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Frank Peretti
I doubt that angels have inferiority complexes, but if they do, they should read Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness, and Piercing the Darkness. Both books give the impression that God is to the u… more »
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Frank Peretti
climach wrote 2 months ago: I doubt that angels have inferiority complexes, but if they do, they should read Frank Peretti’s T … more »
Mark Bowden
climach wrote 5 months ago: As I was in the process of reading Blackhawk Down, I gave a simple writing assignment to my immigran … more »
Denis Johnson
climach wrote 5 months ago: It was totally unfair to the author, but I had a plane to catch. I read, Alre … more »
Arthur Miller
climach wrote 5 months ago: I’m so glad I read Death of a Salesman first! The Crucible is standard. It … more »
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
climach wrote 5 months ago: Malcolm X loved talking, and he loved blaming, and he did both with eloquence. … more »
Salman Rushdie
climach wrote 5 months ago: Salman Rushdie knows language. His sentences twist and drip with images and meanings so … more »
Ralph Ellison
climach wrote 6 months ago: Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, left me in awe. It had sat on my shelf for years, in a … more »
Larry Brown
climach wrote 7 months ago: Larry Brown’s South is the type of place country singers don’t mention because it’ … more »
John LeCarre
climach wrote 7 months ago: John LeCarre was a gift. Two months into my desert life, I found The Russia … more »
Soren Kierkegaard
climach wrote 9 months ago: I knew Kierkegaard was a 19th-century northern-European philosopher. I’d heard that he was a depre … more »
Toni Morrison
climach wrote 9 months ago: In The Bluest Eye, a young girl goes crazy after being raped by her father. In Beloved, … more »
Larry Crabb
climach wrote 10 months ago: I found some notes I wrote after reading Inside Out years ago: “wonderfully refreshing in the lack … more »
Eugene Ionesco
climach wrote 1 year ago: When I first read La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) and Les Chaises (The Chairs), I felt like … more »
Voltaire
climach wrote 1 year ago: Candide is a very, very funny trip to despair. I’ve read it a three times (two English translation … more »
John Irving
climach wrote 1 year ago: The World According to Garp was one of the first books I read that I knew my parents wou … more »
Paul Auster
climach wrote 1 year ago: It’s always dangerous to assume what inspired an author to try a specific style or theme. In the c … more »
Walker Percy
climach wrote 1 year ago: Love in the Ruins sat on my desk for almost a month after a coworker gave it to me. 200 pages. Paper … more »
Mikhail Bulgakov
climach wrote 1 year ago: If an entire society denies the existence of God, then how will it respond when Satan appears in the … more »
Bret Easton Ellis
climach wrote 1 year ago: I heard some used bookstore workers raving about American Psycho, but they didn’t have it in stock … more »
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