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Have you read these books?
« on: December 10, 2007, 02:03:51 PM »
I've read these books, most of them fairly recently, and would like to hear your opinions on them.  I don't have an especial axe to grind about any of them.  Of course, I might find one.   smiley


The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright

The Founders and the Classics - Carl J. Richard

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America - Thomas G. West

Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy (or Ransom Trilogy) - C.S. Lewis


Thanks. 


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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2007, 05:48:59 PM »
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The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
The Founders and the Classics - Carl J. Richard
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America - Thomas G. West

No.
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Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

One Lewis book that I stalled out on pretty quickly.  I'm not sure why -- that was long ago.

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The Space Trilogy (or Ransom Trilogy) - C.S. Lewis

I dig them out every once in a while to re-read.  They each have their moments.  I quite like the scene where Lewis through the voice of the eldil Malecandra savages the human manifest destiny == space travel talk that is (or was) common in SF.
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2007, 05:50:25 PM »
Nope.
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2007, 06:50:45 PM »
Me neither...
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2007, 06:56:34 PM »
Not a one.
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2007, 07:01:11 PM »
You bunch a' illiterates.   smiley
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2007, 08:55:48 PM »
I read a lot of books, but not a single one of those.  Do you recommend them?
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2007, 01:43:43 AM »
Have you read "Drums of Mer"?

No?

Ya big chicken...  cheesy
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2007, 01:53:44 AM »
Quote from: Unisaw on December 10, 2007, 07:55:48 PM
I read a lot of books, but not a single one of those.  Do you recommend them?

Yes. 
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2007, 01:38:58 PM »
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Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

One Lewis book that I stalled out on pretty quickly.  I'm not sure why -- that was long ago.

 

If you liked the Ransom books, I really think you will like TWHF.  It seems terribly un-Christian to begin with, but you get the point eventually.  All is not as it seems. 
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2007, 04:29:11 PM »
The Space Trilogy: Haven't read it since 1994.  I need to give it another go.  I have more patience for Sirens of Titan, and I read that every few years.

Till We Have Faces: On my shelf, but like so many others, remains unread.
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« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2007, 08:37:45 PM »
Read _That Hideous Strength_

Enjoyed the philosophy of it, but not really a classic sci-fi fan.  Also don't really like Lewis's characters.  And the pervasive dreariness and rising chaos started spilling over into too many other thoughts, which was not pleasant. 
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« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2007, 09:28:07 PM »
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2007, 02:41:35 AM »
I haven't read those but I did just finish 'Blood Moon Rising'.  Espionage thriller written by Eric Wiggen. 
He's a Christian author and a pretty good writer.
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2007, 11:00:33 AM »
Chalk me up with lee n. field.

I know what Til we have faces is about and what Lewis is trying to do.  It just doesn't capture me.

I do like that Lewis is fond of having bears kill people, both the Narnia and Perelandra books feature it.

Perhaps someone should alert Colbert?
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2007, 12:10:47 PM »
And here I thought you were just into ARMORED FREAKIN' POLAR BEARS!!!
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2007, 12:51:14 PM »
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Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

I read that a long time ago - what a weird story.


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Is Out of the Silent Planet one of the trilogy ?
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2007, 12:57:29 PM »
Do any of them have pictures?
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Re: Have you read these books?
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2007, 01:31:03 PM »
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Is Out of the Silent Planet  one of the trilogy ?

Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength
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« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2007, 07:12:55 PM »
Quote from: fistful on December 12, 2007, 11:10:47 AM
And here I thought you were just into ARMORED FREAKIN' POLAR BEARS!!!

If a book doesn't have any, I just mentally replace a noun picked at random with that phrase.

In "Out of the Silent Planet" the noun I replaced was "space".  grin
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« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2007, 07:43:20 PM »
Quote from: jamisjockey on December 12, 2007, 11:57:29 AM
Do any of them have pictures?


The Looming Tower does.   smiley
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