reading (Grain of Truth)
Jul. 4th, 2012 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI finished Ross A. Laird's Grain of Truth last night. It didn't take long for me to realize I wasn't the right person for this book. The language is a prose overflowing with imagery, saturated with hues of emotion, soaring whimsically through the warm air of the stratosphere. Or, if you are someone like me: purple, pointless, and self-contradictory.
Of the eight chapters, "Deep Water" and "Shallows" felt the most real and meaningful to me. They both come from deep connections in the author's childhood and have an inherent emotional power. These feel like the origin of the book and the rest of the chapters are window dressing to a make a theme. For me the writing felt forced and stilted, only occasionally dropping the pretense and cutting through to the beauty that lies unadorned in the wood, the water, and the mountain.
But when he mentioned the "warble of the raven" that, that was worth reading the whole book.
23. Ross A. Laird "Grain of Truth"
Of the eight chapters, "Deep Water" and "Shallows" felt the most real and meaningful to me. They both come from deep connections in the author's childhood and have an inherent emotional power. These feel like the origin of the book and the rest of the chapters are window dressing to a make a theme. For me the writing felt forced and stilted, only occasionally dropping the pretense and cutting through to the beauty that lies unadorned in the wood, the water, and the mountain.
But when he mentioned the "warble of the raven" that, that was worth reading the whole book.
23. Ross A. Laird "Grain of Truth"
