One of the longest, but also one of the best, books I’ve ever read. The Source follows a single lineage of people in the Levant, from the beginning of the Neolithic, around 10,000 years ago, to the 1960s. Alongside them you follow the beginnings of religious thought, until it becomes incipient Judaism, and onward through all its growing pains and offshoots to the modern day. The book is framed like a novella, but in this case they are all connected and based on the foundations of the previous stories. Because of this the plot does not always need to be pushed forward, and most of the length is focused on the day-to-day life that took place at the given time. The breaking up of the story keeps it from being exhaustive, and each section is just as interesting as the next. In the end, if the first sentence of the synopsis sounding intriguing, I highly recommend it. 9.5/10.