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i didn't care for anything but Kavalier and Klay, but i haven't read his new one. Wonder Boys was awful.
American Gods was great.
i didn't care for anything but Kavalier and Klay, but i haven't read his new one. Wonder Boys was awful.
Try The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Of course, you can just bring your Gameboy.
First, let me state that I am not Mormon, nor do I condone or believe most of their practices, but if you are going to knock a religion, at least be factful about it. Under the banner of heaven is written from the perspective of a quack FUNDAMENTALIST (splinter group) LDS group not mainstream Mormonism. Remember the guy written about in the book was EXCOMMUNICATED from the Mormon church. This is like blasting Seventh Day Adventists for being Branch Davidians... which they weren't and aren't.
the dangerous days of daniel x
by james patterson
I disagree. It isn't written from anybody's perspective per se. Rather, it examines the FLDS faith and that of regular mormonism as well. Both of them extensively, because well, although they are seperate groups today, their histories are intertwined and any decent examination of the FLDS demands an examination of mainstream mormonism as well.
Quite frankly the FLDS are not some quack splinter group; FLDS is basically mormonism in it's original form. If anything, mainstream mormonism is a splinter group of FLDS and this book goes into a lot of detail about the history and relationship between said "religions".
Anyway, the central point of the book is that it looks to both groups as a means to show how easily kook religions can turn people into fundamentalist murderers.
I like it because I'm full on bigoted in a Hitleresque way about mormonism and while this book is more about religious extremism than anything else, in reaching it's conclusions, it completely dismantles the LDS faith and its FLDS counterpart. I find that gratifying.
Try The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath.
Try The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Is this a joke?
Who would want to read about a book that says there is no God while in a hospital?
Get Dawkins and this McGrath guy out of here. Just a bunch of post-modern, wanna-be philosophical, divisive bull . These clowns have nothing to say that hasn't been said hundreds of years earlier and in much better ways by Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Pascal and St. Augustine.
Hitchens too.
Under The Banner Of Heaven bored the out of me. Into Thin Air and Into The Wild were much better efforts by Krakauer.
That's fuuny. I'm like the exact opposite. I read Into the Wild once years ago and I remember liking it, but I've tried to read Into Thin Air a few times now and I just can't get into it. It's odd because it's widely regarded as his best book, but damn, even though I'm big time into climbing and alpine adventure myself, something about it just bores the living out of me and I give up very early every time I attempt to read it.
Personally, I agree. That's why I try to limit my reading to Playboy and MotorTrend.
That is funny.
If you want to read something that truly is a mind and will stay with you long after you finish the book, pick up "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.
Yeah!
Good , that book looks crazy. I haven't read McCarthy before, but he sounds cool. Thx for the tip.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
good enough for a hospital stay.
get well soon.
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