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Tags:                     ]]> Book Review – 23 MINUTES IN HELL by Bill Wiese Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:01:23 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80a0a http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80a0a JDD

23 Minutes in Hell is Bill Wiese's account of his claimed trip to Hell, followed by attempts at explaining what he saw and the presentation of the Gospel message. His fundamental point is this: that Christians have a duty to witness to others...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review – I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN by Joanne Greenberg Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:01:19 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee809ff http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee809ff JDD

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is Joanne Greenberg's (Hannah Green) autobiographical novel about her schizophrenia. In it, Deborah, a 16-year-old girl, spends several years in a mental hospital overcoming her illness...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review – KATHARINE LUTHER: LIBERATED NUN by Alice E. Walter Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:01:34 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80999 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80999 JDD Katharine Luther: Liberated Nun is a biography of the wife of Reformer Martin Luther. Katharine von Bora entered a convent at a young age, and was later smuggled out with other nuns who wished to break from the traditional church.

Although Walter has compiled a solid and reputable reference list, this account is marked by simple and amateurish writing which leans to the romanticized and melodramatic...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review – ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO担 NEST by Ken Kesey Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:01:46 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80973 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80973 JDD

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is the story of the residents and staff of a mental ward, centered around the power struggle between McMurphy, the new, sane patient, and the dictatorial Big Nurse.

The novel is written in the present tense, which is often problematic, but here it works well enough...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:12:20 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80726 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80726 JDD

All Quiet on the Western Front is, in many senses, a novelization of author Erich Maria Remarque's experiences in World War I. The story concerns Paul Baumer, a volunteer infantryman, and his and his friends' experiences on the front, in battle, and on leave...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DISCWORLD by Terry Pratchett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:11:39 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fdaf http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fdaf JDD

Stephen Briggs has compiled a selection of quotes and passages from every Discworld book through MAKING MONEY. As Terry Pratchett is known for his clever sentences, puns and jokes, this may seem like a great idea...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review THE STRANGER by Albert Camus Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:11:47 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fd79 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fd79 JDD

Camus is here proponing his absurdist theory, as something of a counterpoint to existentialism. The amoral main character, Meursault has a short attention span and an utterly lazy approach to life – not that he doesn't work hard, but that it doesn't make any difference to him what happens...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review MAKING MONEY by Terry Pratchett Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:11:48 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fb4f http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7fb4f JDD

Making Money is the second Discworld book featuring Moist von Lipwig, the conman-turned-postmaster general from Going Postal. Here he's put in charge of the mint, and so we get a great many adventures in banking.

I am a huge fan of the Discworld novels; I have read them all, and variously enjoyed each of them, although I have not much gotten into the rapidly growing periphery, which includes books on the science, geography and art of Discworld...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:11:16 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f7e6 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f7e6 JDD

And so we revisit the official novel of high school English, the only F. Scott Fitzgerald most people will ever read...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR担 COURT by Mark Twain Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:11:55 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f748 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f748 JDD

The title also happens to be the plot outline. Elements of the plot have been duplicated in countless books, TV shows and movies...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review PUDD誰HEAD WILSON by Mark Twain Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:11:07 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f6e3 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f6e3 JDD

Mark Twain might have been a sad, grim man with the bleakest conceivable outlook on life, but the man could turn a phrase like nobody's business.

Pudd'nhead Wilson is a fairly short novel, but there's a lot going on...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON by H. G. Wells Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:11:24 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f380 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7f380 JDD

The book is over a hundred years old, so you'll forgive a few spoilers. There are actually two related stories here:

First, there's Mr...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - BRAND AMERICA by Simon Anholt and Jeremy Hildreth Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:10:54 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7eed4 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7eed4 JDD

The themes of Brand America are related to the question President Bush asked after 9/11: Why do they hate us? Since its inception, America has marketed itself and its culture as a brand...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER by Alan Sillitoe Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:10:22 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7ee7e http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7ee7e JDD

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a collection of short stories by Alan Sillitoe. The stories are all vignettes of working class Britons...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE by Austin Grossman Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:09:13 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e78c http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e78c JDD

I picked up SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE because it was a superhero novel with a completely original cast. I was very excited when I heard about it...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE and THE OVERCOMING LIFE by W. Nee Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:09:58 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e677 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e677 JDD

Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese church leader. He spent the last twenty years of his life in prison, as Christians were (and continue to be) severely persecuted by the Communists in China...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - ON WRITING by Stephen King Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:09:39 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4c1 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4c1 JDD


I picked up On Writing because you can't do it much bigger than Stephen King has. Most books on writing are by grammarmongers or literary types, and I was interested to get the perspective of a writer of popular fiction...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - FAST YOUR WAY TO HEALTH by Lee Bueno-Aguer Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:09:34 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4af http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4af JDD

Lee Bueno-Aguer is not a nutritionist. Strike...

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Tags:           ]]> Movie Review - TRANSFORMERS Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:09:31 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4a5 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee7e4a5 JDD I don't usually do movie reviews, mostly because I watch so many (I average one a day, thanks to my double-speed technique, which is an abomination to some and a great help when movies are found lacking). But this is Transformers, which is first in the coming wave of movies based on 80s cartoons...

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Tags:           ]]> Ofipd's unique preempt style Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:08:06 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8347e http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8347e bboinquiry
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Tags:                       ]]> Book Review HARD NEWS by Seth Mnookin Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:32 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee82383 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee82383 JDD

Hard News is former Newsweek writer Seth Mnookin's book about Howell Raines' twenty-one month tenure as executive editor at the New York Times. Mnookin begins Hard News with a brief history of the New York Times, describing the previous publishers and the paper's evolution, explaining the circumstances in which Howell Raines became a candidate for executive editor and how he was chosen...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES by Bernard Evslin Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:04:08 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8236f http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8236f JDD

The Adventures of Ulysses, written by Bernard Evslin and illustrated by William Hunter, is an account of Ulysses' voyages home after the Trojan War.

Evslin begins with a summary of the Trojan War, then goes right to Ulysses' voyages...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review - V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:02:44 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee81a51 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee81a51 JDD

V FOR VENDETTA is Alan Moore and David Lloyd's comic book vision of future, dystopian England, where the fascist government is oppost by an anarchist terrorist.

The comic is considerably more complex than the film; V is crusading for anarchy, not freedom, and neither he nor Evey Hammond are as particularly noble as they are in the movie...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review IF THERE担 A GOD, WHY ARE THERE ATHEISTS? by R.C. Sproul Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:32 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee81910 http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee81910 JDD If There’s a God, Why Are there Atheists? is theologian R.C...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ABROAD by Fitzhugh Green Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:02:32 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8183f http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8183f JDD American Propaganda Abroad is former United States Information Agency (USIA) employee Fitzhugh Green’s history of American propaganda from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan. The book also covers some of how USIA operated and what it did...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review TAKING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE SERIOUSLY by Sinclair B. Ferguson Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:02:51 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8169f http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8169f JDD Taking the Christian Life Seriously is Sinclair B. Ferguson's book on Christian maturity and spiritual growth...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C. S. Lewis Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:01:19 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8104b http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee8104b JDD

The Screwtape Letters is Lewis's classic collection of diabolical correspondence. In it, a senior devil gives continued advice to his protégé on how best to tempt his victim and keep him from salvation...

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Tags:           ]]> Book Review CREEDS IN THE BIBLE by Frederick W. Danker Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:01:33 GMT http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80bcd http://www.noozit.com/article/.ee80bcd JDD

Creeds in the Bible is part of Concordia Publishing’s Biblical Monographs series, which was “designed to acquaint readers with current developments in Biblical interpretation.” In this book, Danker “discusses creedal confessions in Old and New Testament to increase appreciation for Biblical expressions of faith and the historic creeds of the church.” In other words, Danker shows us what the words we say about Jesus in church mean, and where these creeds are rooted in the Old Testament. In looking at Jesus in relation to the Old Testament, we also see how a lot of Paul’s supposedly new doctrine is rooted in the Old Testament...

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