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Title: The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-449-24569-1 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1982 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Unlike the others, but still very good
Comment: The content was different than Potok's other books that I have read, but no less enjoyable. He writes with such a deep emotion, and I love his characters. I liked Gershon's Kabbalistic studies and how they coincided with the images of light throughout the book. I think this book was spurred by many of Potok's own experiences as a war chaplain in Korea.
I am glad I was able to read it... anything by Potok is beautiful!
Rating: 5
Summary: Painful luminescence
Comment: The Book of Lights is one of those books that either captivates you, or bores you to death. I used to think that Chaim Potok must have written this book just for me, because I was the only person who read it. Or so it seemed. Gershon Loran reminded me of myself in seminary, a lackluster student with a spark for odd and heretical or mystical literature. Bored by normative religion, he seeks answers for the pain and suffering in his life in Kabbalagh, or Jewish mysticism. The reader sees the transformation of his soul into what his mentor, Dr. Keter, calls the next generation of Jewish mysticism: the Light of past wisdom and insight refracted through an American lense. Gershon is a mystic, and yet he doesn't seem to fully realize his potential, because it doesn't seem odd to him when G_d himself descends into his room, or he contemplates storming the throneroom of the Almighty.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating clash of cultures
Comment: I read the Book of Lights in Korea where I was stationed (2nd Inf Div), and perhaps for that reason it really came alive for me. The Chaplaincy is a unique institution, in that military clergy provide ministry for all soldiers, not simply for those of one's particular faith group. Then add the Asian element, the post Korean war trauma, along with the personal struggles with faith, and the result is confronting conflicting cultures and ideas, and an internal struggle to find one's identity. A must for readers of Chaim Potok's novels.
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Title: I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0449221385 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0449911837 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Promise by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0449209105 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Wanderings by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0449215822 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok ISBN: 044921978X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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