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A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the …
A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic …
An excellent read. The creative structure and perspective of temptation from the perspective of a devil is, in a word, clever. It had me enamored from the beginning. With short, digestible chapters, it's no wonder how this very book caused C.S. Lewis to be so popular. Not only this, but the theological and ideological meat packed so neatly into each chapter is excellent food for the mind. However, I found myself a little bored through the book. Screwtape kept running off on ideological monologues that felt quite forced, and with that repeating over and over for almost every chapter, I felt as if it didn't really give the text much time to breathe. I think if there was more content like is found in chapter 22 and the final chapter dispersed throughout the book, it would make the experience far smoother and more enjoyable is it would give the personality …
An excellent read. The creative structure and perspective of temptation from the perspective of a devil is, in a word, clever. It had me enamored from the beginning. With short, digestible chapters, it's no wonder how this very book caused C.S. Lewis to be so popular. Not only this, but the theological and ideological meat packed so neatly into each chapter is excellent food for the mind. However, I found myself a little bored through the book. Screwtape kept running off on ideological monologues that felt quite forced, and with that repeating over and over for almost every chapter, I felt as if it didn't really give the text much time to breathe. I think if there was more content like is found in chapter 22 and the final chapter dispersed throughout the book, it would make the experience far smoother and more enjoyable is it would give the personality of Screwtape to develop more.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind …
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I really enjoyed flowers forAlgernon. It spoke to a very personal fear of mine, which is losing information, losing understanding. It was excellently well written.
However, I feel as if there was potential that was wasted. I feel as if Algernon has a particularly unceremonious ending, and that there should have been more emphasis placed on his death. Perhaps I am biased, since my expectation was that there was going to be a heavier (at least symbolically) importance placed on Algernon. But after his, again, unceremonious, death, he largely goes unmentioned. Furthermore, I think that Charlie's move to New York is an unsatisfying ending, especially with Algernon being set up as a symbolic microcosm of Charlie himself. I think the story would have been much more satisfying if Charlie had shared in Algernon's fate.
The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.
Dalinar Kholin …
In the first book of C.S. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to …
A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the …
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in …
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision …
An excellent book in what I call the "Dystopian Trinity" (1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451.) Brave New World presents the other side of the coin from 1984 and presents its own unique dystopia in all its overbearing horror. An excellent criticism of the present, and a cautionary tale of the future.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
"Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took …
"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising …
"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they …