05-15-2017, 12:13 AM | #33 |
Demiurge
Join Date: Aug 2005
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just finished it. I had read 2/3rds of it back in the days of this thread. I recently started from the beginning.
I bogged down in the middle (again). On all the doctrinal exposition. I come out of this book feeling like I don't have a super great handle on what Joseph Smith the man was like. I feel like I know the rough outlines. But I don't know him intimately or well. And I'm okay with that. I don't know most people well. Especially people whom I've never met from a different age. Perhaps the great story hidden in all of this is the story between Joseph and Emma. But we'll never know that story. It's hidden and personal. I think it's definitely a book worth reading. Like it says on the cover, it's a cultural biography. It's placing the life of Joseph Smith in a time and a place. |
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