Plumb strips away our delusions of God-given moral superiority to expose the emptiness of contemporary American life and the dark powers of hatred and greed with which we deny that emptiness.
Stories of people who believe a book changed their life. It's a romantic notion, and one reason we believe it is because we want to believe our lives can be changed 由 something so simple as an idea — 或者 a set of ideas contained in a book.