Re: What book are you reading? #4

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The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint and David Drake (Belisarius saga V)
 
Just finished “That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana” by Carlo Emilio Gadda-not a favorite.
I came home to my latest deliveries which included "Treasure and Tradition: the Ultimate Guide to the Latin Mass by Lisa Bergman. a quick skim has me looking forward to more.👍
 
In the middle of Peter Kreeft’s “Love is Stronger than Death” right now. So far really enjoying it, just like I have all his other books.

I love how he can take deep philosophical topics and make them accessible to the average reader.
 
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In the middle of Peter Kreeft’s “Love is Stronger than Death” right now. So far really enjoying it, just like I have all his other books.

I love how he can take deep philosophical topics and make them accessible to the average reader.
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Woah, that’s really funny, 'cos about a week ago I finished Love is Stronger than Death, by Cynthia Bourgeault.

A great book, by the way; I loved it.

amazon.com/Love-Stronger-than-Death-Mystical/dp/1939681359
 
I just finished “Lord of the World,” by Robert Hugh Benson. It was not an easy book for me to get through. For a novel which has been cited as prophetic by Pope Benedict and Pope Francis, I guess I expected a better read.

For a book about the anti-Christ, worldwide anti-Catholic persecution, the destruction of Rome, the establishment of a mandatory Humanist religion to replace Christianity, widespread euthanasia, the reduction of Catholicism to a remnant, and finally, the end of the world, it should have been a more exciting read. The story line was, in my view slowed down by unnecessarily turgid prose. The book was written in 1904, which perhaps explains something of the writing style, and I guess it is prophetic. It just wasn’t easy to read or enjoy.
 
Right now going to start “Apocalypse Cow” by Michael Logan. Need to finish to J.R. Ward books as well as some Laurell K. Hamilton. Beyond that not sure what I will read next. Maybe more Anne Bishop.
 
Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind by David B Currie
 
“Daughter of Deliverance” by Gilbert Morris, the sixth in the “Lions of Judah” series. A biblical story about Rahab.
 
I finished “The Martian,” by Andy Weir. It was okay for a near-future hard-science fiction novel. I am reminded of what used to be the distinction between those stories that appeared in “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction”—the more literary ones, the well written ones in which the science needn’t be well thought out or be truly extrapolative, and might be entirely absent—and the stories that appeared in “Analog Science Fiction” magazine, which insisted on pretty hard science, often at the expense of literary worth.

This book would be in the second category, but it is well written. Still, when the protagonist, stranded on Mars, encounters a multitude of problems to be solved in order to survive, we are treated to a step by step, nearly bolt by bolt, circuit by circuit explanation of the process involved. For me it was tedious, but technical minded readers will like it.

Also, I note that the movie rights were quickly acquired and the movie will be out soon. Good grief, what ever happened to the days of giving a book a decent time on the market before coming out with the movie? I can pretty much guarantee that the movie will leave out all the technical details in the book—which the author said is one of the main reasons he wrote it. He loved developing those details and ensuring their accuracy.

A word of caution. The very first sentence of the book would be off-putting to someone who objects to bad language, but in today’s world, those five people won’t buy the book anyway.
 
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I finished “The Martian,” by Andy Weir.
A word of caution. The very first sentence of the book would be off-putting to someone who objects to bad language, but in today’s world, those five people won’t buy the book anyway.
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The entire book is like that, if memory serves, and the only reason I don’t recommend it to more people. The book itself is almost like The Big Bang Theory; one moment it’s hard science, the next we’ve got physical comedy. (And sometimes they combine together in explosions…)

As for myself, I’m in the midst of the Narnia series. I read the first book in elementary school, of course, but now I’m utterly enjoying the entire series.
 
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga.

Review: A Life-affirming book about teenage suicide.
 
“By Way Of The Wilderness” Gilbert Morris (another Biblical)
 
Mercy; The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life,
by Walter Kasper
 
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