Fear and Trembling Book

Dear reader,

you don't even read this stuff anymore, do you?! i wouldn't if i were you! but that's the difference between me and you! you have no life, are pathetic, sit in front of your computer all day stalking your peers on various social networking sites, while i go on constantly mocking your efforts through half jest and utter disregard for the values you hold dear to your heart!

alas, perhaps the joke is on me?!

haha, boy do i get ahead of myself sometimes! silly me! yes, that is what i say! i say, "silly me!" and i sit in the bathtub at night and i make tiny little cuts into the backs of my thighs and the bottom of my feet! the pain let's me know i am alive! anywho! today's book is a classic by the greatly pathetic soren kierkegaard, entitled "fear and trembling: who let the dogs out?" ok let's go!


REVIEW:

one could easily argue that the central thesis of this book is the idea that "faith begins precisely where reason ends."
kierkegaard struggles with faith, simultaneously demonstrating that it is impossible to successfully rationalize faith (i.e., give any kind of logical explanation of it), just as it is impossible to achieve faith by way of reason.
another highlight is the four alternative retellings of the story of abraham and isaac, which are truly a mindfuck.


VERDICT:

in my supremely accurate and overwhelmingly insightful opinion, this book is most important as a device by which to make people at least recognize, and hopefully respect, the great personal struggle and triumph that is religious faith. too many people in this generation, it seems, write religion off without even knowing why they do so, other than that it doesn't agree with what science dictates. kierkegaard here demonstrates the difference and mutual exclusiveness of the two, and thus that it is possible to love and respect both. lol!