QBVII
So I've been on a pseudo Leon Uris binge lately (pseudo in that this is my third Uris since Christmas, depressing considdering I used to knock out 2 novels a week).
I absolutely adore his writing. It's historical fiction, always somehow rotating around the Jews and/or Israel (in the 40's). He likes to present two sides of a story, or more accurately, two characters at odds with each other. He spends the first part of the book detailing the lives and backgrounds of each character, each in a positive light, before dropping the characters on the proverbial battleground.
The character depth and development Uris has is quite amazing and rare in books these days.
I do however dislike how he ended "A God In Ruins." What was a good book became very rushed and extremely preachy at the end. While I respect his opinions, I have a distaste for authors that blatantly push their opinions on you. An author should be sublime with his indoctrinations, he should cause you to feel the emotion he feels and hopefully have you come to the same decision as he did. Sadly, all he did for the last hundred pages was all of a sudden push gun control like it was crack, despite the fact that the novel had no emotional construct for such decision (e.g. a beloved character killed by loose guns, etc.). I'd like to say it's my personal views on gun control that cause me to have this rift with the book, but sadly I cannot.
Otherwise he is an amazing author, "The Haj" was an amazing book, and I have to finish QBVII.
