Returned from holiday feeling quite alienated from reading and as a result struggled to get into this book (I must index this list as I am sure that I read this within the last 12 months and reacted quite differently to it).
This time I found it difficult, have forgotten the extent not focussed on the priest, and very bleak. The priest is a failure as a priest as we all are as men; none of the other characters are remotely appealing.
I enjoyed the passage where the priest treks (well on his mule) through the jungle accompanied by the Judas figure beggar most, possibly the longest bit of continuous focussed narrative.
Greene is nonetheless a great writer.
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