gimley reviewed When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
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5 stars
McLuhan said (somewhere) that books wouldn't be accepted if they contained too much novelty, and indeed, as a rule, most books seem to have just one overriding idea--a sort of monotheism of topic. This is not such a book.
Conversely, Marilynne Robinson says, of the New Atheists, that it's convenient to critique their ideas because all their writings have the same ones, so she can just use the book she has at hand.
There is also life in what she is saying. Her ideas could not have been generated by stochastic processes. There's a human being behind them who read books as a child. There is an experience of intimacy reading them.
If you think this can only be achieved at the cost of irrationality, you'd be wrong.
