When I learned that it was going to be released as a movie,
I was thrilled. I enjoyed the book immensely and it opened my eyes to a lot of
things and made me think about things in ways that I never thought of before.
And because it had been a while since I had originally read it, I wanted to
read it again prior to seeing the movie, so I did. Because I enjoyed the book so much, after I read it the first
time, I started to share my feelings about the book with others and I encouraged
my friends to read it as well. What I didn’t expect was a little bit of a
backlash I got from some of my close friends for reading the book. Why? Because
it is not written from a Catholic perspective and because the story doesn’t
follow the Doctrine of Catholic teaching, it is looked on by some as something
to avoid.