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« Reply #1400 on: January 09, 2012, 06:15:23 PM » |
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"When we spend so much time promoting everything we're against that the message of who we are for gets lost, when Christians are putting everyone else down, how is Jesus lifted up in that?." Doug Fields
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« Reply #1401 on: January 09, 2012, 09:42:57 PM » |
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I didn't type "I am disagreeing with the author's point which you introduced but I don't necessarily think you yourself are a proponent of that point" because I thought it was understood, but I'm sorry if it wasn't.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #1402 on: January 10, 2012, 07:12:39 PM » |
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Interesting. Have we figured out why Totoro is fat yet?
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Enjoy our pub. user/pw: thephorum Follow me on Grooveshark or Spotify. username: iceybloop |
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« Reply #1403 on: January 10, 2012, 07:24:39 PM » |
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I think it's all very boring. (the leaf makes him look fat.)
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« Reply #1404 on: January 13, 2012, 07:27:06 PM » |
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Reading Neal Stephenson's Reamde. This one's a very much a thriller. Little less geeky side trips, more action. I'll let you decide if you like that or not.
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« Reply #1405 on: January 14, 2012, 01:47:52 AM » |
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Jesus+Nothing=Everything by Tullian Tchavidjian
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« Reply #1406 on: January 14, 2012, 02:22:49 PM » |
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Reading Neal Stephenson's Reamde. This one's a very much a thriller. Little less geeky side trips, more action. I'll let you decide if you like that or not.
What other Stephenson have you read? Is it similar to Snow Crash in pace? |
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« Reply #1407 on: January 19, 2012, 11:00:16 AM » |
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What other Stephenson have you read? Is it similar to Snow Crash in pace?
I've read Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle. I haven't read Snow Crash, but my Dad says this one is more similar in pace to Snow Crash. For a 1000 page novel, it moves FAST. I enjoyed it, though I've seen some online reviews who didn't like that it was a more "accessible" read with fewer tangents into math, philosophy, etc. To me it reads as a sly nod to "life as a video game" which makes sense given the settings. |
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« Reply #1408 on: January 19, 2012, 02:46:16 PM » |
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« Reply #1409 on: January 19, 2012, 03:38:52 PM » |
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For a 1000 page novel, it moves FAST.
Oh, geez, another tome then. I started reading Anathem over Christmas, but only finished about half of it. I was hoping to finish the rest in Florida, but I was too busy not being a shutin (lame, I know). Since I rarely read weighty books except on vacation, I will likely let it sit for a depressingly long time. (It's really good, though.) |
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« Reply #1410 on: January 27, 2012, 12:35:24 AM » |
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The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
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« Reply #1411 on: January 27, 2012, 06:07:30 PM » |
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I've read a lot of books since the last time I posted here, but right now I'm reading The Bhagavad Gita.
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« Reply #1412 on: January 30, 2012, 11:42:12 AM » |
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« Reply #1413 on: February 02, 2012, 01:49:13 PM » |
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« Reply #1414 on: February 06, 2012, 01:47:33 PM » |
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« Reply #1415 on: February 06, 2012, 04:39:38 PM » |
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Re-read my copy of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, so I could more effectively gripe at the various adaptations for being flawed with respect to the originals. The introduction to the edition I have describes the stories as "pure anesthesia", which is a great description (for some reason mystery stories fulfill this purpose in my library, which would be why I own 37 books by Rex Stout). I don't find them to break any especial literary ground, but they're a lot of fun, fast-paced, and easy on the brain.
This is my second time through the whole collection, and for some anthologies and novels it is my third or fourth time for those specific books.
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« Reply #1416 on: February 06, 2012, 11:22:13 PM » |
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Did you notice any internal inconsistencies? Any idea how many wives Watson had?  |
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« Reply #1417 on: February 07, 2012, 08:33:39 AM » |
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There are quite a number of inconsistencies, actually. Watson is never quite sure where the bullet hit him in the war...was it the leg or the shoulder? His name also seems to change, as he is usually introduced as John H. Watson, but his first wife called him James (in the introduction to one of my editions the writer and Holmes scholar posited that the H stands for Hamish, a Scottish variant on James. To be fair to Doyle, this could merely be unexplained rather than an inconsistency). And of course the dates and years given are almost entirely rubbish, not even being internally consistent (much like the stardates given at the beginning of some Star Trek episodes, if you try to create a coherent timeline you are forced to assume that Holmes had the powers of teleportation and of bending spacetime to his whim...obviously, then, Sherlock Holmes is a Time Lord) and often stating, for example, that a date which is definitively a Tuesday happened on a Saturday.
Regarding Watson's wives, as you mention, he meets his first wife in The Sign of the Four and marries her in canon. It is mentioned in the first story of The Return of Sherlock Holmes ("The Empty House") that his wife died somehow, probably so Doyle has to stop writing around the fact that Watson was a practicing physician with a life of his own and could only occasionally join Holmes on his jaunts. However, in some later stories (which ostensibly occur after the return) he appears to have remarried. And of course, some claim that he had a number of wives (Mary Morston Watson, the one he marries in canon, is supposedly an orphan, but Doyle sends her off to be with her mother at one point so Watson can get away on a jaunt with Holmes). The insinuation in "The Empty House" is that he has only had the one wife in all that time, because otherwise it wouldn't make as much sense for him to refer to her the way he did after her death. In fact, I haven't played with the dates and chronology myself, but it may be possible to assume that the stories in which Watson's wife mysteriously reappears are in fact pre-Return stories, and he was thus only married once).
Most of these inconsistencies, by the way, are slyly poked at and lampshaded by the recent BBC production Sherlock.
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« Reply #1418 on: February 07, 2012, 09:09:07 AM » |
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My preferred explanation is that Watson had two wives, Mary Morstan and then the one Holmes refers to in "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier." I just read a rather compelling argument that this wife was in fact Mrs. Hudson, the landlady. That could help explain why Sherlock left Baker Street for Sussex.
The discrepancy about Watson's wife being an orphan versus going to visit her mother was too early to be explained by this, as it was written before Sherlock's supposed death (so a mere mixing up of dates does not solve this.) Perhaps it was referring not to her actual mother but to some type of maternal figure, such as the woman she lived with when she met Watson.
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« Reply #1419 on: February 07, 2012, 10:44:04 AM » |
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Doyle is on record saying that he didn't spend a lot of time worrying about details.
Interestingly, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels and novellas suffer from the same problems. Stout can't seem to remember the name of Wolfe's lawyer between stories (it's usually Nat Parker, but sometimes it inexplicably becomes Henry Parker, I believe), the street address of the old brownstone seems to change from time to time, and even Wolfe's weight (given as a seventh of a ton) doesn't seem all that egregious given his height (six feet, as I recall), despite the fact that it is nearly always given as his most prominent feature.
We all suffer from lapses in attention to detail from time to time, and I suspect the only reason I can think myself any better than these luminaries is because I haven't written anything so universally beloved as to have been pored over by hundreds of millions of readers over the years.
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« Reply #1420 on: February 11, 2012, 08:24:21 PM » |
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Rumors of God--Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson
What is the Mission of the Church?--Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
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« Reply #1421 on: February 11, 2012, 10:48:51 PM » |
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That Bonhoeffer biography by Eric Metaxas.
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« Reply #1422 on: February 12, 2012, 01:27:18 PM » |
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I was curious and googled the title. ugh.
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« Reply #1423 on: February 13, 2012, 02:45:07 PM » |
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I was curious and googled the title. ugh.
The book is really oriented towards the kind of dramatism that the title might imply. It reads like a novel. I'm not convinced Metaxas did much research into Bonhoeffer's theology, as he seems to misrepresent it, and and those of Bonhoeffer's perceived 'opponents', at any chance he gets. |
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« Reply #1424 on: February 14, 2012, 01:58:55 PM » |
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The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine--A.W. Tozer
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« Reply #1425 on: February 27, 2012, 07:45:02 PM » |
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« Reply #1426 on: February 27, 2012, 10:11:10 PM » |
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« Reply #1427 on: March 10, 2012, 05:30:19 PM » |
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Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Epidemic of Burnout--Anne Jackson
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« Reply #1428 on: April 25, 2012, 10:35:13 AM » |
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Explicit Gospel--Matt Chandler
Traveling Mercies--Anne Lamott
Plan B--Anne Lamott
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