I really loved The Gospel According to Larry and Vote for Larry, both inspiring stories about Josh, a kid with an unbelievable zest for changing the world, pacifism, activism, environmentalism, and anti-consumerism. They’re both pretty cool books with a message and a good story. This latest book definitely has a cool story and a good message, but it just wasn’t as good as the first two and it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Basically Josh is in a funk and decides to follow a guru named Gus he met at Walden Pond. By the way, I enjoyed the bits about Walden, Thoreau, and Gandhi. Also, I love the structure of the book-first, that the story was given to the author Janet by this real person, Josh, and second that there are many many conversational footnotes. Read the rest of this entry »
