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Meet the Grogans
Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy navigating his way through the seismic social upheaval of the 1960s. On the one side were his loving but comically traditional parents, whose expectations were clear. On the other were his neighborhood pals and all the misdeeds that followed. The more young John tried to straddle these two worlds, the more spectacularly, and hilariously, he failed. Told with Grogan's trademark humor and affection, The Longest Trip Home is the story of one son's journey into adulthood to claim his place in the world. It is a story of faith and reconciliation, breaking away and finding the way home again, and learning in the end that a family's love will triumph over its differences.
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Kyle Brundage
reviewed The Longest Trip Home on December 06, 2008
The Longest Trip Home
I loved Marley and Me--but this book was quite different. In fairness, I didn't get close to finishing it, but I could see this was not my type of book.
This book could be subtitled, "Catholic School Boys Behaving Badly". As a teacher and a parent, I can never enjoy seeing kids making bad choices.
As someone raised as a Catholic, and almost the same age as Grogan, I did laugh about lying in confession because I think that happened a lot. I don't know how the Catholic Church is managing confession these days, but Church leaders should read this book and make changes that would help religion to really be an effective, powerful, and positive force in the lives of its members.
I do know a lot of Catholics who are faithful members who really believe and their faith is a positive force in their lives. However, I have met many Catholics who just go through the motions without letting their faith/religion positively effect them. I always figured they were just checking things off of their to-do list to get into heaven. They could have so much more.
Growing up I saw a lot of Catholic School kids rebelling--just like John Grogan. It makes me wonder why? The only thing I can think of is that the kids never saw the love of Jesus Christ, but instead saw the lack of love in the actions of certain nuns. Hopefully, the Catholic Schools are doing better in showing and teaching Gospel love. Back in 1978 I taught in an intercity Catholic school and I loved everyone of my children and made sure they knew it. They loved me too. I thought the nuns there were really nice--the other teachers were too.
In this book, John Grogan was quick to take the Savior's name in vain. That is something I have never understood. If you are religious, why would you take the sacred name of the Lord in vain? Now, if you aren't religious, why would you even think to say his name?
So this book was just painful for me to read and so I just stopped reading.
Maybe in his next book, Grogan will write about his experience with organic gardening--now there is a topic I can really enjoy!
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