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Kenny Kemp
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IT'S NOT ONLY THATFacebook® is a kind of pathetic display for people (including me, I’m sorry to say) who need to inform their friends of their opinions, events, and interests—the problem lies in the definition of “friend.”I don’t know how anyone can have 50 real friends, much less 5,000. Indeed, when I sit down to count how many friends I have, the number is much less than 50. Indeed, under t... read more »
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I Hated Heaven: A Novel of Love After Death
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Lightland: A Soul's Journey
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The Welcoming Door (Parables of the Carpenter, #1)
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Dad Was a Carpenter: Blueprints for a Meaningful Life
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The Wise Man Returns
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Oki's Island: A Hero's Journey
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The Carpenter of Galilee & The Welcoming Door
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City on a Hill (Parables of the Carpenter, #2)
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Dad, Are You There?
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Flight Of The Titans
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LIGHTLAND (Mystery & Thrillers)
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A supernatural thriller set in the near future featuring a deadly worldwide virus, the cloning of a man dead for 6000 years, and the dawning realization by the scientists that they have interfered with the journey of his soul.
Outline: "Characters & Viewpoint" (Reference)
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An outline of Orson Scott Card's indispensible book "Characters & Viewpoint"
The Absurdity of English (Humor)
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I got this via anonymous e-mail. Wish'd I'd written it!
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More award-winning fiction by Kenny Kemp: 2011 National Best Books Awards - Finalist, Religious Fiction 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Winner, Religious Fiction |
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WHY HARRY POTTER WORKS . . . YET DOESN’T I’m one of the few who were not captivated by Harry Potter. When the first book came out, I judged that a story about witchcraft was not my cup of tea—not because it was evil but merely because I think children...more |
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I am the author of Dad, Are You There? I wrote the book to counter, in a small way, the denegration of a father's place in our culture. Nowadays, not only doesn't father know best, he's almost always depicted as a dispensable fool. But the truth is so...more |
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R.L. Stevenson's Kidnapped shows the author at the height of his powers: an historical novel for boys, full of adventure and a fascinating sidekick character, the roguish Alan Breck, whom we do not know for most of the story whether he is a murderer...more |
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| Though not his magnum opus, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer more than sets the stage for the deeper and more profound Huckleberry Finn. And that is no small thing. As Twain says in the prologue, he just wanted to remind adults what it was like to be a child,...more | |
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Can't say enough about this, my favorite book as a boy. I hadn't read it since I became an author myself, so rereading it again it was illuminative; I see now the weaknesses in the plot, but the strong characters still astound. More than anything, I...more |
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| Michael Crichton was an idea guy and apparently a busy man. So far, two books have been published with his name on them after his death. The first, Pirate Latitudes, was completed by Crichton, though the writing is uneven and thus it was probably edi...more | |
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"I'm of the opinion that it is unlikely that the star of Bethlehem was an actual star or a comet, as some have postulated. My reasoning is this: for th...more
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Medved pulls from many sources for this book and collates them into a general entry-level discussion about the "facts" most of us have been taught about American history -- "facts" that are demonstrably untrue. I'll leave it to Medved to give you chap...more |
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“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
― William Faulkner
― William Faulkner
“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”
― Michael Crichton
― Michael Crichton
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck
― John Steinbeck
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader -- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
― E.L. Doctorow
― E.L. Doctorow
