Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.)

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First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life -- public and private -- of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed high, Dust Tracks on a Road is a rare treasure from one of literature's most cherished voices.

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zora through the eyes of zora.......2005-07-25

This is a highly compromised book. Critics are all over the board on what on earth motivated blatant lies that she told about her life, and the sugar-coating of the realities of the black experience, in america, before civil rights.

I would personally say, that this is a very unfortunate piece. I would give it three stars for its entertainment value.

Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1891, in Alabama, about 10 years before she claims, in ''dust tracks.'' She was not born in Florida.

She essentially falsifies her identity; she shares experiences from about 1900 - 1940, lived by a person who is actually 10 years older than she claims to have been!

College would look like a very different place if you experienced it at 32, than if you were to go through it at 22.

I recommend this work, only if you read it with a current biography next to it.

In hindsight, her presentation of her life and times, compared to our general understanding of her realities makes this work a very interesting historical document.

Khalia.......2003-10-17

This autobiography focuses equally on her opinions (highly untraditional)and her life (also highly unorthodox) giving the reader an unashamed glance to peer into the deepest wells of her being.

Good Book.......2003-03-11

The autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston, "Dust Tracks on the Road", proved to be an incredibly interesting book. This book shows the hardships that Zora underwent during her rise from childhood poverty in the rural south to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. One part of the book that really caught my attention is how Zora manages to give her reader glimpses of a character that is a very public and privet artist, writer, and companion of black heritage. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to deepen as well as straighten their knowledge of the African American Heritige.

A Good Book.......2003-03-08

This autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston was very fascinating. She talks about her childhood on to her others works. I found this very humorous. I recommend this book for anyone wanting a interseting read.

eventually satisfying.......2002-08-14

I've just finished reading this book as a summer reading assignment for school, and to my surprise, I found myself actually enjoying it. I went into the reading of this book with reluctance. I've read THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, and while I enjoyed that book at first, I was always frustrated that the main character had to find herself through dependence on men, namely Tea Cake, whom I despised because of his controlling nature and ultimate betrayal. However, despite my prejudices against it, this book managed to grab my attention.

That is, in the last three chapters. I did not think this book was mostly an account of the other books Hurston has written, as some other readers have stated. Hurston only focused one or two chapters toward the middle of the book on other works, but even then it was only to list when she wrote which book, not to go in depth on the process and motivation. However, it seemed to me that it was an account of Hurston's journey through life, including details on her childhood in Eatonville. This is all well and good, except, especially as Hurston gets into the adult years, she tends to gloss over much of the details, omitting names, and mentioning events which obviously impacted her life yet for some personal reason or another, refusing to describe to the reader these events for fear of who knows what.

This was only the first confusing element. I also had a difficulty with Hurston's writing style. She tends to jump from one anecdote in the middle of another with no explanation before returning to her original story, which left me as the reader, feeling befuddled. The sequence of the chapters, out of her childhood, also does not really seem to follow a sequential storyline.

I was also bothered with Hurston's portrayal of herself, especially her childhood self. She seems to portray herself as the only child there ever was with an active imagination. Perhaps I am actually a member of the privileged minority, but I know that I told myself stories and had imaginary friends when I was a child. I was also very devoted to literature, and reading, as I still am, though Hurston's individualities in that area are more understandable, perhaps, considering the circumstances.

Despite all this, I walked away from this book with a respect for Hurston that I hadn't felt before because of the last three or so chapters in the book where Hurston discusses her thoughts and feelings on her race, and the inter-racial strife which hurt the African-American Civil Rights movement. I also enjoyed the appendix in which the reader is allowed a glimpse at Hurston's more controversial writing.

I don't hold a grudge against Hurston's perhaps unorthodox method of writing an autobiography, far from it. In fact, I think this book would have benefited greatly if Hurston had included more of her personal view points on the world as she did in the last few chapters. Hurston was often criticized for writing African-American literature that was not a rousing cry for Civil Rights, in this book, Hurston finally explains WHY. It also would have been helpful if Hurston either would have detailed the events in her life which were so groundbreaking, or simply not mentioned them at all, instead of saying "Then this happened and it changed my life and for that I will be forever grateful, but I'm not going to tell you anything about what it was." The strange presence of such passages was much more disquieting then their absence would have been.

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great collection.......2005-07-25

This book and its companion from the library of america, have everything that Hurston wrote - except some unedited manuscripts, and some articles and short stories.

Her interest in language, folklore and ritual, and the cult of local color comes through in all of her works. The personalities and struggles, failures and victories of all of her characters become real for the reader.

She is writing earlier in the 20th century, when people were starting to buy radios and automobiles -- she saw a lot of the south, and north, rapidly transform into the beginnings of the consumer culture we know today.

When I read Hurston, it is like I feel an anxiety to preserve. I sense a underlying insight, that she probably had, that within a couple of generations, the rhythm of life would radically change.

I think she saw that a lot of the folk traditions and rituals in North America would disappear, so she did what she could to demonstrate a vibrant african american cultural life, as she knew it, and interpreted it.

The two collections of Hurston's work show the span of her writing, over her lifetime. These pieces reveal how many of her imagination and many of her themes and character-types evolve over the years.

I recommend the two volumes.

Any Hurston writing is worth the reading.......2000-07-08

The debate of whether Ms Hurston was a true Harlem Renaissance writer is does so little justice to her contributions to that scene that I spent an entire semester debating it. Of course she was and she was one of the writers who helped give it its significance. Just the scene in Jonah's Gourd where she is talking about the physical features of the male protagonist is important enough. Her "peope" are real and you wonder if she had interacted with them in real life because they are your neighbors, relatives and friends...they are just that touchable. Her pain in life comes through all her books but you are so busy savoring her prose that you only wonder about it after you are done. The best thing to do is to gather several authors from that period and read them all. She is among the genius of the era but you will see how far she stands out from the brilliant.

Dust tracks on a road, an autobiography.

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Dust tracks on a road, an autobiography.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Dust Tracks on a Road: an Autobiography
Zora Neale Hurston
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Dust Tracks on a Road : An Autobiography
Zora Neale; Hemenway, Robert (editor) Hurston
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Seducing Celeste (Those Sullivan Sisters) (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No 1065)
Ruth Ryan Langan
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Great reason to attend a high school reunion

Another solid work by Leto!!

A book worth hunting for

Just add a kiss to ignite banked coals...

SEDUCING SULLIVAN will leave you wanting more from Ms. Leto!
Seducing Sullivan
Julie Elizabeth Leto
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She just has to have him . . .

After all, it's been ten whole years since Angela Harris last saw sexy, mischievous Jack Sullivan. And now with their upcoming high school reunion, she finally has a chance to answer one provocative question -- Would life have been different if they'd slept together ten years before? Jack's been on her mind and in her fantasies ever since high school. But can real life actually hope to compete with years of yearning?

But he's in for the long haul

Seducing Jack turns out to be surprisingly -- no, make that tantalizingly -- easy. But now that their weekend fling is a done deal, he won't let go. That is, until Jack gets wind of Angela's secret -- a secret that could unravel his life for good.

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She just has to have him... After all, it's been ten whole years since Angela Harris last saw sexy, mischievous Jack Sullivan. And now with their upcoming high school reunion, she finally has a chance to answer one provocative question - Would life have been different if they'd slept together ten years before? Jack's been on her mind and in her fantasies ever since high school. But can real life actually hope to compete with years of yearning? Seducing Jack turns out to be surprisingly - no, make that tantalizingly - easy. But now that their weekend fling is a done deal, he won't let go. That is, until Jack gets wind of Angela's secret - a secret that could unravel his life for good.

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Great reason to attend a high school reunion.......2006-06-06

Angela has always pined for Jack Sullivan - the one that got away. On prom night, she was ready to finally give herself to him, but a quarrel had them leaving with separate people, with life-altering results. So when it's time for the high school reunion, she decides to get her groove on and finally seduce the man who occupies her erotic dreams.

Jack is more than willing to be seduced. A wealthy and award-winning photographer, he's used to beautiful women and uncomplicated romances. What he's not ready for is falling head over heels for Angela. He's wracked with guilt since he slept with her best friend on prom night. Unbeknownst to him, that liaison resulted in a child; a child who Angela now has custody of since her best friend died in a car accident, leaving custody to Angela. She has to put her trust in Jack when he helps her land a big account, resulting in them getting closer. But will he forgive her when he finds out that she has been hiding a big secret?

Leto mines the oft-used secret pregnancy plotline with good results. Though the story is a bit predictable, Leto's writing skills make the plotline appear refreshing giving credence to why she is a successful storyteller.

Another solid work by Leto!!.......2002-11-27

Seducing Sullivan is missing some of the wit Leto spices her other works with, but she still delivers a winning tale. She is one of the best in creating such 'real' characters. They are not larger than life fictional characters, but everyday hard working people, that are so warm, vulnerable and caring. It is her strong suit, and it sets her away from other writers.
Seducing Sullivan is a book of wishes and what-ifs. Angela Harris goes to her 10 year High School reunion with one purpose in mind: to have her 'prom night' with Jack Sullivan. They were an item during high school, but Angela the 'good girl' kept putting Jack off. On prom night, she had prepared to give herself to him, but they ended in an argument and them breaking up. Now a decade later, Angela knows it is time to get over her teenage love for Jack, and put him behind her once and for all, but the feels the only what to do this is to finish that night, find out the reality falls short of years of fantasy.

She needs to face Jack and settle her girlhood dreams, but she also need to see what sort of man Jack has become. His parents were jet-setters and from what she saw in the Tabloids, Jack has taken after them. He is world famous photographer, and has been linked to one model after another. Hardly material to be considered for marriage and fatherhood. Angela needs to know what sort of man he is because of Dani, her daughter. That prom night 10 years ago, after their breakup, Jack went out with her best-friend and got drunk. The result was Dani. 5 Years ago, Dani's mother, Angela's best-friend was killed and she was made Dani's guardian. She had no idea Jack was the father of Dani until she began trying to track down the man who fathered her.

Angela is a very real person. She feels things for Jack, but does not trust him, she loves her best friend and utterly adores Dani, yet she also feels twinges of regret and resentment over how things turned out, betrayed by both her friend and Jack. This is quite human. She is no paperdoll character, but a complex woman.

Jack believes Angela never knew about his drunken night with her best friend, and fears Angela would never speak to him again if she found out. He never knew or suspected about Dani. However, he comes to the class union hoping to find Angela. He has never know a family or home, and something inside him is crying out for this sort of security, and his heart tells him Angela 'his angel' is the woman to heal him and give him hope for the future. He unprepared for the siren who sets out to seduce him, just to get over him, but he is not about to let her go.

Once again, Leto gives 3 dimensional characters that leap off the page, with crisp writing that just gets better with each book. She is fresh, original and a rising star in the romance field.

A book worth hunting for.......2000-06-05

After I'd read Ms. Leto's newest release, Good Girls Do!, I knew I had to hunt down her backlist, and I'm sure glad I was able to locate Seducing Sullivan. Seducing Sullivan doesn't have the playfulness of Good Girls Do!; what it has are a sympathetic hero and heroine who will tear at your emotions, involved in a believable and wrenching plot about love remembered and love reclaimed. The only problem I had initially was trying to decipher Angela's real reasons for "getting Jack Sullivan out of her system." This didn't detract from my enjoyment of the book, however and, in fact, helped me understand where Angela was coming from. Anyone would be very lucky to have her as a friend, as Jack ultimately discovers. In the end, I found my heart hurting for Jack as the story resolves itself.

I highly recommend you try and find this book.

Just add a kiss to ignite banked coals..........1998-09-13

I really enjoyed Sullivan and "Angel." Ms. Leto knows how to develop her characters and show you what's going on inside their hearts and minds. (The author's rule of thumb: "show, don't tell" is often the main nemesis of the writer, both beginner and "old hand".) The motivation behind the love making is plausible and not gratuitous, if you know what I mean. (I really don't enjoy reading about characters who jump in the sack immediately after they have just met. To me, it seems contrived. Or, my sense is they are really only in it for the sex, and not the love.) Sullivan and Angel have that spark of love, and I enjoyed reading about them. They are caring and loving towards one another.

I had no idea that this was Ms. Leto's first book! I was going to look for her earlier titles so I could read what I'd missed! But I guess, no such luck.

As they say in New Zealand, "Good on ya!" Julie!!

SEDUCING SULLIVAN will leave you wanting more from Ms. Leto!.......1998-09-05

Julie Elizabeth Leto defines the Temptation "Blaze" series! SEDUCING SULLIVAN is ultra-sexy, very contemporary, and thoroughly engrossing. Her writing is rich and textured, her characters fully developed, and the plot is provocative and seductive. A real page-turner! If you like your stories "Blazing", then put Julie Elizabeth Leto at the top of your reading list.

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Seducing Sullivan
Julie Elizabeth Leto
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Leto
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Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection, and A Stitch in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien.

CARDASSIA: The last world ravaged by the Dominion War is also the last on which Miles O'Brien ever imagined building a life. As he joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia's infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet's difficult agricultural renewal. But Cardassia's struggle to remake itself -- from the fledgling democracy backed by Elim Garak to the people's rediscovery of their own spiritual past -- is not without opposition, as the outside efforts to help rebuild its civilization come under attack by those who reject any alien influence.

ANDOR: On the eve of a great celebration of their ancient past, the unusual and mysterious Andorians, a species with four sexes, must decide just how much they are willing to sacrifice in order to ensure their survival. Biological necessity clashes with personal ethics; cultural obligation vies with love -- and Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane returns home to the planet he forswore, to face not only the consequences of his choices, but a clandestine plan to alter the very nature of his kind.

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Cardassia needs tighter but Andor better.......2006-08-17

These two novelletes are entertaining and give the dedicated ST reader more background on both planets. The Cardassia part however is not as well written and feels loose. The Andor is better.

Brilliant - with a minor flaw!.......2006-04-08

This review is based solely on the Andorian story, as I could find nothing wrong with the Cardassian story.

While for the majority of the second half of this brilliant book it flowed brilliantly, weaving an intriguing story line with fascinating insights in to the Andorian culture and sexuality - the author ruined the mood of the book and what I felt was Shar's most promising aspect in one foul swoop!

While a last minute attempt in the Epilogue has left me feeling a bit better then I was before I read it, I still am upset at the way it turned out.

Call me a hopeless romantic, but I feel that it should have gone another way. For those who have read the book, you will know of what I speak. For those who are looking to buy this book, I highly recommend it. Until the very end it has no flaws, keeping you interested the whole way (hence my 4am lights out last night). However for the romantics out there, or for those who are deeply attached to Prynn or Shar (or both), beware. Read it - but beware!

Josh

Worlds of DS9 part 1.......2005-12-15

The book consists of two mini novels namely, The Lotus Flower (Cardassia) and Paradigm (Andor). I found both stories average to below average.

The Lotus Flower was mostly a story which focuses on the O'brian family and how they are dealing with life on Cardassia. The story also gets into politics on Cardassia as well, but I thought that aspect of the story was rather weak. The author seems to have more of a talent for getting into the characters heads and giving us internal dialogue. I found Keiko O'brian's thoughts and internal dialogue very interesting. Keiko's character on the whole was better than any of the other characters. It seemed as though she was the only character the author really cared all that much about. I think that the statement about the Lotus Flower sprouting beatifully from a dirty pond says a lot. It sounds rather simplistic but is very profound in that it can be applied to so many things.

Paradigm, was mostly a love story (Prynn and Shar) but like The Lotus Flower, it revolved around politics as well. One thing which annoyed me about this story is that it didn't get into the most pressing questions I have about Andorian psysiology. The species has four sexes (two male and two female), yet the story didn't get into the details of how conception takes place.

3 stars for Cardassia, 1 star for Andor.......2005-07-29

Una McCormack's Cardassia story is a solid effort, with a welcome back into the fold (sort of) of the O'Brien clan. The politics of Keiko's project on Cardassia are interesting to watch, and it's always great fun to see Garak and Gul Macet. I liked the writing and found the story engaging and tense. 3 stars

Heather Jarman's Andor story, though, was written with the romantic sensibilities of a 16 year old girl and the political sensibilities of a high school class president. The story is dull and the writing is confused, with ridiculous onomatopoeia, over-the-top writing, and wandering points of view. If not for the continuing DS9 story, I would have skipped this one after about 20 pages. 1 star

A look at Cardassian Politics and Andorian Sexuality.......2005-05-31

I'm rather split on this book. You have two seperate stories, one that truly is a short story and another that I feel could have been it's own novel. If this review was based only on Una McCormack's "The Lotus Flower," I may have given it an average rating. Yet, there's a lot more to this first volume. Not only do you have DS9's staple alien foe, the Cardassians, taking the spotlight, but you also have the mysterious Andorians, only touched on by the Original Series, Enterprise and this relaunch of Deep Space Nine.

First, McCormack's "The Lotus Flower." While Robinson's look at the Cardassians post-DS9 series finale was engaging and in depth, I felt this story was just weak. It didn't get my interest until the ending, then I was left having to review the entire story in order to understand all the outcomes. It took me forever to get through this book simply because of this story. Here, the O'Briens make their move to Cardassia, which is letting in the Federation to help rebuild it after being decimated by the war. The entire plot seems to hinge on if Keiko's new position and project are going to be well received. By the second chapter or so, the outcome is rather predictable. You have a touch of Cardassian religion, which I found interesting since the series never touched on it.

There are a lot of characters involved here as well. I felt as if a review of the Cardassians in the government could have benefited the story some. I contiually paused and asked "who's this?" or looked up the episode reference to see where all of these characters appeared and how they fit into the plot. You'd have to have read Andrew Robinson's "A Stitch in Time" to get a proper introduction to all of these characters and the current political situation on Cardassia. Not only that, but you'd have to have all the information from that novel pretty well memorized in order to make all the connections in this story.

The plot seemed to go quickly in some parts and drag on it others. To me, Keiko's characterization was also a bit off. I mean, I never took her as being a chippy, hyper, continually optimistic person all the time. The last few seasons of Deep Space Nine portrayed her differently, perhaps a little more pessimistic and moodier than she was here. She continually was yelling or having a whine-type feel to her with too many exclamation points that simply made my eyes role. O'Brien seemed to be on mark, but he was reduced to being rather angry or tense. The Cardassians for the most part were the most interesting of the bunch. Garak less so than those Keiko is working with.

The Andorian story, "Paradigm," by Heather Jarman is a different story. It's much more engaging and plays between different emotions and subject matters. While "The Lotus Flower" seems to be more of an allegory for the world situation today where politics and religion can't seem to find a way to meet in the middle with one another, "Paradigm" takes Ensign Shar's story even further. He returns to Andor at the request of his mother. Her career is on the line, Andor's future is also threatened.

It reads like a romance novel at some places. The weakness of the story comes from the inclusion of Prynn Tenemi and how sappy and juvenile she's portrayed. The added bonus of this story is that the new character, Counselor Phillipa Matthis. She's not the usual counselor, not what we've come to expect from such a character. Seeing her interact with Shar, Prynn and the other Andorians is the best part of the story. Also, it's easy to follow all the plot threads. It starts off slow, picks up and keeps your interest throughout.

Even though some of this novel conflicts with Andorians as they were seen in the series Enterprise, it's a great read. I'd pick up the novel just for Jarman's story. Perhaps others will find the Cardassian story more engaging and interesting than I did. Regardless, it's worth your money and attention.

CARDASSIA AND ANDOR (WORLDS OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, NO 1)

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CARDASSIA AND ANDOR (WORLDS OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, NO 1)
UNA MCCORMACK
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An elderly lady once left $20,000 and "my Bible and all it contains" to her nephew. The young man knew what the Bible contained so he didn't bother to open it. He merely picked it up and put it on a high shelf in his house, and headed for Las Vegas.

It wasn't long until all his money was gone. He lived the next 60 years as a pauper, scraping for every meal and barely having the clothes on his back.

As he was moving to a convalescent home he reached up to grab that old Bible and accidentally dropped it from his trembling hands. It fell to the floor and opened, revealing a $100 bill between every page.

That man lived his life as a pauper when he could have lived in luxury, simply because of his prejudice. He thought he knew what the Bible contained.

Most people don't know that the Bible contains a wealth of incredible scientific, medical and prophetic facts. The implications are mind boggling…

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Does more harm than good.......2007-06-02

I am a Christian, and I certainly don't think you have to be an idiot to believe in the Bible and I think there are some wonderful sources in the world if you feel pressed to justify your beliefs on an intellectual level, BUT...this is not one of those sources. It is full of mistakes and misinformation. I hope it is accidental rather than deliberate, but I do have to warn you that using these arguments to justify the Christian faith will only feed the secular view that there is nothing intelligent about Christianity.
He tells outright lies about Columbus that even a grade-schooler could catch (as another reviewer mentioned)...buy something by Chuck Missler instead...he's a little more esoteric, but a far better scientist and scholar (as well as a Bible believer).

Incredibly stupid book!.......2006-11-16

This is the silliest, goofiest book I have read in a long time. There is no gentle way to say this: the author is a man of exceedingly modest intellectual capacity. He does not understand evolution. He does not understand science. He has an idiosyncratic understanding of the Bible that one can only marvel at - or else heartily laugh at!

If his intended audience was kindergarten classes, then he has been successful.

Here are some examples of the Bible's science:

Evidence of atoms: "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Hebrews 11:3

Radio waves: "Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?" Job 38:35

Job 38:19 "Where is the way where light dwells?" This implies electromagnetic radiation and light travelling at 186,000 mpsecond.

By talking of heavens & "highest heavens", the Bible was explaining galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

"...neither shall you eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field..." Exodus 22:31 He hails this as insight into bacterial contamination!

He quotes a lot of notable people on their biblical faith - but most are centuries dead and not a few are taken out of context (e.g. Einstein who clearly stated his "God" was not the Christian God). His section on archeology is a farce - or state of the art for the 17th century if you prefer. His discussion of evolution is so warped as to make one wonder if he has EVER bothered reading even a high school biology textbook.

I don't think any reasonable, rational, semi-conscious Christian can take much "comfort" in this embarrassing book. I went to Comfort's web site to get further insight and I came away thinking this is a man with a GIANT ego and he has absolutely no basis for his self-congratulatory egotism.

This book is useless, except for chuckles.

Well written and fun to read........2006-08-10

Do I believe this book was a little bit biased? Yes, I do but, generally speaking, it was full of great information. I am educating myself on the Evolution Theory and the more I study it, the more I see that it makes much more sense to believe in a Creator than to believe in chance. If natural selection is true, then in order to select, it must have some kind of programming, if you will, to let it know which species were weak and deserved to be extinct and which ones were strong and deserved to exist. Just a few of the 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin were not convincing to me at all. I would say, less than 10 of the 100 reasons Ray Comfort gave were not too convincing, but overall, the book is worth reading. Good reference for those in a hurry. I highly recommend this book.

This is a Awesome Book..........2006-07-16

This book has opened my eyes. It is full of truthful facts that I never knew was in the bible. It is a must for everybody to read. And to comment on what E. Lores said; I think you need to open your eyes b/c everything in that book clearly comes right out of the bible... I think you need to make sure that you know what your saying before you open up your big mouth...

Not as good as it sounds.......2005-01-19

This book is fun to read, yes, no question about that, the problem are the facts inside.

In the first pages I found the first error. I continued, but without knowing if what I was reading was true. For example, Mr. Comfort, in page 12, states: "It was another 2000 years later (at a time when science believed that the earth was flat) that the scriptures inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world." Well, the problem is that, first, Columbus wasn't inspired by scriptures and, second, in those times people didn't believe that the earth was flat.

I am a Christian, and I'm very disappointed. Mr. Comfort's efforts to find evidence of modern science, modern hygiene and even dinosaurs in the Bible are simply unbelievable, and many times feels forced. He even quotes famous people on the Bible, I mean, if Napoleon said anything good about the Bible, that is a proof of is supernatural origin? He founds what his eyes want to find, he understands what he wants to understand... The worst is that he sees things that are not there and compares it to data that is wrong... The result is a fun but messy book.

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