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Peter Walker is completing a Masters of Divinity at George Fox Seminary. He has contributed to several books including Out of the OOZE: Unlikely Love Letters to the Church from Beyond the Pew (NavPress), The Church of the Perfect Storm (Abingdon Press) and Banned Questions About Jesus (Chalice Press), as well as various magazines, e-zines and blogs. He is interested in civil rights, advocacy, and good-natured conversations between liberals and conservatives. Peter is married to Rev. Jennifer Butler and can be found at www.downsideupjesus.com. ...more

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Artemis

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The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)

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Peter Walker rated a book it was amazing Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Brutal, messy, gorgeous and propulsive. I couldn’t put it down. Such a unique reading experience.
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Garbage. It’s Offensive to readers to publish something like this.
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The first third of this book was so insufferable I almost couldn’t finish. Took a break for several weeks. If the author intended to mock insipid academia, he did so by channeling its banality too accurately. And I’m not convinced that was his intent ...more
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“Here was one representative example of Richard Hedd’s highly esteemed Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction: The Vietnamese peasant will not object to the use of airpower, for he is apolitical, interested only in feeding himself and his family. Bombing his village will of course upset him, but the cost is outweighed ultimately by how airpower will persuade him that he is on the wrong side if he chooses communism, which cannot protect him. (p. 126)”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“Some might say I was seeing things, but the true optical illusion was in seeing others and oneself as undivided and whole, as if being in focus was more real than being out of focus. We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise,”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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