To a God Unknown

De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis

Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.

©2012 Penguin Audio (P)1933 John Steinbeck

Deep

This is a very deep book. Yet strikingly very simple. A must have. I think I will find a first edition for my house.

Good work

Enzo is a very good story from the author maybe one of his best books

unbelievable book

incredibly sad in content but the ending I was in tears of joy. this is Steinbeck at his finest, as my favorite writer I was not disappointed. He achieved what he always achieved, which is complete crescendo of something truly higher and transcendent, but during the book it was quite sad, but it needed to be to bring that ending into view.

Descriptions A+

This is my favorite John Steinbeck book. The descriptions of plant and land and animal are so drenched with feeling, I cannot shake it from my person. I carry this world in my heart

Great story

Mr Davis did an excellent job with the characters voices and accents. I enjoyed this performance so much.

Not his best

Been n a kick of about 7 Steinbeck books in a row. While he always paints brilliant pictures and is strong with character development, this one missed the mark for me. He’s normally great at building a hero, but here the hero seems more loathsome as the book goes on. It wasn’t terrible but just not up to par for him

The best narrator

Kinda a weird one John I gotta say BUT this narrator is incredible! I hope to find some more

Vibrating with all there is

The story recalled for me Samuel Clemens’ search for God and his conclusion that if we are created in his image what a sorry deity He is indeed (paraphrasing). Joseph exceeded most people’s image of a god conceived in the lowly reaches of fear and ignorance. The story’s twists of fate and willful endeavors of his brother to foist an image of a vengeful god on Joseph brought into sharp relief the one in tune and flow with life and nature and the other strapped to the limitations of narrow conventions hewn from that very fear of not daring to challenge them.

To A God Unknown Captures the Human Soul

To a God Unknown Captures the Human Soul and traditions as closely as humanly possible.

Sadness

Nobody tells sadness, loss, depravation, pathos like Steinbeck. I’ve read most of Steinbeck but had missed this. A treasure.

Solid narration.