At least to ponder for someone like myself who spends every waking moment and gets paid exorbitant amounts of money to think on such things. I m not sure how the average man on the street would see it. The most memorable bit of the whole thing for me and a wee inkling into Bateman s pathetic but funny all the same sense of humor is when a body that he suspects to be Bill Oddie is brought into the midst of the islanders. This is a fascinating book and one that I d recommend to all of us who are wrestling with the things we have to learn and erase from our evangelical sub culture. This is a book about growing up in the bowels of an evangelical church and hating it for the most part.
Most teenagers try so hard to be different.
I tried to be the same. Based on their holidays in Portafino year after year our sad young man detests the fact that their super spiritual dad says lengthy prayers at mealtimes in front of the girl he fancies and how he tries to preach to her parents on the beach. And father s spiritual fruit is not so abundant when it comes to his temper or treatment of mother and children. It would be a sad indictment if it was. Frank Jr became Orthodox some time ago.