A review by kcnoun
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère

3.0

i found this book to be often fascinating, deeply informative, and consistently entertaining. the premise of "a formerly devout religious man writes an entire history of the religion and gradually becomes terrified he still believes" is really cool too. that being said, this is so incredibly self-indulgent and in love with itself that it's hard to really connect with on more than a superficial level. the blend of nonfiction and fiction also doesn't do anything for me aside from cause confusion; i don't know what he's making up or what's real and i don't really care either. there are some details in this about the author, that, actually, i really didn't need to know about! it's fine