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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.
In its curious, modern way, this novel is a sermon.
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.”
Cardinal John O'Connor of New York used his Palm Sunday sermon to declare the episode "legally and doctrinally wrong" and added this grace note: "Some undoubtedly believe that if one has enough prestige or money, anything goes."
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.