Reviews

BOOK ENDORSEMENTS AND REVIEWS

“You had my undivided attention starting with the first page! What a fantastic writing style; not just an ordinary prose, but a captivating, descriptive and at times poetic musings added greatly to the overall feeling of being there with you and experiencing what you were feeling. Your knowledge of psychology and your analytical abilities only enhanced the whole experience. After reading your adventurous and at times tumultuous and humbly honest accounts of your life I feel that I know you a lot better and appreciate your zeal for life and later causes you had been so passionate about.” - Eva Podrow

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“Wonderful book! Couldn’t put it down! Made me cry.” – CK

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“I was captivated by the book. It took me back to my childhood back east and I think it will take a lot of people back to their childhood. The style reminded me of Stephen Leacock’s: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912). Other people my age have said the same thing when they read it. This book is not about you! What is it about? THE LORD, the lies of our society and the followers of indoctrination systems (Fascism, Communism).” - Astley Cooper

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". . . Mr. Neill's writing is very articulate, and he particularly excels when he is describing nature, whether camping at Green Drop Lake in the dead of winter or scuba diving in Jamaica. I believe he would be a wonderful adventure writer. His descriptions are poetic and have the ability to draw the reader easily into the situation. . . His desire to be of service leads him to unlikely places such as Kosovo, Jamaica, and a few stints in the Israeli army. I was hoping for more insight as to how these assignments appealed so greatly to him and what was the motivation to take them on. I was also hoping for a some additional insight as to how his radical ideas were transformed into his desire to follow Jesus. One other minor criticism is the fact that I found the flow of the book a bit jagged, a bit of jumping back and forth with some minor repetition and events happening out of sequence. At the end of the book he reveals that he has been journaling almost all his life. Perhaps he has taken many journal entries and tied them together." - TF (see complete review here: A Most Interesting Life)

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"In a way, this book is difficult to review—because I can’t make up my mind whether to focus on the amazing story he tells, or on how well he tells it. Passages reminded me of Hemmingway—the power in his choice of words, the economy of language… Roger Neill is a good writer. But then, he also has an exceptional story to tell: the evocative recollections of his New Brunswick childhood; his (thankfully) brief flirtation with Marxism; his candid and self-critical appraisal of his careers, both in academe and in business; the agony of his divorce; the redemption of his transition into faith; and the manifestation of that faith in service to others, as a social worker, as a Third-World volunteer, and as a Gentile volunteer in the IDF’s Sar-el brigade (two hitches, in the book—although a friend of his later told me that Roger had done a third stint with the IDF). But perhaps best of all, his amazing story is told with humility, and with gratitude to God for both the hard and good times… and that’s what gives Revolution in Mind its over-arching theme: hope. It’s a read that left me feeling good." — Ron Gray