In common with another McCullough’s book, A Creed for the Third Millennium, the heading alluded to a form of allegory of the human condition. That’s what I went through while trying to pick up a book which would live up to the grandeur of “Pillars of the Earth” eventually, I chose “The Thorn Birds”, owing to my parents’ suggestion and its peculiarly metaphoric title. Whenever I reach the end of a story I had been avidly reading, I can’t help but feel some sort of book hangover. I have started to write this review just a couple of hours after I finished reading this much beloved novel. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”Ĭolleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds (1977) Don’t you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. “Everyone singing his own little song convinced it’s the most wonderful song the world has ever heard.
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