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Title: Good book; weak ending
Review: I enjoyed watching the vignettes of broken lives getting restored as people saw or met The Man Who Listens. The technique of having the characters unwittingly ask questions that reveal attributes of the Man, are also powerful, at least the first few times this technique is used. The person who wrote this book clearly must have been a reflective observer of humanity.However, I was most disappointed by the ending. After going through a litany of 14 individuals whose lives have been warped by their own or others' evil, the author constructs an ending that would require people choosing to do good! Nevertheless, I did enjoy the flavor of the ending, and how it reflected the Cold War era in which it was written (1961).
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