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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/17/2009 8:24:04 PM
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jazzact13
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The Left Behind series -- rotten and defeatist fantasies. Corrosive to Christian hope, optimism, energy, and long-term projects.
Yeah, because reading about how Christ will come back and set everything right can just ruin one's day.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/18/2009 12:08:40 PM
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Yeah, because reading about how Christ will come back and set everything right can just ruin one's day.
Reading the theory that God decided to let the other team have an uncontested turn at bat is really demoralizing! I mean, if God Himself has ordained the ultimate failure of the gospel, then what earthly hopes can we entertain for our selves, for our grandchildren?
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. Saw an incredible move of God aborted, derailed, detoured into the swampy morass of puerile, inane, fantasizing.
Bad theology is a harsh taskmaster. Even if gift-wrapped in a competent novel.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/18/2009 12:48:02 PM
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Anything by Joyce Meyer.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/20/2009 9:52:12 PM
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jazzact13
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Reading the theory that God decided to let the other team have an uncontested turn at bat is really demoralizing!
Only if it's unbiblical. And it's not.
And considering how much prophecy in the Bible is negative, one can only assume that you pass over those things.
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I mean, if God Himself has ordained the ultimate failure of the gospel, then what earthly hopes can we entertain for our selves, for our grandchildren?
Jesus Himself said that "You will be hated of all nations for my name's sake" and "If they hated Me, they will hate you because you love me". Sorry, but the Bible doesn't sugar-coat mankind, nor is it lovey-dovey in terms to how people will respond to the Gospel.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/20/2009 10:15:34 PM
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Yeah, because reading about how Christ will come back and set everything right can just ruin one's day. If you'd more than just the last one you'd have seen how bad they are. I gave up after 4. I don't know how any intelligent being could read all of them without their brain turning to mush.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/21/2009 7:48:01 AM
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I gave up after 4. I don't know how any intelligent being could read all of them without their brain turning to mush.
How sad, and how strange ... the only major-league novelist who publicly confesses Christ before men in my favorite genre is a Mormon. When Christians decided that God did not mean for us to have a future, the secularists were eager to snap up that discarded trifle, and colonize it in their imaginations. A friend of mine published an article a few years ago (Futures for Sale) that reflects on faith, courage, optimism, transitions, and science fiction.
(How many people know that the first meal eaten on the moon was the Lord's Supper?)
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/21/2009 8:12:38 AM
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Yeah, because reading about how Christ will come back and set everything right can just ruin one's day. If you'd more than just the last one you'd have seen how bad they are. I gave up after 4. I don't know how any intelligent being could read all of them without their brain turning to mush.
I read all the way to the end hoping something would change.
*sigh*
Those are moments of my life I'll never get back. 
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/21/2009 8:55:39 AM
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the shack
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/21/2009 6:38:52 PM
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THE SHACK!!! It's horrible!
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 5/29/2009 7:10:35 AM
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I agree. The Shack is a very dangerous book and will deceive many.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/10/2009 7:56:18 AM
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Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card - I absolutely loved Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, but I will not read anything by Card again after Lost Boys. Terrible, terrible book.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/10/2009 7:24:13 PM
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"when God writes your love story" By Eric and Leslie Ludy
this book had good intentions, but it was poorly written, repetitive, and somewhat condemning.
they use greek mythology to explain their points rather than scripture, quote themselves, and other authors, and use cute catchphrases to "keep your attention" like "the true Author of Romance" and "Give God the pen of your love life."
i really really wish i could get my $15 back.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/11/2009 2:10:41 PM
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Anything from Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, JD Salinger, Jack Kerouac, and George Eliot.
Sylvia Plath because she is strictly for teenage girls, and there are far superior female writers from her time period. Jane Austen because she's just terrible. Herman Melville is another one that drags every story out, like Charles Dickens. JD Salinger is annoying, people read Catcher in the Rye...then all of a sudden it's their favorite book ever and they never read again. Unless it's Chuck Palahniuk, who should also be on my list. I hate Jack Kerouac because out of the "beat" writers, William S. Burroughs demolishes him and receives not even 1/4 of the credit he deserves. George Eliot is snooze worthy.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/11/2009 4:53:06 PM
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Austin? Terrible?
I can't agree on Melville (I enjoyed Moby Dick) or Dickens, but I see your point. But Austin?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/11/2009 5:28:15 PM
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The DaVinci Code is another.
i had fun with that book 
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/11/2009 5:29:58 PM
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ORIGINAL: everythingat
Anything from Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, JD Salinger, Jack Kerouac, and George Eliot.
Sylvia Plath because she is strictly for teenage girls, and there are far superior female writers from her time period. Jane Austen because she's just terrible. Herman Melville is another one that drags every story out, like Charles Dickens. JD Salinger is annoying, people read Catcher in the Rye...then all of a sudden it's their favorite book ever and they never read again. Unless it's Chuck Palahniuk, who should also be on my list. I hate Jack Kerouac because out of the "beat" writers, William S. Burroughs demolishes him and receives not even 1/4 of the credit he deserves. George Eliot is snooze worthy.
really? i must say that Austin's books are "old fashioned" thus....boringly written....but i think if one attempts to wade through they actually get quite interesting
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/12/2009 6:57:16 PM
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everythingat
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It's Austen. I could care less if it's "old fashioned," I only read classic and modern literature. It takes a lot for me to read something that is contemporary.
Those were mostly picked because of their popularity, when they simply don't stand up to the peers of their time(s) who receive very little credit.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/13/2009 9:46:55 AM
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Dickens?
Sorry, I just finished "Little Dorrit", and would recommend it quite heartily. And "Martin Chuzzlewit" was rather humorous.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/13/2009 7:27:27 PM
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It's Austen.
Oops. That's what I get for posting too quickly.
I still think you're nuts.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/15/2009 1:08:11 PM
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Do you mean books I have read and enjoyed... but I wouldn't recommend?
or
Do you mean books or authors I have read and disliked?
or
Do you mean books or authors I have read and don't want to spread their ideology/viewpoint, etc.?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/15/2009 2:10:50 PM
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LOL! Don't overanalyse, silly. 
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/15/2009 4:14:58 PM
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The Oath. Sorry, Peretti, this book just stunk.
Virus Ground Zero by Ed Regis. Holy Smokes, was it intolerable.
And to throw in my curve ball, I hated The Great Gatsby.
Also, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I think Hugo is an incredible writer, but the book goes on for like 300 pages describing what the church looks like; and then, in the end, it was entirely not relevant to the story. As beautiful as it was written and described, it was a dog to get through.
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