[Borges]

Have you read The Prophet? I can’t imagine it appealing to anyone who isn’t a moody ‘sensitive’ 16 year old.

[Billthedrill]

Have you read The Prophet? I can’t imagine it appealing to anyone who isn’t a moody ‘sensitive’ 16 year old.

LOL! I read it at the same time I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Whuzzattellya?

[wideawake]

Have you read The Prophet? I can’t imagine it appealing to anyone who isn’t a moody ‘sensitive’ 16 year old.

As you know, I am a Roman Catholic.

For some reason, during the 80s and 90s every hippy-dippy 60s burnout priest or nun or "involved" layman I ever had to deal with in a formal extraliturgical setting invariably read aloud from The Prophet.

Prep class for the sacrament of confirmation? Sr. So-and-So begins class with a reading from The Prophet.

Fund raising drive for the foreign missions? Fr. So-and-So feels that a reading from The Prophet is appropriate to the occasion.

Mandatory pre-Cana marriage retreat? Why not have a series of readings from The Prophet?

Parish Youth Day? You guessed it.

Your description of the book is dead-on accurate. I've never actually bothered to read the book, but I am pretty sure at least a third of it has been read aloud to me without my permission, so I know it well.