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The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, years later, bring them back to the scene of the crime. | Learn more
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I just don't understand all the hype that surrounded this book
I remember seeing this book in our house back in the 1970s. I might have even read it, but I can't clearly recall.To me, this is better suited as a book to be read by children... they can get some insight out of it, especially teens (to whom I recommend this book). But it is really a fable written for grown adults, and I'm surprised so many of them in the 70s read this book and obtained "deep" insights into life. It's not really all that deep even below the veneer of a simple fable. If this book led adults of the 70s to obtain spiritual insight -- which appears to be the case among some (and yet among some of those they would later morph into Yuppies during the 1980s) -- I just wonder about the quality of any other literature they were reading for *this* particular book to have such a big spiritual impact on them.Be that as it may, I suppose people can be blown away and find meaning and enlightenment even by looking at a piece of mica (truly), so I shouldn't be overly critical of its readers. I just don't understand all the hype that surrounded this book.By the way, as one reviewer pointed out, there are no female gulls following Jonathan and seeking enlightenment, let alone serving as spiritual leaders, in the story. That's a good criticism. After all, this is a book published in the New Age of 1970, not 1770. Also, many people are put off by the rediscovered Part Four that has now been added to the original edition. I won't give away any spoilers. Instead, I'll just note that Part Four was my favorite part of the book, as it shifted the book from being relatively shallow (despite its attempt to be a deep fable) up to more of an adult level. Perhaps the publisher thought that adult readers weren't "ready" for such an ending back in 1970. But surely we can take into consideration the ending 50 years later, can we not? Have we not grown?
