The Sparrow

[perlmonger]

I'm currently reading The Sparrow. I'm not sure this post counts as a spoiler (and the book is 12 years old), but cut just in case.


This is a beautiful, flawed, painful excavation of the limits of faith, of humanity, of understanding; a confluence of A Case of Conscience, Out of the Silent Planet and Use of Weapons: I'm maybe ⅔ of the way through, and I'm just wondering if the whole edifice was constructed just to allow Mary Doria Russell to use the phrase "and they could hear the Dominicans howling in the forest"?

Comments

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely brief summary. And I've never seen Use of Weapons referenced in relation to The Sparrow before.

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

God that book pissed me off. Beautifully written, good plot, no Templars, characters and scenes so evocative that I can still see and hear everything in my mind's eye (and ears), but I threw it across the room when I finished it. (I am interested in your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter when you finish it.)