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Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
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Sabercrazy wrote:Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
How do you like it?

Once I finish reading my Dekker books I'll dive into Frank Peretti...
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its good havent really gotten that far into it so im not sure yet but before reading Piercing the Darkness read This Present Darkness its a really good book although its extremely dry the first fifty pages but this he fixes it.
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your welcome.
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Almost done with The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby. Not as good as I thought it was a year ago. :?

Hmm... I'm thinking about getting Milkweed again, 'cause it's just that good. I think that A Long Way Gone and Milkweed are my favorite books. (The first one's history, and the second one's history fiction.)
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Markhiem :twisted:

This book is scarier than all the horror movies made after 2000 put together :D .
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Finished The Wall and the Wing, going to continue on The Hobbit.

And then I'll take on The Lord of the Rings books.

Btw, guys, here's the rough draft of my book report for A Long Way Gone, just so that you can get a feel of it:

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[quote]“I am pushing a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh. The breeze brings the faint cries of those whose last breaths are leaving their mangled bodies. I walk past them. Their arms and legs are missing; their intestines spill out through the bullet holes in their stomachs; brain matter comes out of their noses and ears.â€
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Too many first-person books these days, imho...

Readin' The Roaring River mystery...(since I can't get any good books... a little bird flew away with my library card)
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Well, it was a true story, written by the same guy as the boy in the book, and it was a memoir... So yeah.

I've got my sights set on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, thanks to Scott. How nasty is that sexual content, though, Scott?

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation looks interesting, too. Gotta look into it.
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It's one scene, and it's a rape. It's not graphic, and it was actually kind of confusing until after it happened... then it was, "Ohh... wow." But it's pretty important to the story, and the scene isn't more than one, maybe two paragraphs.
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That was a fascinating series (thomas covenant). I couldn't stop reading them. I can't decide whether I don't understand what the author was trying to say, or whether I do understand and don't agree.
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I know what you mean. And even if there isn't comprehension of Donaldson's intent on the reader's part, it's still an excellent piece of fiction.

I haven't started on the Second Chronicles of Tom Covenant. Have you? Are they worth it?
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Weeeell, I read them, but it was a long time ago. I don't think that I liked them quite as much as the first trilogy, though. Covenant gets even more self-pitying and pathetic, if possible. (That's the hardest part, for me, the constant self-pity).
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It is hard. Yet one could argue that it makes him a more complete character, more complex and driven to complete his goals only through personal reasons.
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