Review: Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl My rating: 1 of 5 stars I have time now to grudge this hell of a book some of my vehement reflections. First, why all these reiterations of the same ideas, why frame them with the exact words over and over again? I would’ve made allowances if it is one giant tome —it is not, however, with its 180-odd pages lengthwise (but in terms of the stop-and-start reading experience, it is surely a big time-consumer and bootless distraction for me). I’d have frowned less if these ideas are of value, worthy of empatic repetitions—they are not, however, original or ground-breaking (and I, a non-Christian, have come to detect most of the doctrines to be from Jesus himself); in point of fact, it is the parading and touting them as new and salutary that tick me off. Frankle was clear and adamant in his conviction that life should be a quest for meaning, and he brushed off pleasure and power as a worthy object to be pu...