Madison Alexander

Some of the reviews below are very worrying (though one anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi review has been thankfully removed). This is such a beautiful book with deeply relatable and important themes that I will be thinking about for years to come. Many of the other reviewers have described it as boring. To that I will say: it is on the long side for a book in which not many major events happen, but it is not at all "boring" - in fact, it's more far engaging than I expected! - and it is definitely worth the read. The quotes in it alone could teach us all quite a bit. “Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life." - David Malter in The Chosen I recommend this book to everyone, including - maybe especially? - those who expect it to be an uninteresting book that drags on and on. You won't regret it!