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We characterize unintelligible speech by saying, “That's Greek to me,” the Russians and Rumanians by “That's Chinese to me,” the French by “That's Hebrew to me,” the Germans by “That's Spanish to me,” and the Poles by “I'm listening to a Turkish sermon.”
Liberals doubted the sermonizer but loved the sermon.
Although McKibben's earlier books (mostly on the ways he has reduced his environmental impact on the earth) were slammed as having "the homiletic tone of a Sunday school sermon" ( New York Times man Richard Bernstein on Hope, Human and Wild ), this one strikes a positive chord with most reviewers.
Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.
There are moments (like Flek's sermon) when this novel can make you wince.