The Noticer

admit, I wasn’t sure about this book when I chose to read it, yet by the end of the first page I began to get the “warm fuzzies”. My first question was who is Jones? What does he represent? Well I still can’t answer my first question and I don’t think we’re supposed to be able to, and I’m not going to give you the answer to the second question as it would spoil your reading.

The mysterious Jones is ever present throughout the book, even when he isn’t actually mentioned by other characters. Though when he comes into contact with a troubled teenage boy, that boy holds Jones in his heart for the rest of his life. Jones involves himself in the lives of many others with issues real to us today. His role in that? Partly it is to challenge them to change; not only their behaviours or attitudes, but also their outlook on life and, more importantly, themselves.

With a useful chapter by chapter reading guide that can be used by individuals or reading groups, I found this to be a thought-provoking book. I discovered the message of the book only a few pages in – “we need to gather a little perspective”. Well, maybe we do.