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cinder

cinder

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First off thank you Tintin. I hadn't noticed this thread before and it's great to be around my fellow bookworms.


Desdichado said:
Ivanhoe, Brideshead Revisited, Howard's End among others.
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I was wondering if your screen name was and Ivanhoe reference.


Anyway authors and books I enjoy:

Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series
C.S. Lewis
Orson Scott Card
George Macdonald
Paul L. Maier - his historical novels Pontious Pilate and Flames of Rome were excellent, accurate, and informative
Patricia C Wrede
Brock and Bodie Thoene

Mark Buchannan
Albert Hsu Singles at the Crossroads

There are probably more but I can't think of them now.
 
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Tintin

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Breno, yes, "Faith of Our Fathers" is incredibly interesting. Definitely check the book out, I've never read anything quite like it. No worries. Yes, I've read a few of Michael Crichton's novels. One of them was The Lost World (it was so much better than the movie!)

Cinder, my pleasure. I think it's important to keep this thread on the first or second page (if possible).
 
breno785au

breno785au

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Tintin said:
Breno, yes, "Faith of Our Fathers" is incredibly interesting. Definitely check the book out, I've never read anything quite like it. No worries. Yes, I've read a few of Michael Crichton's novels. One of them was The Lost World (it was so much better than the movie!)

Cinder, my pleasure. I think it's important to keep this thread on the first or second page (if possible).
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Cool man, that's good to know - I was surprised (dont know why) how different the Jurassic Park movie was to the novel. The Lost World, i've always enjoyed since I was a kid, I still do now, I think it holds some sentimental value but I've been wanting to get my hands on the book from the library for some time now. I'm wondering how the next instalment of JP will be..not holding my breath for it but it may surprise hehe
 
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Blueamethyst

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My favourite book is Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. It's the story of Hosea and Gomer set in California in the 1800's
 
jannianni

jannianni

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I'm glad I found this thread, I just finished a phenomenal book last night called "The Husband's Secret" by Liane Moriarty, has any one else read it? It was far better than I anticipated, so many twists and turns in the book. I also liked "Looking For Alaska", but I am still recovering from the emotional trauma from it, just like the book "Me Before You" by JoJo Moyes. I mostly like books by Sophie Kinsella, although I haven't read the Shopaholic series yet. Other books I enjoyed are: "The Ocean At The End of The Lane" by Neil Gaiman, "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn, "The Princess Bride"--William Goldman's retelling of it, and "Where'd You Go Bernadette?" by Maria Semple, just to name a few off of the top of my head.

I'm also always looking for book recommendations, please let me know!:D
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I'm currently reading "Kidnapped", and I read Treasure Island not too long ago. I cannot believe i didn't discover those books when I was a kid! oh well, I can enjoy them now. It's fun to read about them traveling around the Scottish coast and towns where I've been :D (ie Edinburgh, Mull and Iona)
 
hoss2576

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Stephen Covey
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Zig Ziglar
Alexander Dumas
Mark Driscoll
Josh McDowell
 
Nautilus

Nautilus

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Currently on my bookshelf we have a large collection of Steven King novels, Harry Potter, and the Song of Ice and Fire series from George R.R. Martin.
 
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Tintin

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The Authenticity of the Book of Genesis by William R. Cooper is a brilliant book in any sense of the word. I will borrow my following summary liberally from the back cover.

In this single volume Dr Bill Cooper takes on the challenge of the globally accepted media's opinion of the Scriptures we call the Bible. He argues from hard evidence that the Bible is historically accurate throughout - in everything, prophetical, geographical, linguistic and doctrinal.

Part One of this book deals with the antiquity of Genesis (Creation to Joseph), showing how each of its component parts is considerably older than any of the sources proposed for it by the modernist school.

Part Two deals with the pre-Christian Flood traditions that are found around the world, which together present a formidable body of evidence for the truth of Genesis when it speaks of the Flood of Noah. This section takes up over half of the book's total content and the nature of the topic makes for some redundancies, but far less than you would believe.

Finally, Part Three draws the reader's attention to a certain clay tablet which makes nonsense of the modernist claim that the Flood account found in Genesis is modelled on or derived from the Epic of Gilgamesh or an other proposed source. We call it here the Genesis Flood Tablet.

The Authenticity of the Book of Genesis is well-written and resourced and provides an excellent balance of being both scholarly and a reasonably easy read. There are very few issues with the book. Part One was fascinating but details were slim in some of the early chapters. The cover art is appropriate but the design is rather average. Several pictures are included but I would've loved to see more of them. Overall, I highly recommend this book. It presents a formidable amount of evidence for the case that Genesis is both ancient truth and literal history.

9/10
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Currently halfway through The screwtape letters. I LOVE it!
 
Lynx

Lynx

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A bit screwy ain't it?
 
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MollyConnor

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The Bible - Various Authors
The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Anything written by Charles Dickens.

Also...I like the American Girl series...I think it's awesome! I especially like Samantha. LOL Those books, along with the HP series, made me fall in love with reading when I was a little girl. :eek:

I also like reading fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray

A somewhat disturbing book, but a very good one.
 
secularhermit

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I wished U would watch this "Em".

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MollyConnor

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I really like the For Dummies books. They sound silly but they're actually very informative and I own eight of them. They help with difficult academic topics and I love them! :D
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Elizabeth of York - The first Tudor queen
 
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jennymae

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To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee, I can't stop reading that book, and I just cant wait for her "new" book.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I read that one a few weeks ago. :D
 
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jennymae

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I also enjoy reading Norwegian Authors like Hamsun, Bjørneboe (I believe you mentioned him the other day), Andre Bjerke and Sigrid Undset.:)
 
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Tintin

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MollyConnor said:
I really like the For Dummies books. They sound silly but they're actually very informative and I own eight of them. They help with difficult academic topics and I love them! :D
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I enjoy the Idiots Guides to books, but I've only read one For Dummies book and it was about Narnia. I skimmed through one on the Bible and wasn't impressed. It didn't favour a biblical creation perspective and didn't hold the Bible in high esteem.
 
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