Comments on: Book Review: The Source, by James A. Michener (1965)

By: Morris Steen

Morris Steen — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:33:37 +0000

You cannot read Michener and end your life uneducated. He is a crucial link in learning how the world is stitched together, and I appreciate him more with each advancing year. If this current breed of smart diplomats in Washington, DC , and Russia, had read Caravans, Afghanistan would be a different place today!

By: Kay Kottso Deech

Kay Kottso Deech — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:32:34 +0000

I read it in the 70s. It made me a Zionist.
But subsequent events in the middle-east have completely reversed my affinity for the Jewish state.

By: Holly Louise

Holly Louise — Mon, 04 May 2020 02:03:01 +0000

In reply to Linda-Kim Duffey. His books are novels. They are not history books. Michener doesn't "falsify facts" and in particular, right in the beginning of "Texas" he explains what is fiction and what are true events in the book.

By: Helene Messina

Helene Messina — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:44:02 +0000

In reply to Aisling. I too read it in my teens (for pleasure not assigned). Will reread now at age 66 so I can re-appreciate from a different perspective.

By: John Nebauer

John Nebauer — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:26:35 +0000

Excellent review. I read it whilst my wife and I were on a study tour of Israel and Jordan (she’s doing a Masters in Theology) and felt dismayed reading the hope for peaceful coexistence whilst passing through checkpoints to Bethlehem.

By: Linda-Kim Duffey

Linda-Kim Duffey — Fri, 26 May 2017 13:00:41 +0000

I have read several other James Michener books and there is a little falsifying of facts, especially the book, Texas. good read but not much accuracy. History can be changed by someone writing down fictional facts for true facts. that is my concern. I love Jewish history and to read about the land of my Savior’s birth but I want it to be true.

By: Charles Shapiro

Charles Shapiro — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 02:22:05 +0000

I liked your review, and glad you mentioned the depiction of the male-female relationships. I was taken aback by how modern the ones depicted seemed to be. They seemed to be independent and acted on their own.

By: peter troy

peter troy — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 10:31:27 +0000

See Naples before you die! Yep did that.
So glad to have discovered ‘The Source’ as well, but at seventy seven wish I had unearthed it earlier. It puts my life (so far) into perspective.
Will I lose my no claims bonus?
How much sugar in this biscuit?
OMG!

Peter Troy

By: Amelia Teresa Mc Queen

Amelia Teresa Mc Queen — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:38:41 +0000

I enjoyed The source, and learnt a lot about the Jewish and Chritian religions. I’m a Christian myself.

By: Carl Rosenberg

Carl Rosenberg — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:05:29 +0000

I enjoyed this review, and wouldn’t mind reading the novel itself. But regarding the reviewer’s comment about it being “one-sidely pro-Zionist” in depicting the events of 1948, I wouldn’t expect much else from a popular novel published in English in 1965.