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Vann Turner
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This novel was completed in 1992 and has gathered dust for twenty-five years. Back in those days publishing houses had staffs of readers who would sludge through hundreds of manuscripts in an effort to find one publishable. Also in those days an author could submit his/her manuscript to just one publishing house at a time and the manuscript had to have the words, "Not a simultaneous submission,...
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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
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Deeply flawed, but worth 5 stars For full disclosure (1) I received a hardback copy of this important theological work from a dear ...more " |
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I believe, Jane, this is the shortest review you've ever penned. I think I'd know because I read ALL your reviews. They serve to guide me in selecting
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This is a charming little novel. The author tells her heart-warming story of Dicte’s kidnapping and rescue with the distant lens of a folk tale. My taste in reading is not YA or fantasy but literary or historical novels. But how glad I am that I stum ...more |
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Wow! Jane. Slogging through in a language you aren't fluent in! My hat's off to you. I'm wondering: Had you read it in English (not available yet), wo
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| So, you don't read historical fiction? Films widely loved—Braveheart, The Thirteenth Warrior, The Gladiator or Shakespeare in Love—would all be classified as historical fiction. In good historical fiction, the setting and milieu are authentic but the ...more | |
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The Author's Review. Readers tell me that after the charm of Sometimes' brief prologue--a dog speaking to God--the opening chapters are difficult and make the reader uncomfortable. Those chapters with their talk of an S/M relationship with a woman are ...more |
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"3.5 raised to 4. Fascinating satire on evolution and today's ecological and environmental movements. The part-time narrator is a length of genetic code surrounded by cells, called an Archaeon. The work describes what the Archaeon calls "downdrift"..."
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“King: Should I specify for the realm what religion will be acceptable in this Kingdom, as the Emperor in the East did?
Titus: If you are of such sagacity, my Lord, that you know all the secrets of the Universe, you would be remiss if you did not specify the acceptable religion. But if you, too, are mortal, and your understanding is partial, I would think it arrogant to dictate to the people how they should approach Existence. Each has his own understanding, and each his own ability to understand.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Titus: If you are of such sagacity, my Lord, that you know all the secrets of the Universe, you would be remiss if you did not specify the acceptable religion. But if you, too, are mortal, and your understanding is partial, I would think it arrogant to dictate to the people how they should approach Existence. Each has his own understanding, and each his own ability to understand.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
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“King: Should I specify for the realm what religion will be acceptable in this Kingdom, as the Emperor in the East did?
Titus: If you are of such sagacity, my Lord, that you know all the secrets of the Universe, you would be remiss if you did not specify the acceptable religion. But if you, too, are mortal, and your understanding is partial, I would think it arrogant to dictate to the people how they should approach Existence. Each has his own understanding, and each his own ability to understand.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Titus: If you are of such sagacity, my Lord, that you know all the secrets of the Universe, you would be remiss if you did not specify the acceptable religion. But if you, too, are mortal, and your understanding is partial, I would think it arrogant to dictate to the people how they should approach Existence. Each has his own understanding, and each his own ability to understand.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.”
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
― To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
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