Within Waiting For The Last Bus is sound advice, though never dogmatically presented, on how to handle large life problems and how to keep perspective. Holloway looks at those of us who are focused on living a good life and those of us who are more concerned with heading to the afterlife, exploring the part religion plays in that. Holloway even talks about those who believe they have come back from the brink of death, doing so in a thoughtful and sympathetic manner. Of course we can't know for sure about the opposite, which Holloway acknowledges, but he explains how dominant death is in his thoughts and contemplates the afterlife. Using anecdotes and beautiful examples, drawn from fiction and philosophy, Holloway gets to the very crux of what it means to be alive. The necessity we often feel to view things in binary terms, and the limitations of doing so, is a theme he frequently returns to in the text. He explores the big questions and faces his own uncertainties. He considers what it means to have lived a good life and how people manage their worries of the afterlife.
With searing honesty, Richard Holloway grapples with his religious beliefs and doubts.
It is insightful, intelligent, humble and thoughtful. Waiting for the Last Bus is a wonderful book.
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