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« Reply #1320 on: April 26, 2010, 01:14:53 PM » |
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I read some descriptions about that book online. I'd like to read it, but our library doesn't have it and I'm not sure I want to read it enough to buy it. Did you find it to be worthwhile?
i think it was well worth the read. i got it really cheap so i wouldn't have been out a lot anyways, but it was a good read and gave plenty to chew on for someone in ministry like me. |
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« Reply #1321 on: April 28, 2010, 09:42:06 AM » |
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Jonathan Acuff - Stuff Christians Like
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« Reply #1322 on: April 29, 2010, 02:47:24 PM » |
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Make Poverty Personal by Ash Barker
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« Reply #1323 on: May 05, 2010, 09:27:17 AM » |
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unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity...and Why It Matters - David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons
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« Reply #1324 on: May 05, 2010, 11:19:09 AM » |
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Plan B by Pete Wilson
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« Reply #1325 on: May 22, 2010, 11:52:13 PM » |
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Cheating Death, Stealing Life by Eddie Guerrero
The Blindside:The Evolution of The Game by Michael Lewis
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Living outloud.
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Life is too short live it all out for The Lord and enjoy yourself in the process. You only have one life so there is no use in being miserable.
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« Reply #1326 on: May 28, 2010, 09:53:32 AM » |
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What is God Really Like? (Edited by Craig Groeschel, with chapters by Francis Chan, Mark Batterson, John Burke, Craig Groeschel, Andy Stanley, Steven Furtick, Perry Noble, and others)
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« Reply #1327 on: May 28, 2010, 12:21:54 PM » |
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re-read Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
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« Reply #1328 on: May 28, 2010, 03:04:33 PM » |
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re-read Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
My experience with Card's Ender books was as follows: Ender's Game: Blew my mind, loved it Speaker for the Dead: Loved the first half or so, but it kind of petered out (no pun intended) Xenocide: Couldn't really even get into it I kind of want to give the series a go again to see if my opinions will have changed since I first read the books about ten years ago, but I already have an imposing stack of books I need to finish first before I take on any more. |
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« Reply #1329 on: May 28, 2010, 03:41:12 PM » |
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Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeschel
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« Reply #1330 on: May 29, 2010, 04:32:00 PM » |
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My experience with Card's Ender books was as follows:
Ender's Game: Blew my mind, loved it
Speaker for the Dead: Loved the first half or so, but it kind of petered out (no pun intended)
Xenocide: Couldn't really even get into it
I kind of want to give the series a go again to see if my opinions will have changed since I first read the books about ten years ago, but I already have an imposing stack of books I need to finish first before I take on any more.
The later Ender books are VERY different from Ender's Game, so that makes sense. When I first read them (also about 10 years ago) I liked the later books significantly less than the first, but in retrospect I might like them as much or more (definitely completely different approaches though). |
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« Reply #1331 on: May 30, 2010, 08:29:39 AM » |
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Outlive Your Life--Max Lucado
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« Reply #1332 on: June 04, 2010, 09:13:04 AM » |
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Chazown--Craig Groeschel
Exponential--Dave and John Ferguson
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« Reply #1333 on: June 12, 2010, 02:44:58 PM » |
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Radical by David Platt
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« Reply #1334 on: June 20, 2010, 09:29:21 PM » |
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Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
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« Reply #1335 on: June 23, 2010, 08:44:48 PM » |
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We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel According to U2--Greg Garrett
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« Reply #1336 on: June 25, 2010, 10:02:30 AM » |
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Transformational Church by Thom Rainer and Ed Stetzer
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« Reply #1337 on: June 29, 2010, 08:46:19 PM » |
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Viral Churches by Ed Stetzer
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« Reply #1338 on: June 29, 2010, 11:00:20 PM » |
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The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard.
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« Reply #1339 on: June 30, 2010, 01:41:52 AM » |
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The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard.
I read that book last year and really liked it. I'll probably read it again sometime. Currently, I'm reading Why Truth Matters by Opelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom. |
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« Reply #1340 on: July 04, 2010, 04:08:56 PM » |
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And by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
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« Reply #1341 on: August 01, 2010, 07:57:18 AM » |
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Coming Back Stronger--Drew Brees
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« Reply #1342 on: August 01, 2010, 02:12:41 PM » |
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Coming Back Stronger--Drew Brees
I saw an interview with him before the Super Bowl along with one of those featurettes about his career, and it seems like he's the real deal. It sounds like the Saints really did take a chance on him, and boy did it pan out. |
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« Reply #1343 on: August 09, 2010, 10:13:00 PM » |
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« Reply #1344 on: October 02, 2010, 02:45:28 PM » |
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Sun Stand Still--Steven Furtick
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« Reply #1345 on: October 20, 2010, 12:28:42 AM » |
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Infinite Ascent: a short history of mathematics -- David Berlinski
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« Reply #1346 on: November 16, 2010, 08:01:27 AM » |
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Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers--Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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« Reply #1347 on: December 04, 2010, 12:45:18 PM » |
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Uncommon--Tony Dungy
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« Reply #1348 on: December 10, 2010, 10:57:46 AM » |
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Fresh Start by Doug Fields
The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons
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« Reply #1349 on: December 16, 2010, 10:09:56 AM » |
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Gazelles, Baby Steps and 37 Other Things Dave Ramsey Taught Me About Debt--Jon Acuff
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« Reply #1350 on: December 22, 2010, 07:58:57 AM » |
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« Reply #1351 on: December 25, 2010, 12:31:35 AM » |
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« Reply #1352 on: December 28, 2010, 07:39:03 PM » |
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Church Planter: The Man, The Message, the Mission--Darrin Patrick
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« Reply #1353 on: January 10, 2011, 01:30:49 PM » |
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To Transform a City--Eric Swanson and Sam Williams
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« Reply #1354 on: January 17, 2011, 09:20:19 PM » |
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« Reply #1355 on: February 08, 2011, 05:14:58 PM » |
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Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana by Dan Woolley
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« Reply #1356 on: February 09, 2011, 04:17:26 PM » |
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« Reply #1357 on: February 27, 2011, 09:27:20 PM » |
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« Reply #1358 on: March 20, 2011, 09:12:10 PM » |
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I just finished The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Sherlock Holmes, and then found out that there is a book which argues that Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conclusions and drove an innocent man to his death, and that Conan Doyle was in that novel expressing his hatred of Sherlock Holmes. |
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« Reply #1359 on: March 21, 2011, 10:32:39 AM » |
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So is the book claiming that Doyle intentionally hid a gaffe by Holmes because of his dislike of the character, or that Doyle himself was unintentionally (subconsciously?) wrong?
Hound was written in 1902, so it's entirely possible that by this point Doyle had already begun his hatred and resentment of Holmes and his popularity. However, few of his writings suggest, at least to me, that Sir Arthur possessed the necessary subtlety and restraint to place an extended middle finger in one of his works and to hide it so brilliantly that it would go largely unnoticed for over a hundred years. The only support I can see for this thesis is in deconstructionism, that Doyle himself subconsciously included these errors in deduction without intending the outcome to be at all ambiguous.
Since I have little use for literary deconstructionists, I will ignore this hypothesis with unrestrained force.
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