tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960074514488243322.post1852956127820437004..comments2023-08-21T16:55:06.540-07:00Comments on Read. Write. Repeat.: The Orphan Master's Son - Adam JohnsonAlisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08782778978854499305noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960074514488243322.post-39430130174401546292016-05-26T15:50:39.178-07:002016-05-26T15:50:39.178-07:00Thanks for your comment - I was thinking exactly t...Thanks for your comment - I was thinking exactly the same thing. SeanInInwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08452862069809520778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960074514488243322.post-66835365602347882102013-10-28T14:00:00.889-07:002013-10-28T14:00:00.889-07:00I'm so sorry to hear that you have had a negat...I'm so sorry to hear that you have had a negative experience with those claiming to follow Christ. I hope they would be among the first to express their imperfection. His message was one of love and healing, not of hatred or hypocrisy.<br /><br />As for Johnson's book, I am not sure I understand how there can be a difference between truth and facts. Aren't the two the same by definition? Regardless of your definitions of the words, Johnson should not be penalized for his exemption of the "universal truth." The book is a work of fiction. He did not show every aspect of North Korean culture just as he did not show every side of American Christianity. The book would have been too long. <br /><br />Just my thoughts. Thanks so much for sharing yours!Alisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08782778978854499305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960074514488243322.post-12395140515756968502013-10-27T23:46:40.966-07:002013-10-27T23:46:40.966-07:00The treatment of religion is the only thing that d...The treatment of religion is the only thing that disturbs me in this novel. As an agnostic and a humanist, I can not accept the idea that all Americans clinging to their religion are the kind good-hearted ilk in the novel. I admit that freedom of religion is an inalienable right as well as my right not to worship something I do not believe in. Religion in Europe is more about the humanities, tradition, and it is not a part of daily life. I have lived in the USA for four years, and religion here in the South is mostly the supreme example of delusion, HYPOCRISY, racism, white race entitlement, obscurantism, supremacy, and villainization of other beliefs, insular intolerance. People talk the talk and do not walk the walk. Maybe it is the problem of the conservative American South. This is the only thing that might encourage me to give four star instead of five. After all, the role of an author to tell the truth, not the facts, but the truth when it comes to ideas, zeitgeist, feelings, something that I call the human truth. By the way, I have witnessed the same sins even in the most secularized, civilized Islam ... A sad story ... I think as an author he puts his beliefs above the universal truth that not the religion makes people kind and loving, it is the callings of their hearts ... and Johnson failed to show it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com