Reviews for The Last Day

The average rating for The Last Day based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-01 00:00:00 Shirley Carr My favorite quotes: "Is there anything we want as much as for the dead to be able to see us?" - Pg. 29 "Words are like a shield sometimes to protect what's under them. Maybe that's why I like poetry, where words are weapons and wounds both." - Pg. 55 " 'My father's a vet [veterinarian:],' I say, 'who hunts.'...'I never really got it'...'I'd watch him taking care of animals. So gentle. Then he'd go out and shoot them. Talk about a contradiction. Do you know what I mean?' 'My father's the same way,' Jesus says." - Pg. 76-77 "Words are the imagination made visible, the way that human beings are God mad visible." - Pg. 107 "Mr. Smith read me and Bethie a poem by Lord Byron called 'Euthanasia.' He said it was one of the rare poems about death that wasn't an attempt to seduce a woman by telling her how little time we have on earth. Instead, it was an attempt to seduce the reader. Not with love. With death. The poem says, whatever joys I've had, whatever I've been on earth, it's better to die and go back to 'the nothing that I was.'" - Pg. 125 "We weren't there to kill religious people. We were there to kill people who use religion to kill people." - Pg. 157 "We all come from One. The whole world is in the face of one child. Any child." - Pg. 188 "I like contradictions. If we didn't have contradiction, how could we want to kill people and save people at the same time? How could God be God?" - Pg. 191 "My tears light up her hair like diamonds." - Pg. 197 "Our children are what we disappear into before we disappear into God." - Pg. 223 "The ocean waves breathe against the shore. In and out. You think they maybe keep the Earth alive and it would suffocate without them." - Pg. 270

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-22 00:00:00 Geir A Moa This book has been (wrongly) compared to Young's "The Shack" in many reviews. If that is what you're expecting, you will not enjoy this book. It is not "The Shack" and does not pretend to be. "The Shack" is politically correct and neatly wrapped up in happy emotions. "The Last Day" is not. "The Last Day" is a glimpse inside of a man's mind when he has experienced love and loss and has attempted to shut out the world. It is not politically correct -- in fact there are many passages that most people would find offensive. It is not wrapped up in a neat little happy ending. This book is a journey all its own. Now, if you can read this novel for what it is, without having to compare it to another novel in which the only thing they have in common is that the protagonist talks to God, it is a good book. Landis has a simple yet beautiful writing style, and the story is easy to read. The main character is one that most readers probably cannot relate to, since most of us will never enter the military. However, he is still a believable character and becomes more and more engaging as the story progresses. His journey with Jesus is very personal -- and that is important for the reader to remember. Not everyone views Jesus in the same way, and many will probably be offended by the way he is represented in this book -- just your average guy that likes walking on the beach and eating cheeseburgers. He also avoids tough theological questions, but never deviates from the journey of faith. Faith, perhaps, is the cornerstone on which this story is built.