scifijack reviewed Universal Father by Garry O'Connor
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5 stars
It's so, so difficult to get hold of good material about religious figures, because almost inevitably the work will be overly sympathetic or overly critical. Universal Father isn't the best biography the English language has ever produced, but I'm quite sure it's the best one of John Paul II, and I'm confident saying so even not having read more than a few pages of any other because O'Connor successfully straddles those extremes. The first half, before Karol Wojtyla became Pope, is especially thoroughly researched and well presented.