(12-21-2009 12:54 PM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ] (12-21-2009 09:07 AM)anneBiblestone Wrote: [ -> ]I think jesus says somewhere that if you drink of him you will never thirst again. What does that mean anyway? I know it's talking about salvation, but is that all it's talking about?
Anne, here's my take on that:
Quote:Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4: 13-14
Jesus was talking to a woman at a water well who had had five husbands and now she was living with a guy. I try to imagine the state of her broken heart. Many women endlessly search for that perfect man to complete them, but it never works out because men are fallen human beings. Jesus, our true beloved Husband, satisfies us for eternity.
Cool Lynne. I like your explanation. It makes sense. I'm sorry for interrupting your thread. i can be kind of thoughtless sometimes.
(12-21-2009 03:21 PM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ]I'm getting the impression he might be a genius. I just finished chapter 5 and stopped by here to see what's up.
It may or may not be my cup of tea. It's tricky. I like some books about war, but not ones that describe relentless suffering and violence without much else. The part about Leslie Groves piques my interest. I've studied the Manhattan Project.
I'm not a big science fiction fan at all. I don't even care about the "classics" like Asimov and Heinlein: just had my fill of that stuff by the time I was 16. I have never liked fantasy, except for the LOTR trilogy. But once you've read that. how are you gonna top it? Once you've read
Moby Dick, who needs another novel about whaling? Turtledove writes a
lot of fantasy, but I don't read it.
I like the
Worldwar series, like
The Guns of the South, because of his excellent take on historical characters. Yes, it's silly to think of the earth being invaded by superintelligent lizards: but to see them interacting on a diplomatic basis with real human characters, like Himmler and Molotov and Cordell Hull (my grandfather preached his funeral, and FDR attended) is fascinating. But he also creates the most compelling fictional characters, too: there's no Treblinka or Auschwitz stuff in the Worldwar books, but he describes a mother and daughter in occupied China: the mother is a Maoist, the daughter is just a befuddled teenager. This is very rich stuff, Lynne. And he doesn't focus on the horrors of war too much; it's more a political story than a military one.
If it's a silly premise, well, so was
Frankenstein, but it was a pretty heavy book!
(12-21-2009 07:53 PM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ] (12-21-2009 04:05 PM)anneBiblestone Wrote: [ -> ]Cool Lynne. I like your explanation. It makes sense. I'm sorry for interrupting your thread. i can be kind of thoughtless sometimes.
No problem! Hey, it's our thread.
Absolutely right! Lynne and I tend to monopolize this thread, but it's not ours, it's everybody's. It's not against the rules to talk about several different things at once! In fact, when talking with certain females, I've found it to be almost inevitable....
I just finished
Ruled Britannia! What an amazing book. Thanks so much to my brothers Gary and William for the introduction to Harry Turtledove. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I loved the happy ending. I was a little worried there for awhile that things might turn out so agreeably. Whew, what a relief. All's well that ends well.
(12-24-2009 03:03 AM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ]I just finished Ruled Britannia! What an amazing book. Thanks so much to my brothers Gary and William for the introduction to Harry Turtledove. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I loved the happy ending. I was a little worried there for awhile that things might turn out so agreeably. Whew, what a relief. All's well that ends well.
I'm glad you liked it! But it kinda makes you wish that Shakespeare had really written a play about Baodicea, doesn't it? She sounds interesting.
Turtledove wrote two stand-alone books about a victorious Confederacy:
The Guns of the South and
How Few Remain. The former is his masterpiece; a really beautiful book. But the latter might be of more interest to you. It has the postwar Confederacy stretching from Virginia to New Mexico, and the Mormon territory of Utah in open revolt against the USA. The defeated and disgraced Abraham Lincoln is going around the country preaching Socialism; young Theodore Roosevelt is leading his own homemade regiment against the encroaching Canadians in Montana; and then a new North-South skirmish breaks out in the Arizona territory! I'm telling you so much because I doubt that you'll read it; but you'd enjoy it if you did. (The lengthy conversation between Stonewall Jackson and the captive Frederick Douglass is fascinating.) And, when the great Confederate Cavalry officer, Jeb Stuart, goes to Arizona, he finds an unexpected ally against the Yankees in the great warrior Geronimo!
And then there's the meeting of the CSA and USA forces in the Battle of Tombstone.....
It's a jewel, Lynne. But I hate thinking of these books as "parallel universes" or such like; that's comic book stuff. Turtledove is just reimagining how things might have gone. I love it!
(12-24-2009 12:04 PM)William Wrote: [ -> ] (12-24-2009 03:03 AM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ]I just finished Ruled Britannia! What an amazing book. Thanks so much to my brothers Gary and William for the introduction to Harry Turtledove. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I loved the happy ending. I was a little worried there for awhile that things might turn out so agreeably. Whew, what a relief. All's well that ends well.
I'm glad you liked it! But it kinda makes you wish that Shakespeare had really written a play about Baodicea, doesn't it? She sounds interesting.
Yes! I'd never heard of her, or if I did because I read a lot of stuff set in the Victorian era, she didn't stick. I'll be on the lookout for mention of her from now on.
Quote:The history of these events, as recorded by Tacitus[3] and Cassius Dio,[4] was rediscovered during the Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her "namesake". Boudica has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
I'm almost done with:
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It's bringing back so many good memories. New Mexico is only the next sate over from where I live now, but is a whole different world. How I miss the purple asters and the piñon. Piñon smoke in the cold night air is one of my favorite fragrances.
I notice the reviews on Amazon for this series get better and better as time goes on, but as I've said earlier, I like starting a series at the beginning. I like this much, much better than Tony Hillerman, who've I read quite a bit, but somehow never liked all that much (don't ask me why I read him so much, I just did when I first moved there.) Maybe because it is about a woman.
So, I just put in a request with the library for:
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Thanks
again. Don't know what I'd do without y'all.
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