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a GLOWING review of Michael O'Brien's Cry of Stone:Books & Culture's Book of the Week: A Rose Among Thorns

I have been eyeing it in our parish book shop--and it was mentioned by someone when I asked for book club suggestions. With all the good that's been said about it, I may have to buy it after next payday!

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That book is amazing. There were so many bad reviews out there, but it touched my heart in such an incredible way. The last 100 pages or so, I stayed up all night reading it and cried and cried at the end because of its beauty. Such a tremendous example of how God is most easily found in the small, and the weak, and the poor -- how they really are the preferred of His Heart. Go get it and read it, or I could lend you my copy. I'm in your part of town quite a bit these days. Thanks for posting the positive review. I'm glad to hear of it. God Bless!

My wife loves the michael obrien books. I tried to get into cry of stone but i was turned off by the ephemeral modern prose. It was like trying to read a jackson pollack.

Dear Terry,

This probably doesn't come as welcome news, but I find O'Brien's prose mostly workmanlike and occasionally appalling. I liked Father Elijah but have had a very difficult time with subsequent volumes. While not as devestatingly bad as Bud MacFarlane, O'Brien takes the occasional foray into the land of the truly unreadable. However, I have noted that Books and Culture is a fairly reliable source for info, so that does give me hope for the work.

shalom,

Steven

Dear Terry

Devastatingly (I sure wish I could spell before seven in the evening--it would make work so much easier.)

shalom,

Steven

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