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Review of Working At The Warehouse
[Following is a volunteer review of "Working At The Warehouse" by Jerry A. Greenberg.]
Righteous Distributor of Salvation Tools is a warehouse that houses and sells all sorts of items related to all religions. Lew Thompson is the warehouse manager, a solution finder, very prompt and always on the job, alert and ready for action. His team is made of people with different backgrounds and opinions: the salesman, Louis Mahon; Evangeline the bookkeeper and office manager; Sally Beaugereau the sales person; Billy Anderson the warehouse foreman; Delores Hufnaigle the purchasing agent; Ahmad the crew foreman and the Egyptians, workers in the warehouse. The action is placed in the time of numerous religions and a time when people invested in religious items, like buying tickets to heaven. Also churches, would invest in crazy items in order to attract believers into thinking, they belong to something outwordly and important. One day the warehouse receives a box of 10 000 year old prayers. These prayers come with the menace of teaching people that they don’t need a church or religion to get to their God. So that means these investments would be useless, so, bad for business. At this point the company becomes alerted and summons Lew for a conversation that is meant to make him understand that he must destroy the box. He is shaken up by their meeting and the event itself that he starts questioning his beliefs and feelings concerning his job. In the tempest of inner thoughts and actions that must be taken, he has a strange meeting with Ahmad, his crew foreman, and starts having lucid dreams and conversations to a monkey. He is also forced to remember everything that he went through since his wife died and begins to see things in another perspective. Ahmad tells him that he must reveal these prayers to the world. Lew finds himself trapped between the idea of quitting his job, revealing the prayers, and destroying the prayers and lead the world to a sort of self destruction, as his foreman predicted. Also the Interpol comes to stage making things more difficult that they already were and to top it all he discovers a spy amongst his crew members.
How will he cope with the pressure, what will he decide and what is actually going on in the warehouse? Read and find out as I promise you are in for some delicious surprises. Working at the Warehouse is a great book. It keeps you reading, guessing and imagining different scenarious. It makes you meditate about your own beliefs and the idea of God and religion. It is not a religious book although the action revolves around “the box of 98% pure, 10 000 year old prayers”. The characters are nicely built with a detailed description “At a little over six feet tall, lean and pretty, like young European men, with smooth skin and rosy cheeks, framed by curly blond hair”. The author, Jerry A. Greenberg, did a very good job editing the book extremely well.
I found no negative aspect in the book as I enjoyed it very much. Apart from the main idea of the book, you get attached to the characters, you visualize their feature and you get personally involved in the action, trying to understand and to solve the mystery around them.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars because it is altogether interesting and introspective without boring the reader with useless details. Jerry A. Greenberg has a gift for writing about people’s inner thoughts that you find yourself thinking you’re a part of the book.
I recommend the book to a mature audience as it contains profane words and explicit sexual scenes. Although it has a religious content I doubt that anybody would feel offended by the writers mentioning of ones religion.
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Working At The Warehouse
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Righteous Distributor of Salvation Tools is a warehouse that houses and sells all sorts of items related to all religions. Lew Thompson is the warehouse manager, a solution finder, very prompt and always on the job, alert and ready for action. His team is made of people with different backgrounds and opinions: the salesman, Louis Mahon; Evangeline the bookkeeper and office manager; Sally Beaugereau the sales person; Billy Anderson the warehouse foreman; Delores Hufnaigle the purchasing agent; Ahmad the crew foreman and the Egyptians, workers in the warehouse. The action is placed in the time of numerous religions and a time when people invested in religious items, like buying tickets to heaven. Also churches, would invest in crazy items in order to attract believers into thinking, they belong to something outwordly and important. One day the warehouse receives a box of 10 000 year old prayers. These prayers come with the menace of teaching people that they don’t need a church or religion to get to their God. So that means these investments would be useless, so, bad for business. At this point the company becomes alerted and summons Lew for a conversation that is meant to make him understand that he must destroy the box. He is shaken up by their meeting and the event itself that he starts questioning his beliefs and feelings concerning his job. In the tempest of inner thoughts and actions that must be taken, he has a strange meeting with Ahmad, his crew foreman, and starts having lucid dreams and conversations to a monkey. He is also forced to remember everything that he went through since his wife died and begins to see things in another perspective. Ahmad tells him that he must reveal these prayers to the world. Lew finds himself trapped between the idea of quitting his job, revealing the prayers, and destroying the prayers and lead the world to a sort of self destruction, as his foreman predicted. Also the Interpol comes to stage making things more difficult that they already were and to top it all he discovers a spy amongst his crew members.
How will he cope with the pressure, what will he decide and what is actually going on in the warehouse? Read and find out as I promise you are in for some delicious surprises. Working at the Warehouse is a great book. It keeps you reading, guessing and imagining different scenarious. It makes you meditate about your own beliefs and the idea of God and religion. It is not a religious book although the action revolves around “the box of 98% pure, 10 000 year old prayers”. The characters are nicely built with a detailed description “At a little over six feet tall, lean and pretty, like young European men, with smooth skin and rosy cheeks, framed by curly blond hair”. The author, Jerry A. Greenberg, did a very good job editing the book extremely well.
I found no negative aspect in the book as I enjoyed it very much. Apart from the main idea of the book, you get attached to the characters, you visualize their feature and you get personally involved in the action, trying to understand and to solve the mystery around them.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars because it is altogether interesting and introspective without boring the reader with useless details. Jerry A. Greenberg has a gift for writing about people’s inner thoughts that you find yourself thinking you’re a part of the book.
I recommend the book to a mature audience as it contains profane words and explicit sexual scenes. Although it has a religious content I doubt that anybody would feel offended by the writers mentioning of ones religion.
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Working At The Warehouse
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