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Review title: Misses the Mark
Product review: This book wants to be about man's search for God, or God's search for man. Shapero writes lyrically, with unrepentant paganism, of the natural world and of the god who permeates it, but he never reconciles the two faces of animus - the spirit which brings life, and deep-seated resentment and hostility.His protagonist is either the first Messiah of the New Millenium, or a brain-burned Berkely dropout whose self-centered journey toward shamanism ends up destroying not only himself but all those who love him and trust him and believe in him. I tend to lean toward the latter. Bob Dylan told us a long time ago - a saviour's a nuisance to live with at home.Sam becomes Ransom - and a ransom is something you pay, something you surrender, to redeem that which is precious to you. Sam becomes Ransom - a ransom, *the* ransom -- but what does he redeem? Shapero never manages to make that clear -- and that's the failure of the book.
