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It is spring in the village of Thrush Green. In neighboring Lulling, Charles Henstock admires the blooming garden of his new vicarage, glad that the squabbles with his parishoners in Affairs at Thrush Green are settled. And yet the good vicar wistfully recalls his former home - the ugly, old rectory of Thrush Green, which burned to the ground. Now, from the rectory's ruins, the villagers are building eight retirement homes for the older folks most in need. But how to choose who will live there? How will they get on together? And how will they accommodate the dogs, cats, and birds that must come along? The spring has brought a new crop of dilemmas, but Dr. Henstock and the villagers are determined to make the old people feel at home in Thrush Green. In the end, harmony is restored to this tiny fictional world. With wit and grace, Miss Read has charmed numerous critics and won the loyalty of readers who will happily find themselves once more At Home in Thrush Green.
Customer Reviews:
Comfort reading.......2002-11-16
Miss Read's books are as comforting as cup of hot tea on a cold day. The world of Thrush Green is endearing but not so perfect that it is uninteresting. It is inhabited by characters that are by turn charming,wise,eccentric and down-right irritating! The stories, set in a fictional town in modern England, portray a pace of life that is appealing to those of us who live in the busy, disconnected world of 21st century America and while they are somewhat idealized, the real world is allowed to intrude and the characters must deal with some of the same situations we face in our own lives....aging relatives, loss and disappointment. Yet the book always leaves you with the feeling that life is good. If you like Jan Karon or Jane Austen, you will love Miss Read.
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At Home in Thrush Green
Miss Read
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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- Reckless Love
- I didn't care for it at all...
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- A Wonderful Love Adventure!
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Reckless Love (MacKenzie-Blackthorn, Book1)
Elizabeth Lowell
Manufacturer: HQN Books
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Janna Wayland has survived in treacherous Utah Territory by using her wits, her grit and her knife. She is as bold and free as Lucifer, the wild stallion she vows to protect from men who would stop at nothing to possess him. Men like Ty McKenzie, whose will to survive is as strong as her own.
Nursing Ty back from death's grasp, she realizes that neither Lucifer nor her heart are safe from this man's fierce determination. Now Janna must follow Ty on a perilous trek through the badlands, battling renegade warriors, the elements and her own reckless heart with a fury that can be tamed only by love itself.
Customer Reviews:
Reckless Love.......2007-09-27
Not as great an introduction to the MacKenzie-Blackthorn saga as I had hoped. Books 2,3,4and 5 were much better and remain among my favorites.
I didn't care for it at all..........2007-06-25
Description from the back of book:
Bold choices...daring dreams
Utah Territory. A forbidding world of mesas and steep canyons, a land as harsh as it is beautiful, as treacherous as it is beguiling--the last place a woman would call home.
Janna has survived in the badlands by her wits, her determination and her knife. She is as bold and free as Lucifer, the wild stallion she vows to protect from those who will stop at nothing to possess him. Men like Ty MacKenzie, whose will to survive is as strong as her own.
Nursing Ty back from death's grasp, she realizes quickly that neither Lucifer nor her heart is safe from this man's fierce strength and determination. With no choice but to live as his ally, Janna must follow Ty on a perilous trek through the blazing land, battling the elements, danger and her own reckless heart with a fury that can only be tamed by love itself.
* I want to start off by saying that I am a bookworm & that all I read are romance books & most of them happen to be historical. I'm a big fan of Historical romances & I read on average 1 per week. Having said that I also want to point out that this is the first book that I've read by Elizabeth Lowell & I wasn't impressed. Her writing wasn't bad I just didn't care for this book. I didn't like the setting & I absolutely hated Ty's pet names for Janna that you used a million times & I didn't get the attraction between the two of them. Too much horse & nature/outdoors talk for me. I was bored with it. I was really pushing myself to even give it a 2 stars. I think the only reason that I did is that I liked the ending & the last 1/3 of the book finally picked up a bit. Had I not had the rest of this series on my bookshelf I probably would've stopped reading this book & went on to another author but seeing as how the rest of the books in this series are contemporary I thought that I may enjoy it a bit better.
Wish I could recommend this book but I can't. Hopefully I'll enjoy the rest of the series though.
Enjoys Laurel Merlington's warm and professional reading .......2007-06-10
Elizabeth George's RECKLESS LOVE enjoys Laurel Merlington's warm and professional reading as it tells of one Janna, who has braved the wild west and faces the warriors of El Cascabel along with a wild stallion and a stranger who may steal all their heart.
Former Harlequin Historical.......2006-05-28
This book was first published in 1990 and was a Harlequin Historical series book.
"A Woman's Wild Heart
Janna Wayland braved the wild challenge of the Western frontier with a fiery spirit that became legend. The savage, magnificent land was her only passion--until Ty MacKenzie's hungry eyes made her ache for things she'd never known.
But Utah Territory in 188, was as dangerous as it was beautiful. The steep green mountains and red rock canyons hid renegade Ute warriors-led by the dangerous El Cascabel--and nothing was safe. Not Janna, not Ty, not the wild stallion Lucifer . . . nor the gold buried in the rich land. But no danger could destroy the proud, consuming dream of love that ruled Janna's tempestuous heart."
A Wonderful Love Adventure!.......2001-06-19
Elizabeth Lowell has a wonderful gift of taking you into the adventure with her descritions of the Utah landscape, the excitement and terror of the terrain and the urgency of hiding from the renegade Indians. The love and the agony caused by the unrequited love Janna feels for Ty is very heartrending, you really get a sense of her loneliness and yearning for Ty's love to be returned. Dunce that he is , he almost leaves it too late to come to the realization that he really does love Janna. I would love to see the terrain in Utah that was Janna's world. This book will be a part of my permanent library.
Customer Reviews:
Unforgettable..........2006-07-27
If you bought the first book you'll defintely want to continue with the second one. This series if you haven't realized it after reading the first book is a "MUST HAVE" for your nightstand.
Happy endings all around.......2002-11-19
This story continues to follow Shadow and Hannah, whom we met in Reckless Heart, as they endure a few more hardships and raise their family. It is a very quick and happy read. The book description is a little deceiving because Josh doesn't have a large part in the book. There really isn't one story to the book, but rather many stories that happen to the entire family over a period of about 15 years. If you haven't read Reckless Heart you will not be lost since all previous situations are well expained. If you did read Reckless Heart you will be glad to learn more about the family.
Continue the series with Reckless Desire and then Reckless Embrace.
Only Madeline Baker can move you to heights beyond.......1999-05-12
Buy the book!! All the characters except one have meshed themselves in this wonderful intriguing book like no other. Great read. Can't put the book down. Imagine, Two Hawks Flying, falls for a white woman, Hannah. And the love, passion, respect still lives, still feels after many years to come. They have three children, one son, just like the Two Hawks Flying. What a wonderful read.
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- A Lasting Love!!
- Reckless for Love
- Cleveland Whitney!
- Terrific any time reading . .
- PURE ROMANCE
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Reckless Surrender (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
Rochelle Alers
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Rina Matthew's world is perfect. Rina's reputation as a skilled accountant is well-known. Her Atlanta-based company is solvent, and she has a secure relationship with her business partner- in and out of the bedroom.
Customer Reviews:
A Lasting Love!!.......2001-10-31
This book is the best! I love the way Rina and Cleveland finally get together. You have to get this book.
Reckless for Love.......2001-09-27
Rina Matthews is a CPA with not only brains but beauty, she along with partner Jason Harper are trying to make their accounting firm a success. With Jason's charm and Rina's skill they seem to be on their way in their business as well as personal lives, since a trip to the altar for them seems inevitable. Enter handsome, charming, wellbred, well connected district attorney Cleveland Whitney whose political aspirations will probably make the mayors office his first stop on the political trail. Cleveland is capitvated and impressed with Rina's beauty and candor.
Rina has harbored unsettling emotions concerning her relationship with Jason, and the assignment in Savannah as the new accountant for Abigal Whitney seems the perfect time and place to evalute her feelings, at least that was the idea until Cleve. Rina could not dismiss her obvious attraction to the smoothly confident Cleve, neither could she overlook his blantant attaction for her. "What is a girl to do"?
This must be Rochelle's early work, the story though with great potential is not as developed as her Hideaway series or other works. I was surprised that Matthew Sterling's character was one of Cleve's friends, that would truly make and interesting connection if Rochelle choses to merge the families as her Hideaway saga continues. All in all any Alers romance story is definitely worth the read.
Cleveland Whitney!.......2000-12-06
Rina Matthews was an accountant. She was contracted by Abagail Whitney to go over her finances. She would have to stay at the promonient older woman's mansion. This is were she met the handsome Cleveland Whitney.
Rina was asked by Cleveland to handle his finances for his upcoming campaign. At first Rina was shocked, but agreed. Cleveland Whitney and Rina Matthews were meant to be together. I loved the way he treated her. He even told her that he wanted her and would wait until she saw the truth about her boyfriend/partner. Slowly, Rina started to fall in love with Cleveland and he with her. She would spend as much time as she could with him.
I have read this book 4 times. Each time I read this book it is just as enjoyable as the first. You know it has to be good, it was written by Rochelle Alers.
Terrific any time reading . ........2000-07-07
There have been Whitneys--black and white--on the oceanfront near Savannah, Georgia, for centuries. Until the Civil War, ownership was white, then Noah Whitney, a freeman, bought the plantation for back taxes. Since then, Whitneys have climbed the ladder of success while building a new level of black society. The highlight of the season is their famed Black-and-White Ball, held every late summer in the gloriously restored Whitney Hall.
Adelaide Whitney, matriarch of the current family, hires Rina Matthews of Atlanta, to audit her financial affairs, comprising both her shares in the family's far-flung business empire and her own private philanthropic ventures. Sure of her own business sense, Rina has nagging concerns about her partner in the accounting firm, Jason Harper, to whom she is unofficially engaged.
These concerns are both multiplied and ignored when Rina runs full-tilt into Cleveland, Adelaide's oldest son, who is not only heir to the family business enterprises, but as a successful district attorney, about to relinquish that post to run for mayor. The collision throws up sparks that illuminate all 200 acres of the Whitney estate.
When Cleve suddenly needs an accountant for his campaign, Rina steps into the breach, and then discovers that her world has skewed because of the men she thought she could trust.
Get your copy of RECKLESS SURRENDER and your iced tea, of course, kick back, and enjoy Rochelle Alers' look at a side of life and society not often exposed to the rest of the world.
PURE ROMANCE.......2000-05-07
Rina Mathews, CPA, partner in an Atlanta based accounting firm, contracted to audit Abigail Whitney's financial holdings, which would require two months of living on the Whitney's estate.
Arriving, Rina meets Cleveland Whitney, who opposed his mother's decision of hiring Rina's firm. Immediately, Cleveland let Rina know that he didn't trust her, nor her partner, Jason Harper, who he knew from years ago.
Rina has a talk with Jason about the hostility Cleveland has toward him, Jason admit that he warned Cleveland, to stay away from Rina. Rina decides to apologize for Jason behavior, instantly she and Cleveland are attracted to each other. Wrestling with her loyalty to Jason, which wasn't warranted, because of his infidelity, and pressure from Cleveland, Rina realize that she cared for Jason, but never really loved him. Rina surrender to Cleveland's passion and protection.
This is one of my favorite's from Rochelle Alers, if you want romance, RECKLESS SURRENDER is the highest form of romance.
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Great.......2000-06-29
This one is great. I bought it for the Nora Roberts, but ended up tracking down the sequels for Heather Graham's Dark Stranger as well. They are all complete novels not short stories. If you are a Nora Roberts fan, this is the same story that came out in paperback a while back. It was first published here (McGreggor story of Ian). I started reading Elizabeth Lowel after reading this as well. I normally don't go for historical, but these were nice.
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5 massmarket paperback Titles in Mackenzie-blackthorn Series -Reckless Love - Fire and Rain - Outlaw - Granite Man - Warrior
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Reckless: A Teenage Love Story (An Avon/Flare Book)
Jeanette Mines
Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm)
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Beautifully told.......2002-11-13
I read this book because it was a requirement in my college lit class. Why? because my teacher Dr.Mines (Jeanette Mines) wrote it. Before I read it I figured it would be bad if she is making us read it, but once I started I had to finish it, I couldnt put it down. 14 year old Jeannie falls in love with 16 year old misunderstood bad boy Sam. Despite all the warnings she dates him. It seems from the moment she met him her life has changed and together they are spinning out of control. Will he take her down with him or can she save him from himself? I dont want to ruin the end so Ill stop here.
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- Good fun
- Funny
- a delightfully silly romantic novel parody
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Love's reckless rash (A Charlatan romance)
Rosemary Cartwheel
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Good fun.......2005-08-14
I am a romance novel fan, and have many favorite authors whom I greatly respect. However, I freely admit that, as with almost any genre of popular fiction, there are many novels out there full of overblown and overused stock phrases, trite plots and unimaginative writing. This delightful little parody pokes fun at exactly this element of the romance novel genre. It's a scream.
Funny.......2001-07-04
This novel which calls itself "A Charlatan Romance" is a spoof of romance novels. Never having read a romance novel, I must resort to inference and deduction to gauge how well it parodies them. Romance novels deal heavily with feelings and emotions and presumably have developed their own language and style. "Love's Reckless Rash" has fun with this language, and it also parodies the plots of romance novels. Playboy says "'Love's Reckless Rash' does for the gothic romance what 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' did for science fiction." Though both are funny, it doesn't remind me of "Hitchhiker's Guide." It reminds me of the movie "Airplane." Like Airplane it plays with verbal expressions. Also like Airplane, every individual gag isn't a winner, but the bombardment is relentless. It will make you laugh.
a delightfully silly romantic novel parody.......1998-08-28
I don't read romance novels, but this spoof on the stereotypes within romance books is tremendously funny, silly, clever and straight-up enjoyable. I now re-read it periodically when I need a burst of goofiness in an all-too-serious world. It's simply fun.
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From deep in the heart of imagination, where galaxies grow, robots rule, and Martians cause mayhem, comes WORLDS OF TOMORROW: THE AMAZING UNIVERSE OF SCIENCE FICTION ART. Teeming with gigantic insects, spaceships, and scantily clad heroines, the science fiction pulp and paperback covers of the 1920s to 1960s represented a generation's vision of the future. Wartime technology and increased information about space travel fueled the minds of artists and writers. Predictions of planetary doom stood side by side with visions of Utopia on bookshelves and magazine racks worldwide. In WORLDS OF TOMORROW, more than 300 beautifully displayed science fiction covers come back to life in text and chapters grouped by theme. Explore the creative geniuses that molded our vision of the great unknown into what it is today.
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Magnificant Collection of Photographs.......2006-05-21
Back more years ago than I want to admit when I was first getting interested in science fiction the main source was a series of magazines and paperback (or as wee called them at the time pocketbooks) with fantastic covers designed to attract the eye to the contents.
Modern book covers just don't seem to convey the same feeling. They are more modern, they realize that bug eyed monsters, sleek space ships (that all look surprisingly like the German V-2), cities on the moon, rainy jungles on Venus don't and even can't exist. The new covers certainly don't have the same feel as the old ones.
This book brings back the images from the past. And these were the books/magazines where the first of many of the classic writers Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Robert Heinlein and more. Here is the first illustration of Ae van Vogt's 'The Weapon Shops of Isher.'
It's a fascinating book to look through, over and over. Oh yes, there's some text here too, but frankly I haven't read it. I've tried, but I get so distracted by the pictures that I'm soon just looking. I'll read it one day.
The Best Image is the Cover.......2006-02-01
It's an interesting book with some rather humorous comments and great sources of information. Has a good collection of comic/pulp art. While it is still going to be kept in my collection, I was hoping for a lot better book. It does offer some interesting artwork, but the work doesn't have a great variety of artistic styles. I have this as well as a couple other pulp on my coffee table at home and in my office for people to see. Everyone that has picked up the book says it looks interesting but "the pictures all look kinda the same" is the typical response to it. The best image out of the entire book is the cover art (which does make sense...but), and that was the one that seemed to be the most unique. They did discuss some of the artists, but the authors develed greatly into L. Ron Hubbard for a handful of pages and discuss his work rather fervently. Which didn't seem to be the case with other author/artist from previous eras. These consisted of blurbs here and there of other talented artists. The way this portion sort of popped up 3/4 way through the book started to make me kinda wonder if one or both of the authors are followers of Scientology. It's a good average book. I don't see it winning any awards.
Wonderful Pictures, Abysmal Text.......2005-09-17
This is a book that is wonderful to look at and painful to read. As for the pictures, they are well chosen and beautifully reproduced. They might have been shown in bigger sizes, but this would have been at the expense of the volume's design, which is artful. The present arrangement is a good compromise. The division of the book into four visual categories (rockets, creatures, etc.) is useful.
If, however, one turns one's eyes to the text, there is nothing but disappointment. First of all, the editors did not bother to connect the text to the accompanying illustrations. Their remarks refer to pictures elsewhere in the book, but they don't say where, so one is left to look ahead and back without a clue. As to the quality of the remarks, there simply isn't any. Vague blather about how the (unidentified) artists managed to foresee the future is about all there is, except for Linaweaver's gushing praise of his adored "Forry." Ackerman himself appears to have phoned this one in, saying almost nothing specific about the illustrations (which would have required some work), but only vaporing vaguely about how the future is coming. Visually, this is a well-wrought book, but its text is lazy, empty, and dull.
DAZZLING ART FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCI-FI.......2005-07-08
"Worlds of Tomorrow" is a truly wonderful and nostalgic look back at science fiction art of the golden age of pulp magazines and science fiction books. Written by Mr. Sci-Fi himself, Forrest Ackerman, along with Brad Linaweaver this is a dazzling look into the past at the wonderful art of the 20's through the 50's that graced the covers of those early sci-fi books and pulps such as Amazing Stories, Startling Stories, Astounding Stories, Galaxy, and many more. No one knows Sci-Fi like Uncle Forry and many credit him with coining that term in the first place. It was the very first issue of Amazing Stories that inspired Ackerman's life-long love of the genre and set him on his pace to accrue one of the most fabulous collections of memorabilia ever assembled.
The book reprints hundreds of these classic pulp and book covers along with running anecdotes from both Ackerman and Linaweaver. We look back at these great covers and discover just how visionary the artists were sixty plus years ago. Their works had a perhaps over-spectacular flair to them, but they foreshadowed much of the technology we use today like computers, cell phones, atomic power, spacecraft, and robots. Frank R. Paul was the first star of pulp art as his work graced many covers of Hugo Gernsback's amazing stories and now sells for thousands of dollars today.
Each chapter takes on a different subject such as chapter two's look at space travel with all manner of fantastic rockets, and ships and saucers. It's interesting to see how designs changed from the earliest pulps of the 20's to the 1950's when actual space programs were able to provide inspiration to the artists. One can even see our present day space shuttles in the works of these early talents.
Chapter three covers robots and again these covers don't disappoint as they imagine robot designs both functional and sublime. There are humanoid robots, insectoid robots, even robots that look incredibly like the Transformer robots so popular today. One great cover to Galaxy from September 1954, shows a scientist working on a female android who looks entirely human, but with her skin peeled away over one arm and shoulder showing her internal circuitry, inspiring views of The Terminator, some thirty years before that film came out.
It is then interesting to see how when we move to the 1950's, aliens become the one of the main subjects for covers. With no limits but their own imaginations we are treated to a veritable treasure trove of scaly, hairy, slithering beasts and it's clear that many of the "B" filmmakers of the 1950's used the pulps as their inspiration in creating their latex monsters.
It's truly a magnificent book and I was especially captivated by the covers of the old Sci-Fi novels as you so rarely encounter them these days. A must have for Sci-fi collectors and fans! And as a side note, this book, like all of the Collector's Press books are well made using thick, coated stock, heavy covers and bound beautifully with the collector in mind.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
A splendid tome.......2005-05-08
This is a beautiful book with magnificent color throughout. Let me say that I disagree with the previous reviewer who complained about the size of the images. Speaking as the owner of a decent pulp collection, my feeling is that the image size is entirely adequate; indeed distortion might arise if they were shown much larger. The pictures are clear and crisp, and the color tones superb.
Forrest has made a very interesting selection of publications to feature in this book, with a large representation of UK Curtis Warren, Vargo Statten-era books that are not seen all that often. Books on pop culture collectibles (e.g. Future Toys by Emchowicz) often have great items and art, but there's one drawback; one's seen them all in other books. Here Forry steers a very well chosen course, incorporating enough of the well known covers that have appeared in Robertson/Davidson's great Pulp Culture, or in the definitive work that started my personal lust for pulp art, Brian Aldiss' Science Fiction Art; but adding enough new and less well known, albeit excellent, material. There's virtually no current stuff, which suits me fine.
Nice work, Forry! Not that we've come to expect anything else from you. From the days in the mid sixties when I would sneak into a tiny side street newsagent shop, that smelled of old fried food, in Winchester, England to buy Famous Monsters, Forry has been a shining light in the present day surreal. I've heard that the collection he so generously shared with the public may have been sold to pay legal bills; if so, may he come across that painting of Dracula by Bram Stoker one day!
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No other book answers the Jehovah's Witnesses' misinterpretation of Scripture so immediately and shows how to use the same Scripture in leading Jehovah's Witnesses to Christ.
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Can you say perversion of the word?.......2007-09-03
One Saturday morning I had a JW stop by my house. In the past, I have always been eager to engage w/o knowing the facts of their beliefs, all I used to know was that they didn't believe in the trinity and that their door to door work was their way to salvation. Ephesians 8 clears that right up but when I saw this middle aged man with a 8 year old boy named Marcel, who was adopted from infancy and taught this false doctrine, I felt led to seek out some answers on how to plant some seeds to the next visitor. David Reed gives you the resources and also a simple way to deliver, like some other reviewer wrote, first and foremost, with love.
Reed gives you FACTS in regard to failed prophecies (Christ return, Armageddon), revisions made in the NWT (new world translation)to suit their beliefs such as the changing of the verbage in Exodus 3:14 and John 8:58 where Jesus references "I am". Their own 1984 NWT study bible w/references has a footnote stating the original greek "ego eimi" means "I am". However the new watchtower translation does not even make the correlation!
This book is not just for the Christian wishing to share the good news to the JW but it is also a wake up call to the JW to read the bible, not the watchtower, all scripture is God breathed why not read it instead of ANYTHING else.
David Reed is a Hypocrite.......2007-01-10
I do not know much about David Reed but he is obviously a hypocrite and a liar. His book should be banned from this site and all book stores. David Reed may you rot in*&&*&.
Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse.......2007-01-05
All in all, I was disappointed in this book. I left the religion after 45 years so I know the teachings well. Many of David Reed's comments on the verses were not proven with enough conviction that you could actually answer a Witness with his thoughts.
He has a lot of opinions, but without biblical backing the Witnesses would not even question their beliefs. I have trouble believing he was ever a devout Witness.
All of us have opinions, but without scriptural support, a Witness would not listen.
I believe the books by Ray Franz have much more force since he was on their Governing Body and wrote much of the literature. I really enjoyed his two books and believe what he said.
KNOCK KNOCK! Who's there? David Reed!.......2006-12-12
If you are tired of avoiding Jehovah's Witnesses that come to your door, and would like to know how to answer their distortions of the Bible, this book is for you. It's organized, accurate, and obviously well researched. With this book you can successfully answer most of the major doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses from an evangelical Christian perspective.
Read I WAS A TEENAGE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS and JEHOVAH UNMASKED for two of the wildest rides ever!
The other side of the story.......2006-05-28
At last you have a means of answering these brainwashers when they next pitch up on your doorstep. They changed the bible to suit themselves and are well trained in quoting the passages they wrote to support their message. Most people don't look at a bible from one year to the next and don't know enough to show these people how wrong they are. David Reed gives ammunition to fight back with.
My wife nearly fell for their slick brainwashing, I'm buying a copy for her, and possibly more for the local Kingdom Hall.
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