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The thread's getting derailed, Lynne. Fix it! Fix it!

(12-10-2009 06:44 PM)William Wrote: [ -> ]The thread's getting derailed, Lynne. Fix it! Fix it!

Okay, okay... um, I finished Ms. Smirk and I'm still reading the books I mentioned before.

I hate to say it, because Turtledove is my favorite popular author, but so far I'm not terribly riveted by this one.

The thesis is that, in 1938, when they met to sign the Munich Accord, delivering Czechoslovakia to Hitler, Neville Chamberlain unexpectedly developed some backbone and said "Nein," thus infuriating Hitler and causing World War II to immediately break out between the Allies (England, France, and Russia) and the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain). Since nobody was really prepared for war at that point, things got very dicey, but Hitler was Hitler, and nothing but war would satisfy him.

Much of the book is taken up with fictionalized accounts of the American Communists and left-wingers who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight the Fascists in Spain. The Spanish Civil War has been so over-glamorized, for political purposes, by such people as Hemingway, that it is a burden and an agony for me to read any more about it.

Most of the novel takes place on the battlefields, not in the conference rooms, and so Chamberlain and other historical figures appear very infrequently. Turtledove's fictional characters are strong, as usual, including a Jewish family trying to get out of Czechoslovakia before the Nazis come; but overall, it's just not my cup of tea.

Turtledove's earlier novel, The Man with the Iron Heart, about the adventures of Reinhard Heydrich (who, in the book, was not assassinated), was much better, at least according to my tastes.

Hitler's War is apparently the first in a series. I may give the others a pass.

I was excited about starting Edmund Crispin, but alas, I like to read series in order and the first isn't available on audiobook. I had to order the book because my library doesn't have it and now I find it's back ordered:



So, in the meantime, I've just downloaded:



My latest whodunit.

Finished Dr. Ruckman's "How to Teach Dispensational Truth" last night and started on "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" by CI Scofield.

Am also working my way through Deuteronomy in my Bible reading.

Gary

(12-17-2009 12:18 PM)Gary Wrote: [ -> ]Finished Dr. Ruckman's "How to Teach Dispensational Truth" last night and started on "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" by CI Scofield.

Am also working my way through Deuteronomy in my Bible reading.

Gary

Boy, those two books alone will put you about a hundred miles ahead of 2/3rds of the pastors in this country! Scofield wasn't perfect, but that little book is a gem.

Lynne, it isn't really necessary to read the Fen books in order; and Gilded Fly is not the best in the series. I prefer to read series books in order, too, like the Mary Russell books and Harry Turtledove's series (is "series" its own plural?); but it's not always necessary. The James Bond books (which were so infinitely superior to the movies) could be read out of order, too. (I mean Fleming's books; the successors haven't been worth the paper they were printed on.) So can these, which I will continue to recommend until you actually read one (I'm only showing you three of them):

Hey, I was in Coles today and they don't have any Laurie King or Joyce Carol Oates on the shelves. You have to go to their sister stores, Indigo or Chapters, to get a real variety of authors, it seems. Just so happens I wasn't looking to buy today, anyway.

I picked up a local, real-life crime drama instead, although it'll be after Christmas before I actually read it.

(12-17-2009 03:18 PM)William Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-17-2009 12:18 PM)Gary Wrote: [ -> ]Finished Dr. Ruckman's "How to Teach Dispensational Truth" last night and started on "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" by CI Scofield.

Am also working my way through Deuteronomy in my Bible reading.

Gary

Boy, those two books alone will put you about a hundred miles ahead of 2/3rds of the pastors in this country! Scofield wasn't perfect, but that little book is a gem.

Lynne, it isn't really necessary to read the Fen books in order; and Gilded Fly is not the best in the series. I prefer to read series books in order, too, like the Mary Russell books and Harry Turtledove's series (is "series" its own plural?); but it's not always necessary. The James Bond books (which were so infinitely superior to the movies) could be read out of order, too. (I mean Fleming's books; the successors haven't been worth the paper they were printed on.) So can these, which I will continue to recommend until you actually read one (I'm only showing you three of them):

I love Tony Hillerman Mystries, Are these ones you suggested to Lynne of similar writing? I need what I call some escape reading.
Half way through Scofield's book going to read Larkin's on Rightly DIviding next, and then plan to move onto Dispensational Truth. The subject matter in Dr. Ruckman's and Scofield's books is fascinating. Irts like finding achest of buried treasure for this old mainline dispensation boy. "Looking towards the Cross" what nonsens it never made sense to me.

Gary