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important book

Revisado: 09-11-22

This book is too important to let any minor narration difficulties get in the way of listening to it.
Published in 2001 before books were being read and listened to digitally, I've been hoping for it to come out in audible form for years. I have read parts of the book several times, but it's such a tome, I think I never got all the way through it. I''m happy to start listening to it from the beginning. When they announced it was coming out on Audible, I immediately pre-ordered it.
I was disappointed when they kept postponing the release. They could have had several people read different parts of it and made it go faster.
The narrator has some glitches at the beginning, but I found the book listenable so far.
Carroll's writing is personal and insightful, vulnerable and honest. He faces difficult issues directly, exposing anti-Jewish bias in the history, scripture, and actions of the church, all while maintaining a clear position of love, concern, and respect for this institution he served as a priest.
As a pastor in a main line Protestant denomination, I was concerned that the focus on the Catholic Church would not feel relevant to my experience, but much of the history of the Catholic Church is, of course, the history of all Christian churches. Even the parts of the book that focused on suggestions for a 3rd Vatican council felt relevant and interesting.
I'm only at the beginning of listening to the book this time, but I have listened enough to sense that the narration is not an obstacle to understanding or appreciating the brilliance of this important book.

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Helpful information

Revisado: 02-01-21

Very specific suggestions about how to eat healthily and be good to your gut. She knows her stuff and puts it forward with authority and enthusiasm

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Well written

Revisado: 02-14-20

Beatifully written, painful stories, well read, powerful research. This is an important book about the underside of the housing market.

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A curious story

Revisado: 01-20-17

I listened to the book in preparation for seeing it on stage and it intrigues me think how they stage it. It's an engaging story, well told.

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Beautiful story

Revisado: 03-17-15

Delectible writing and a profound and simple story, with a few surprises, William Berry is a gem. He has real integrity as a writer.
The reading of this book was dead on.

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Powerful story of a great life

Revisado: 01-20-15

This story of Bonhoeffer's life is an important biography of a devoted Christian. It tells about his faith life without very much context of his actual theological teaching and thinking. It details his commitment to his family, his fiance, his students and his calling to resist Hitler. Such a shame that he was killed. He had much more to offer.

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Interesting, but flawed

Revisado: 09-24-11

The book is not about church, but about the possibilities and difficulties of connections people make through Facebook. The author tries to take a positive view of the possibilities and give people ways to deal with the difficulties. I appreciated his approach. I felt that some of his analogies, including the first one about the Millennial Bridge and how people became synchronized in their walk across it, to be just a bit awkward.
Similarly the reader pronounces several words incorrectly in that section - words like "Thames" and "prevalent" - which I found distracting.
The book is worth listening to. I enjoyed the attempt to appreciate Facebook and social media and to redeem them from the way they usually get used. It's easy to criticize the shallow ways we use these sites, but Church of Facebook is holding out hope we can go deeper.

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