Review: A Complete, Profound and Touching Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
I don't usually read reviews before I write one, but I couldn't help it this time because I didn't believe the low numbers and comments like "no depth," "it was too short" and "I didn't get my money's worth."  Crystal is a Kindle Short, short means not long; it was ninety-nine cents for Christ's sake (we can get a lot for ninety-nine cents these days) and if it had no depth, then having your life decided by your mother and backed up by an institutionalized god and then you rebelling against that edict is one of life's shallow experiences.  I thought the central symbol of the story compelling, the portrait of John and the piggish Father Ryan devastating.  To me, it read like a Greek tragedy.  Images from the story will linger in my memory for a long, not short time.