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Old 05-21-2017, 05:48 PM   #131 (permalink)
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Any Harry Potter book, Lord of the Rings, the Dictionary, or, to be serious, A Christmas Carol, or any Dickens work. The Prince. Nineteen-Eighty Four. I could go on.

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Sherlock Holmes series changed how we think about police/detective work. HP Lovecraft and Poe brought horror into the mainstream. Tons of others. All the Bible is is a big fat book that tells you what to do, and as I say, I can guarantee you the smallest percentage of Christians have ever even opened the damn thing.
Those books have had more impact than the bible? That's either ignorance or utter closemindedness, TH. Negative impact is still impact.
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Old 05-21-2017, 05:59 PM   #132 (permalink)
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Not sure it belongs on a must read list as it's been a few years and my memory is kind of fuzzy but I enjoyed The World According to Garp.
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Old 05-21-2017, 06:10 PM   #133 (permalink)
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It's definately worth a read. The 40 guys who wrote it over the course of a 1,500 year span did a nice job of keeping a fictional tale going.

P.S. To add perspective, 1,500 years ago from today was year 517.
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Old 05-21-2017, 06:16 PM   #134 (permalink)
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Not sure it belongs on a must read list as it's been a few years and my memory is kind of fuzzy but I enjoyed The World According to Garp.
Great book.
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Old 05-22-2017, 11:03 AM   #135 (permalink)
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I don't see how reading a religious propaganda "novel" with witches and goblins and fairies helps you understand history. Most of it could never have happened in reality - people rising from the dead? Seas parting? Give me a break.
Never said the "miracles" and myths helped you understand history. Being able to understand Christian ideology does.

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Any Harry Potter book, Lord of the Rings, the Dictionary, or, to be serious, A Christmas Carol, or any Dickens work. The Prince. Nineteen-Eighty Four. I could go on.

I will.

Sherlock Holmes series changed how we think about police/detective work. HP Lovecraft and Poe brought horror into the mainstream. Tons of others. All the Bible is is a big fat book that tells you what to do, and as I say, I can guarantee you the smallest percentage of Christians have ever even opened the damn thing.
All great books. Dickens had an impact on Victorian society and how we think about the poor. Lovecraft and Poe influenced 20th-century literature. Orwell changed the way we think about our government. But how many of them started a series of wars that killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people? Did they fuel conflicts between England and Scotland? Is there an American "Sherlock Holmes" belt that votes red in every election?

The bottom line is that I think the world would be a better place if everybody understood Christianity and Islam from their roots, not from appearances.
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First LOTR book since The Children of Hurin in 10 years?! I bought that when it came out and it was awesome, but how the **** has it been ten years? Might have to snatch this new one up.
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First LOTR book since The Children of Hurin in 10 years?! I bought that when it came out and it was awesome, but how the **** has it been ten years? Might have to snatch this new one up.
By which of course you mean download it for free.
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Old 06-01-2017, 12:11 PM   #139 (permalink)
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By which of course you mean download it for free.
No, I mean buy that **** in hardcover.
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Old 06-20-2017, 12:35 PM   #140 (permalink)
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Default A book you absolutely need to read. Horror.
Can't believe this has never been made into a movie.

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