Simona's Reviews > Their Solitary Way

I really loved this book. Hard to put down. Most of us today lead a life with variety in it. Life where we can move from task to task, we can spend our time in many different ways. Well, the father in this book would call all of that distractions and thought it best to raise his children in the middle of a forest with nothing but books and their own mind to keep their company. A life where it is not customary to talk with other people at all. Little bit like monks.

I am a little fascinated with this kind of single-mindedness. I like to cultivate it (to some small extent) in my life. What would it do to a person to be thrown in a pit of solitude with nothing but their own mind(and a limitless library)? Would it make the person extraordinary in what they set out to do? Yes, likely. Would it screw them up for the rest of their life? Yes, certainly, in a way.

Two issues with this book:

Quite a few spelling errors(that look like an auto-correct).

The book description on GR absolutely spoils everything in the book, for the love of God, who wrote that!