experience. Born in Kansas, an engineer by educational qualification and an active demoncrat, he shares his ministerial journey through this book. Six shares the story of how family problems or rather family challenges miraculously geared him to taking up the call of being a minister. Are you a minister seeking for advice on how to answer the call? Are you a person with many unending questions that you need guidance to solve in a Godly way? Then this book is for you.
In narrating the story, the author made use of the first person point of view but sometimes he switched to the third person point of view. This third person point of view was usually used when he was narrating other people's story. The plot was arranged but I discovered a minor problem in it. The author sometimes used the flashback technique and whenever he did this, he would not make it obvious that the flashback had ended and it would seem as if he was still narrating a past incident. Also he was constantly going in and out of the past incident, different from the present one he was narrating . Even though I understand he was trying to state a reason for the present action, it left me confused as I had to read the lines before the flashback again then jump back to the lines after the flashback so that the story will continue flowing. It might not be a real problem for some people but for me, it was breaking the free flow of the story.
The language of the author was simple but salted with some words I believed were used in the 1900s which was when the events in the book took place.
The author did a good work in the narration of the story as it concerns language and at the same time, I was able to l was able to learn some new words like squalor (page 31 paragraph 3) and jingoism(page 29 paragraph 1).
What I liked most about the book was the author's boldness. This can be seen in the way he handle challenges that came his way as a minister. My best part of the book was the part about the man who came to George Six for a confession but stated that he had to offer the priest (George Six) as a sacrifice for his sins. I loved the way the minister handled the problem. He did not show signs of fear but handled the matter with courage which led to the restoration of the man.
One thing I did not like about this book aside from the frequent change from past to present event was that some ideas or points in the book were not well detailed. An example is seen in page 36 paragraph 3- "Karl was smitten by Eucharist vestments, limited for the most part of the Lutheran Church to a cassock and stole or a tippet (a black wide stole)". In this passage, I had wished that the author had explained the meaning of stole here as my dictionary was giving me a meaning which was different from what I sensed the author was referring to.
There is no other thing I disliked about the book. I had some really noticeable typographical errors that sometimes prevented me from getting the message of the lines. I give this book 3 stars out of 4 stars because of its message. It was like reading a guide and it was really interesting. I would have given it a perfect score if not for the errors stated above. I recommend it to aspiring ministers and to anyone who is interested in Christian based books.
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...on your way home...Do This
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on your way home...do this by George Six is a memoir about the authors life experience. Born in Kansas, an engineer by educational qualification and an active demoncrat, he shares his ministerial journey through this book. Six shares the story of how family problems or rather family challenges miraculously geared him to taking up the call of being a minister. Are you a minister seeking for advice on how to answer the call? Are you a person with many unending questions that you need guidance to solve in a Godly way? Then this book is for you.
In narrating the story, the author made use of the first person point of view but sometimes he switched to the third person point of view. This third person point of view was usually used when he was narrating other people's story. The plot was arranged but I discovered a minor problem in it. The author sometimes used the flashback technique and whenever he did this, he would not make it obvious that the flashback had ended and it would seem as if he was still narrating a past incident. Also he was constantly going in and out of the past incident, different from the present one he was narrating . Even though I understand he was trying to state a reason for the present action, it left me confused as I had to read the lines before the flashback again then jump back to the lines after the flashback so that the story will continue flowing. It might not be a real problem for some people but for me, it was breaking the free flow of the story.
The language of the author was simple but salted with some words I believed were used in the 1900s which was when the events in the book took place.
The author did a good work in the narration of the story as it concerns language and at the same time, I was able to l was able to learn some new words like squalor (page 31 paragraph 3) and jingoism(page 29 paragraph 1).
What I liked most about the book was the author's boldness. This can be seen in the way he handle challenges that came his way as a minister. My best part of the book was the part about the man who came to George Six for a confession but stated that he had to offer the priest (George Six) as a sacrifice for his sins. I loved the way the minister handled the problem. He did not show signs of fear but handled the matter with courage which led to the restoration of the man.
One thing I did not like about this book aside from the frequent change from past to present event was that some ideas or points in the book were not well detailed. An example is seen in page 36 paragraph 3- "Karl was smitten by Eucharist vestments, limited for the most part of the Lutheran Church to a cassock and stole or a tippet (a black wide stole)". In this passage, I had wished that the author had explained the meaning of stole here as my dictionary was giving me a meaning which was different from what I sensed the author was referring to.
There is no other thing I disliked about the book. I had some really noticeable typographical errors that sometimes prevented me from getting the message of the lines. I give this book 3 stars out of 4 stars because of its message. It was like reading a guide and it was really interesting. I would have given it a perfect score if not for the errors stated above. I recommend it to aspiring ministers and to anyone who is interested in Christian based books.
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...on your way home...Do This
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