okay so I finished it, I know I haven't posted on it yet, but I read fast. Anyway, this book follows the life of Eric Poole, an 8 to 15 year old struggling with his belief in god and magic. Okay, so he stars out, in the 60's in church, listening to all of these amazing tales of goe, and believing all of them, I am no atheist but I wonder why they (the church would feel it's okay to force a kid to believe something, he thought he could do magic by dressing up like a character in the old t.v. show bewitched, now of course he grew out of this but, the church really forced him to think it was their way or the highway.
I also think that the way his parents behave is interesting, more specifically, is mom and his moms mom, or his grandmother. I think his mom who acts like a total neat/control freak does so because her mother was so the opposite, and I feel while that is not necessarily the best way to be, it is complexity normal, and I feel alot of people tend to gravitate toward who their parents aren't.
Another theme in this book is loss of innocence. He thinks that he is magic and that everything will last forever, but it won't, things don't happen like that, and that is his major discovery throughout the plot of the story, that you can't be a child forever, however much you'd like to be.
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