Wow ordered yesterday delivered today! Congratulations Laura! This is going to take awhile.
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Yes, I ordered it on the evening of the 16th, with standard free delivery expected between the 20th and the 22nd, and happily, it arrived today and I’ve started it tonight.
I love how there’s no long build-up to the basis of belief of all regular Christians: “Hello reader. Jesus of Nazareth didn’t exist. Anyway, about this Paul guy...”
It’s hard to put into words how readable and engaging Laura’s writing style is. Sitting here on the couch, reading the book, takes me back to the first exposure I had to Laura’s work through
Secret History. It’s like you’re not reading at all, but more like Laura is in the room, or in your head or something.
And a major aspect to that ‘readability’ of Laura’s work is like a brick by brick approach: Laura places a brick and says, “So here’s a thing I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and it is A, and it can’t be B or C or M, or W, see?” And you go, “Ah right, yes. Okay, I’m with you.” And then Laura goes, “So that can only lead to this next brick here,” and she then places the next brick, showing how it belongs on top of brick A, and not underneath it, or next to it.
And so on. All the time, in your mind, you’re getting almost image-like understandings of the things she’s talking about.
Anyway, I’ll shut up and get back to it. But, Laura; there’s nothing I personally could say to give anything like the sort of energy back to you that you’ve put into these pages. But thank you, all the same.