John Lawrence Reynolds

I was intrigued by the Amazon review of this book, written by an atheist who appreciated the life-view of one of the main characters because he shares a lot of the same ideas. He identified the views of the main character with those of the author. He also stated that the author presented some theistic characters sympathetically. As authors sometimes have their characters adopt a viewpoint other than their own to explore its consequences, I was interested to see if I came to the same conclusion about the author's worldview. I am not sure I do, entirely (but I don't want to explain why due to possible spoilers), yet given the language the author employed and some of the scenes described (although they were short and fairly easy to skip over), I would be surprised to find that the author's worldview was entirely Christian, either. I cannot recommend the book due to the offensive language and the few scenes, but the story-line was interesting, and the problem addressed very real.… (mais)