Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Awful, yet artistic.
A play from the 1950's. I thought it would be interesting to read it while preparing an advent sermon on our waiting for Christ to come.
I gave it 1 star for its worldview, and an extra one for the ways he asserts ideas through simple and entertaining story. The ideas are all wrong, but they are the ideas our world has largely come to believe, so it's an important book to read.
The wrong ideas:
Life is uncertain.
We are bored with it, resigned to it, sick of it, afraid of it.
God(ot) keeps saying he will show up, but he doesn't. We wait.
There's no meaning. We are born and die and the world turns.
If God doesn't show up, suicide is really the only option. We can't go on like this. We've tried everything to save ourselves. He is our only hope.
Interesting that this last point is actually true. How depressing to believe it, and also believe God isn't coming.
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