Reading Books For Pleasure

[FurryFury]

What's The Shack about?
The title sounds interesting.

It's about a guy whose child (one of four I think) is taken and killed but the body is never found. He becomes angry with God and for the most part loses his faith.

Then, one day, a note to meet at the shack comes. The shack is where they think his little girl was taken and possibly killed. The note is signed by Papa. Papa is his wives name for God.

This man ran away from home at 16 because his papa was abusive.

So he goes to the shack without telling his wife and meets someone claiming to be God or Papa, someone claiming to be Jesus and someone claiming to be the Holy Ghost.

During his time he reaffirms his faith and finds out where the body of his child is.

Some religious people say this book strengthened their faith. Others are angry about it and say there a huge horrible biblical errors in it. I was told the book would not "preach" to me.

LMAO.

It's an interesting book. It has some great ideas in it. Some lines of text put a hook in your heart and pulls at it.

Some of it is so repetitive and of such circular, but not logical, discourse that I found it irritating.

 

[Alyssa1]

It's about a guy whose child (one of four I think) is taken and killed but the body is never found. He becomes angry with God and for the most part loses his faith.

Then, one day, a note to meet at the shack comes. The shack is where they think his little girl was taken and possibly killed. The note is signed by Papa. Papa is his wives name for God.

This man ran away from home at 16 because his papa was abusive.

So he goes to the shack without telling his wife and meets someone claiming to be God or Papa, someone claiming to be Jesus and someone claiming to be the Holy Ghost.

During his time he reaffirms his faith and finds out where the body of his child is.

Some religious people say this book strengthened their faith. Others are angry about it and say there a huge horrible biblical errors in it. I was told the book would not "preach" to me.

LMAO.

It's an interesting book. It has some great ideas in it. Some lines of text put a hook in your heart and pulls at it.

Some of it is so repetitive and of such circular, but not logical, discourse that I found it irritating.

Aw, that sounds interesting. I'm gonna have to borrow it when I go back to the library.

Thanks.

 

[FurryFury]

Aw, that sounds interesting. I'm gonna have to borrow it when I go back to the library.

Thanks.

Sure!

My pleasure.

It's interesting in a lot of ways, IMO.

 

[FurryFury]

BTW, the best thing I've found that states my views better than I could on The Shack is here:

http://de-conversion.com/2008/09/08/william-p-youngs-the-shack/

 

[Alyssa1]

BTW, the best thing I've found that states my views better than I could on The Shack is here:

http://de-conversion.com/2008/09/08/william-p-youngs-the-shack/

Thanks. That was interesting, Furry!

 

[FurryFury]

Thanks. That was interesting, Furry!

I'm glad you found it interesting!

 

[FurryFury]

Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill 2.5/5 was m'kay. It's also YA.

 

[DarkAmaranth]

I've recently read 'Peoplewatching' by Desmond Morris. It's quite thick to trawl through, but there are a lot of interesting bits of info in there not just about the different signs thrown out by subconscious body language, but also about where the actions stem from. Cerainly I found it a good read, but then again I will readily admit that a large part of me is a science geek lol.

 

[FurryFury]

I've recently read 'Peoplewatching' by Desmond Morris. It's quite thick to trawl through, but there are a lot of interesting bits of info in there not just about the different signs thrown out by subconscious body language, but also about where the actions stem from. Cerainly I found it a good read, but then again I will readily admit that a large part of me is a science geek lol.

Sounds interesting.

 

[ShyVixen]

Sorry I haven't posted anything else on The Shack discussion, been away for a few days so haven't been able to get to my computer. Will post my thoughts etc later

Am now reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. I thought I was going to dislike this book, however from the opening page it's hooked me. It's compelling and compulsive. Even now I can't wait to get back to it.

 

[FurryFury]

Yum! I love books like that!

I'll look forward to hearing your thoughts about The Shack!

Sorry I haven't posted anything else on The Shack discussion, been away for a few days so haven't been able to get to my computer. Will post my thoughts etc later

Am now reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. I thought I was going to dislike this book, however from the opening page it's hooked me. It's compelling and compulsive. Even now I can't wait to get back to it.

 

[FurryFury]

Kindred by Octavia Butler 5/5

Goooooood stuuuuuuuf!

 

[FurryFury]

Thistle and Twigg by Mary Saums was adorable even though it had some supernatural elements. I expected it to suck but I liked it a LOT.

 

[Gilroygal69]

I am a huge bibliophile and often experience post novel letdown. Particularly in the case of a juicy series. A good saga really gets my blood pumping and I always want more, no matter how many are in the series. Right now, I am waiting with bated breath for the new Outlander novel "Echo In The Bone". It was supposed to be out late last year and I'm dying with anticipation!

The way you describe your addiction sounds very similar to my own. I always stay up too late reading and I get kind of twitchy when I don't have something to read.

I enjoy vampire lore, but find that most of it is way too cornball for me. Maybe I will check out the book you mentioned. I'm always looking for something new and delicious to sink my literary teeth into. I really enjoyed "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, which is also about Dracula, but it's a vampire novel with kind of an academic/historical twist. Sounds dry, but I loved it.

Heh. Kind of funny. I join a BDSM forum and end up talking about books! Oh well. Two things I truly love. Why not combine them?

 

[FurryFury]

Yes! Why not do both! We have a BDSM book of the month Club here too. Didja know?

I find a lot of vamp stuff to be far to romancy for my tastes but I also don't like Dracula type things.

What I enjoy is vampires as solid characters with a sense or right and wrong.

 

[ShyVixen]

A little late, but my thoughts on The Shack:

It was an interesting exercise in taking bible study outside of the church. There were some ideas I found endearing - finding god not in a church but in the relationships and interactions with other people.

However, for a book that was billed as life changing and not a sermon - I found it very sermonising. By the end I just felt I'd been sermonised too. Definitely not a life changing book for me.

Now The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson had a more profound affect on me and my thoughts. Life, love and death all mixed into one. At times the story was a bit contrived but it was wonderful.

Now reading a romantic suspense - Dangerous Deceptions by Beverly Barton.

 

[FurryFury]

I so agree with you. I was told it didn't preach. Well IMO, it sure did and a great deal of curricular, logic off, preaching it was.

But, finding God NOT in a church or indeed, into organized religion at all, nor politics nor economics was interesting and good.

The idea that God submits to us and we should to God thereby accepting whatever shit happens as part of the plan, NOT okay for my way of thinking. Sure I love the idea of submission but hey, hard limits include NOT killing and not allowing the brutal murder of my kids.

A little late, but my thoughts on The Shack:

It was an interesting exercise in taking bible study outside of the church. There were some ideas I found endearing - finding god not in a church but in the relationships and interactions with other people.

However, for a book that was billed as life changing and not a sermon - I found it very sermonising. By the end I just felt I'd been sermonised too. Definitely not a life changing book for me.

Now The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson had a more profound affect on me and my thoughts. Life, love and death all mixed into one. At times the story was a bit contrived but it was wonderful.

Now reading a romantic suspense - Dangerous Deceptions by Beverly Barton.

 

[ShyVixen]

The idea that God submits to us and we should to God thereby accepting whatever shit happens as part of the plan, NOT okay for my way of thinking. Sure I love the idea of submission but hey, hard limits include NOT killing and not allowing the brutal murder of my kids.

That was one of the things I struggled with too. But then I also struggle with the bible's teaching of you should love God and Jesus more than your own children. And that is all I'm going to say without getting into the politics of religion.

I'm glad to find someone who feels the same way I do. Some of my friends are religious, and they read it and loved it, claiming it was profound.

 

[FurryFury]

That was one of the things I struggled with too. But then I also struggle with the bible's teaching of you should love God and Jesus more than your own children. And that is all I'm going to say without getting into the politics of religion.

I'm glad to find someone who feels the same way I do. Some of my friends are religious, and they read it and loved it, claiming it was profound.

I know some religious people who hate it but I'm not sure they've read it. I think they are just listening to some preacher tell them what's wrong with it and all that sort of BS.

I agree about the loving god more than your own children. If I believed in god and s/he told me to kill my own child, I'd stop believing right fucking there!

 

[FurryFury]

The Map of Moments by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon 2/5 was disappointing to me. It derives it rating principally from it's setting New Orleans.

I love reading good books set there. This one had the added advantage of being set just two and a half months after Katrina.

However, it meandered, obfuscated and never truly concluded it's story. I came away from it, thinking, that none of the story mattered in how things turned out, at all.

*le sigh*

 

[DarkAmaranth]

I am a huge bibliophile and often experience post novel letdown. Particularly in the case of a juicy series. A good saga really gets my blood pumping and I always want more, no matter how many are in the series. Right now, I am waiting with bated breath for the new Outlander novel "Echo In The Bone". It was supposed to be out late last year and I'm dying with anticipation!

The way you describe your addiction sounds very similar to my own. I always stay up too late reading and I get kind of twitchy when I don't have something to read.

I enjoy vampire lore, but find that most of it is way too cornball for me. Maybe I will check out the book you mentioned. I'm always looking for something new and delicious to sink my literary teeth into. I really enjoyed "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, which is also about Dracula, but it's a vampire novel with kind of an academic/historical twist. Sounds dry, but I loved it.

Heh. Kind of funny. I join a BDSM forum and end up talking about books! Oh well. Two things I truly love. Why not combine them?

I agree with you about "The Historian" - I was given it as a present and ended up really enjoying it, despite the fact that it's not a genre I read too much of. I would recommend avoiding it as a bedtime read though lol

 

[ShyVixen]

I'm reading Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay. It's good to be getting my Dexter fix again!

 

[FurryFury]

I'm reading Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay. It's good to be getting my Dexter fix again!

Kewl! How do the books and the TV series differ and how are they the same? I've been curious!

 

[ShyVixen]

Kewl! How do the books and the TV series differ and how are they the same? I've been curious!

For me, the tv is obviously more slick. Pretty much everything else is the same, except we get in depth views of Dex's Dark Passenger. This book is extremely funny because his dark side is in hiding. Dex is much more human (yet personally I prefer when he doesn't have emotions as such).

Got to love dark humour

I will admit, before I watched the tv show I found the books slightly disturbing but that has abated somewhat now.

 

[FurryFury]

For me, the tv is obviously more slick. Pretty much everything else is the same, except we get in depth views of Dex's Dark Passenger. This book is extremely funny because his dark side is in hiding. Dex is much more human (yet personally I prefer when he doesn't have emotions as such).

Got to love dark humour

I will admit, before I watched the tv show I found the books slightly disturbing but that has abated somewhat now.

Thanks for that explanation! That's what I was worried about with the books. I didn't want to read something that would feed my nightmares.