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On its publication in 1982, James Carroll called Donald Pfarrer’s Neverlight “the most intelligent and moving novel that I have read about Vietnam.” Paul Fussell wrote that it was “one of the finest novels about war I’ve ever read, and that includes A Farewell to Arms.” Now Pfarrer revisits the conflict and creates a modern classic–an epic novel of all the wars we wage to occupy ground, forge a future, and save our own souls.
The mission is Vietnam in microcosm: a quest to find and obliterate a secret enemy weapons cache. Leading this fateful journey is Captain MacHugh Clare, a draftee who has become the consummate soldier. Unconcerned with death, he shifts immediately each morning from unconsciousness to action, “from sound sleep to a crashing heart.” His reward at the end of the mission is the possibility of seeing his beloved wife. But for now, he cannot stop fighting long enough to see any other world but war.
Beside Mac is his opposite, Chaplain Paul Adrano, who knows only doubt and disillusion. He has come to Vietnam to kill his fear, to find his faith on the field of battle, and he will soon know the forbidden power of violence and the pull of sexual temptation.
Meanwhile, in America, Mac’s wife, Sarah, fights her own battle–against a feeling of uselessness, a suspicion that she is “not fit for anything the world needs.” Struggling with notions of a woman’s proper role, Sarah begins to see possibilities beyond merely waiting at home for the man she loves.
They all complete their missions in ways they had never anticipated.
From a jungle battlefield to the Citadel of Hue to the homefront, Donald Pfarrer paints in prose both violent and lyrical his characters’ attempts to believe and deny, commit and be released, search and destroy. Not since Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead has a writer so powerfully explored the inner lives of men and women in war. The Fearless Man is a major work of fiction–one as meaningful, wild, tortured, and unsettling as the Vietnam experience itself.
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On its publication in 1982, James Carroll called Donald Pfarrer's Neverlight “the most intelligent and moving novel that I have read about Vietnam.” Paul Fussell wrote that it was “one of the finest novels about war I've ever read, and that includes A Farewell to Arms. ” Now Pfarrer revisits the conflict and creates a modern classic—an epic novel of all the wars we wage to occupy ground, forge a future, and save our own souls.
The mission is Vietnam in microcosm: a quest to find and obliterate a secret enemy weapons cache. Leading this fateful journey is Captain MacHugh Clare, a draftee who has become the consummate soldier. Unconcerned with death, he shifts immediately each morning from unconsciousness to action, “from sound sleep to a crashing heart.” His reward at the end of the mission is the possibility of seeing his beloved wife. But for now, he cannot stop fighting long enough to see any other world but war.
Beside Mac is his opposite, Chaplain Paul Adrano, who knows only doubt and disillusion. He has come to Vietnam to kill his fear, to find his faith on the field of battle, and he will soon know the forbidden power of violence and the pull of sexual temptation.
Meanwhile, in America, Mac's wife, Sarah, fights her own battle—against a feeling of uselessness, a suspicion that she is “not fit for anything the world needs.” Struggling with notions of a woman's proper role, Sarah begins to see possibilities beyond merely waiting at home for the man she loves.They all complete their missions in ways they had never anticipated.
From a jungle battlefield to the Citadel of Hue to the homefront, Donald Pfarrer paints in prose both violent and lyrical his characters' attempts to believe and deny, commit and be released, search and destroy. Not since Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead has a writer so powerfully explored the inner lives of men and women in war. The Fearless Man is a major work of fiction—one as meaningful, wild, tortured, and unsettling as the Vietnam experience itself.
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Not Your Typical Nam Novel.......2006-06-16
The two main characters in the book are Mac, the Dirty Delta Company commander and Father Paul, a Navy chaplain, assigned to Mac's Marines in Vietnam during 1967-1968. After fighting the VC and NVA in a jungle raid upon suspected enemy caches just off the Ho Chi Minh trail, Mac's company is rushed northward to try and help retake Hue' City in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive, a great military victory for the U.S. but a better propaganda victory for North Vietnam thanks to the media. There are descriptive firefights in the book but much of it is devoted to the thoughts of these men as various tragic situations confront them. Mac is a law school dropout who describes himself as a civilian caught in the Crotch until his tour is over. He develops into the best company commander in the battalion. Plus he has the assistance of Gunnery Sgt. Hitchcock, a battle hardened (maybe even blood thirsty)and combat savy fighter. Father Paul, a Catholic priest, has absolutely no idea what he has gotten himself into and loses his courage while huddling in a shell crater, trying to muster up the courage to go to a wounded Marine who is calling out for him. The ups and downs of the officers' wives back in the States waiting for their men to return are also looked at as well as the increasing polarization of Americans in their view of the war and its morality. Brought back a lot of memories for this old vet. There are Nam novels out there with better battle scenes but the philosophical approach of the main characters in the book makes for absorbing reading.
Pharrer Brings Both War and Life Into Sharp Focus.......2006-02-11
"A Fearless Man" succeeds brilliantly in communicating the complexities and stresses of both combat and the spiritual component of life. In a clear, dialogue-driven manner, Donald Pharrer's depiction of men in battle and wives in waiting examines the ambiguities and certainties that define their existence. This is a book that you will remember long after the final pages have been turned, because the protagonists' struggles inform the decisions that every person faces when life turns tough. Read it and be prepared to ponder!
Excellent Read!.......2005-04-10
An excellent read! The plot kept me thoroughly absorbed. The battle descriptions are vivid and harrowing. I felt, in contrast to some reviewers below, that the characters were very well developed. If you enjoy war novels, you will enjoy this book.
Probably a better story than the storytelling delivered.......2005-02-27
I seldom rate a book that I've read all the way through as less than a four star book, because if I don't think they're that good, I don't finish them. This book was an exception to that loose rule in that I felt sure early in the book that it was going to be very good, but I became more and more disillusioned with it as I plodded to the final page. My fundamental problem with the book was that I never felt the author did a good job of clearly describing what was going on so that the reader could follow and visualize the story. At first I thought that might have been a writing style, but as it repeated itself, I just concluded it was a writing flaw. In my opinion, great writers put the reader into the story so that they can see and feel what's going on. This author either couldn't or chose not to do that for me in this book.
And, that's a shame and a lost opportunity for me, because the story of this book is a pretty interesting one about a very strong combat leader and his friend, the chaplain. Their personalities and experiences in life and in combat provided a sturdy skeleton of a story that might have become what I'd rate as a great book. Instead, because of what I see as a failute to clearly describe what's happening, especially in the combat scenes, I found this book to be more and more of a chore to read rather than a joy. You may read it and have a totally different view, but, if you ask me, I'd say you'd be better served to read anything written by James Webb rather than this book.
A Novel of War--not Vietnam.......2005-01-21
Throughout the reading of this novel, I was entirely engrossed. Yet, in the end, I was oddly unsatisfied. The book is subtitled "A Novel of Vietnam," but--aside from the setting--the book could have been written in any American war zone. The uniqueness of Vietnam was barely confronted. It was a fine war novel, but to compare it to the Vietnam novels that directly deal with the confounding aspects of that war is inaccurate.
Perhaps the author intended to write a novel that universally addressed the moral conundrums of battle--not just those in Vietnam. Or perhaps the author wished to address the existence of God in an overtly cruel world. Those, in fact, would be grander ventures. Unfortunately, the narrative does not rise to those sweeping purposes, either. We know nothing of the enemy, little of the average marine, and never have clarity regarding the motivation of the principals. Consequently, readers cannot adequately fathom the choices--moral or amoral--made by them. Finally, frustratingly, the narrative lets Mac off the hook morally for his choices in Hue, thus, obscuring one's ability to understand him or the war.
It seems the author intends to expand his insight into certain characters, but gets lost or disinterested. For instance, about a third of the way through the novel, Pfarrer seems to consider elucidating the motivation (and perhaps even mental stability) of Gunnery Sargeant Hitchcock. Unfortunately, he jettisons that aspect, and, ultimately, presents the reader with a simple hellbent-for-leather marine, a characterization just this side of stock.
That being said, this is a good and worthy novel. The battle scenes are meticulously detailed and carry the verisimilitude that could only come from one who had similar experiences. The narrative is gripping if not profound. It raises questions --ontologically and morally--that are potent in a war context. Unfortunately, the novel does not have the depth to allow any answers.
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- A fascinating story set in ancient Sumer and modern America
- At the Childhood of Civilization
- Two apprently unconnected stories unite in a way to blow your mind
- I can't remember the last time...
- has potential but falls short.
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Inventing Memory
Anne Harris
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0765311348
Release Date: 2005-03-24 |
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A one-of-a-kind novel, like nothing you've ever read, Inventing Memory is a stunning blend of fantasy and reality, exposing the secret links between the mythic, the mundane, and the timeless mysteries of the human heart.Shula is a slave in fabled Sumer--until Inanna, Queen of Heaven, appears before her. Chosen by the Goddess for reasons she cannot begin to fathom, Shula is freed from bondage and set upon an uncertain path toward a new and mysterious destiny. But the attention of the gods is a dangerous thing, and Shula may have cause to regret the day she first laid eyes on the Queen of Dawn . . . Wendy Chrenko, former high school misfit, is now an overworked graduate student, researching her dissertation on "Remnants of Matriarchy in the Ancient Sumerian Inanna Cycle." Still smarting from the painful wounds of a long relationship that ended abruptly, Wendy is bound and determined to prove that men and women once lived together in perfect equality, even if it means volunteering for a bizarre and dangerous scientific experiment . . .Separated by millennia, Shula and Wendy appear to be two very different women, leading completely separate lives.Or maybe not.
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A fascinating story set in ancient Sumer and modern America.......2007-07-30
This is a unique book that weaves together the legends of ancient Sumer with the story of a modern young woman whose days as a school misfit aren't entirely behind her. Initially it feels like the reader is experiencing two distinct books; the first section follows the story of Shula, a slave in Sumer who worships the goddess Inanna although Shula is also experiencing a lot of strange miracles and is aware that there were goddesses before Inanna who appear to be taking an interest in Shula. Shula's life is hard, even when she follows Inanna's will, and lots of decisions that she makes seem to cause her life to go downhill. We leave Shula's story as she is being punished for breaking her vows as a temple virgin.
The second part of the story switches to the life of Wendy Chrenko as she lives through her schooldays as a misfit, teased by other schoolchildren because of her rather wacky nature. She eventually finds something of a soulmate in Ray Mackie but as their lives move on and Wendy spends more time researching the role of women in ancient Sumer whilst Ray gets involved in some rather dodgy employment they no longer see eye to eye. Wendy's life is a quest to discover a true matriarchal society in history but in this search she is also a misfit. Wendy eventually becomes involved in a virtual reality experiment to see if she can discover the truth of her belief that women and men initially lived together as equals.
Both parts of this book are interesting and make you want to keep reading. The third part of the book brings the threads together as we discover the ways in which Shula and Wendy are linked and as both women discover the truth of their searches. Ray also has a role in learning what is important to him and acknowledging the relationship between him and Wendy.
What's fascinating about this book is the opportunity to peek into ancient Sumer (around 2000BC) and the lives of the people there. There is a great deal of historical detail and the characters are mostly those found in historical documents (such as the Epic of Gilgamesh). It is fascinating to read about the difficult lives, particularly of a slave girl, although the gods and miracles and magic that are part of Shula's life make the story rather unbelievable. Shula's life events are also partially mirrored in Wendy's 21st century life and the timeless themes of love, disappointment and lack of understanding of the path of life are excellently described. Overall it is an uplifting book and one that it is very difficult to categorise except for saying that it is simply a good read.
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At the Childhood of Civilization.......2005-11-30
At first this novel seems forced and poorly constructed, but by the end of the story Anne Harris wraps up her disconnected storylines in a very intriguing and creative fashion. The first part of the book operates as a novella about a slave girl in ancient Sumer, Shula, who has an epiphany about the obscure ancient goddess Belili. After this, the main bulk of the book is about a modern young woman named Wendy, who as a forlorn teen misfit has her own vision of Belili and decides to study the ancient mythology of Sumer. At first these two plotlines have little to do with each other and you might even think you're reading a collection of novellas rather than a full novel. But in both cases Anne Harris has definitely made herself knowledgeable on ancient Sumerian mythology, and she makes great use of such folklore in a modern fictional context. Eventually we find that Shula and Wendy are connected via advanced virtual reality experiments, and this is quite a creative concept on the part of Harris, although the sci-fi and technological aspects of this plot device are a bit under-explained. Harris's ruminations on love and belief can get a bit sappy and melodramatic, and the book's undercurrent of goddess-centric feminism gets pretty heavy-handed. But this is still a mostly successful and intriguing use of Sumerian mythology in speculative fiction, and the underlying themes concerning modern life are effective. [~doomsdayer520~]
Two apprently unconnected stories unite in a way to blow your mind.......2005-11-27
I stayed up all night to finish this book.
This book starts off in ancient Samaria, where a slave named Shula who meets the goddess Inanna and becomes one of her priestess. But then she meets the goddess Belili and the snake of knowledge and finds her approach to the world much less demanding and selfish. But just when the story gets going we are sent to the present day, to meet a girl named Wendy.
Wendy has rough experiences in middle school, the boys teasing the girls making fun of her, and then she discovering the goddess and learns not to care what people think of her. She also meets Ray, a young artist who loves Wendy's view of the world and their relationship takes off. But Ray had an abusive father and soon his after school job gets a little rough, causing problems for him and Wendy.
But was does this have to do with ancient Sumer and rival goddess worship cults? The two parts of the book are apparently unconnected, except by Wendy's link to the goddess Belili, who she studies in college and has long felt connected to. Maybe Wendy is a reincarnation of Shula, the slave we meet in the beginning of the book. Maybe it's more than that. Maybe, it's something else entirely.
I won't tell you. The ending of this book blew me away.
Just read it, you'll enjoy it if you're a Wiccan, a historical fiction freak, or a person who loves suspense.
And the title will make sense once you finish the book. I promise.
Five stars easily.
I can't remember the last time..........2004-09-15
...a book held me this enthralled. No, actually, I can. It was Kushiel's Avatar, and it was more than a year ago. This is possibly the best work of fiction I've read this year so far; certainly it's the most unputdownable.
The novel contains two parallel storylines. One is about Shula, a slave in ancient Sumer, who has visions that lead her to the service of the goddess Inanna. However, even as Inanna makes greater and greater demands upon her, Shula loses her heart to a different goddess, Belili, Inanna's wilder rival. And in the modern day, a nerdy girl named Wendy grows up, has a vision of Belili herself, and begins to dream of a life better than her social-outcast existence. She searches for goddess religion and matriarchy and eventually becomes a scholar of ancient literature, but meanwhile the tension is building in her romantic relationship with her boyfriend Ray. A weird science-fiction twist brings the two storylines together, and I won't spoil anything else.
But this is a great story, filled with haunting myths and equally haunting depictions of life as a teenage misfit, beautiful scenes of love and friendship, thoughtful discourse about ancient matriarchies and whether they existed, lovely prose, and all sorts of other good stuff. My only issue with it is that the science fiction device seemed a bit far-fetched to me. This is a minor quibble--it's science fiction after all! Read it if you're into mythic fiction or time-travel storylines.
has potential but falls short........2004-07-07
This book was very readable for me and the first few chapters were enough to hold my interest which was very pleasing. My problem with this book was that there were many things that were not clarified like what the goddess was exactly. It was confusing how Shula talked to Inama for me and what type of entity the snake was.
There were some very good lines and Shula's adventure in the underworld was wonderful. I wish there was more of that. But some of the descriptions were really confusing. I'm not sure if they were translated from some mythical language or whatnot but lines like "Her eyes were wide and dark, and as the guards dragged her away, Shula thought, If only I could hide in them" were really perplexing. Hide in her eyes? I can't see how that is possible on any level.
The names in the book were very creative. I loved the names. But otherwise I found the descriptions rather lukewarm and boring. The ending was dissapointing and contrived. Maybe I just don't like fantasy and reality cross over stories but I felt the ending was dissapointing.
Book Description
Narrated by Sarah, who in the year 2005 finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her unconventional ancestors, Inventing Memory chronicles the lives of Sara's forebears. She calls to memory her great-grandmother Sarah, propelled by a Russian pogrom to America in 1906; her grandmother Salome, who cavorted with Henry Miller in prewar Paris; and finally her mother, Sally, a famous folk singer and emblem of the '60s. Through the paradoxical nature of memory Sarah comes to understand and impart her own story.
Inventing Memory is the story of all women on the verge of the 21st century and recalls the saga of the 20th-century woman and her heroic struggle to be free. It is Erica Jong's most ambitious, complex and satisfying novel yet.
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I expected it to be better.......2001-12-30
I have read almost all of Erica Jong's earlier books, & I was looking forward to reading this one. Although in the beginning this novel seemed promising (Sarah's story is very lively & well told) later the book dragged on and on...Jong's central themes (women versus men, spirit versus day to day life) were better explored in her earlier works.
It seems as if Erica Jong is, yet again, trying to say the same old things in the same old way. Maybe the "same old things" part isn't what's wrong: the "same old way" part definitely is. She's an intelligent writer, seems like an intelligent & very lively person (especially from Fear of Fifty, even though that too, was repetitive) so why can't she start writing something different? I mean, completely different, not just "changing the names of the main characters" different...
Why, Erica, why?.......2001-11-07
I first read Jong's famous Fear of Flying while in college, when the heroine was the ancient-seeming age of 27ish. Have since reread every few years through the present, now well through my 30s, and I still find FoF not only a great read but full of new insight.
Why, oh, why then, can't this woman write another novel I can bear to get through? I can't say I've tried them all (maybe Fear of 50, though not a novel, holds the most promise), but How to Save Your Own Life, for example, and now Inventing Memory, drive me to distraction with their lovingly self-indulgent descriptions of the main Jong character that lacks any of the funny self-deprecating description of FoFlying. The soft-core prose without the bite. Narrative sometimes get going but is quickly knocked off its wheels by the occasionally trenchant but mostly excessive Yiddish proverbs that litter every few paragraphs. A cheesy mess.
Maybe my expectations are just too high, as I still call Flying one of my all time favorite books -- not just because it's fun, but because it offered such dead-on descriptions of questions a woman asks herself as she's coming into her own, plagued alternately by belief in her own brilliance and star power and the fear of failing, as well as wrestling with the idea of where love/men should figure into one's life.
Gone and by the wind-grieved Erica, come back again.
Only Mindless Fun.......2001-05-23
If you want something to read that is fun but not a work of art, I think you've found it. Jong keeps her reputation as a soft porn queen though, fyi. During passages of this grandmother telling her life story, she breaks into somewhat explicit descriptions -- which were seriously out of the grandmother's character. I found the whole book a bit contrived. You'll enjoy this book, but don't expect any new revelations.
A wonderful multi-genrational saga!.......2000-05-12
What can one say about a book which tugs at their very heartstrings and own memories. Having been brought up on the Lower East Side and familiar with many of the places Ms. Jong described to say nothing of the people, I found this read wonderful.
And through her three main women charatcers, it is as if she tells the story of thes Jewish women living, working and assimilating to the United States of then and now.
Do not miss this book - you will close it with a sigh and think often about the characters too.
A disappointment.......2000-03-28
It has been many years since Fear of Flying came out and my reading of it at the time, a funny, irreverent, and poignant feminist manifesto that was very apropos reading for the young woman that I was. Twenty-five plus years later in Inventing Memory, Erica Jong appears to be evaluating what it all means through searching for roots in four generations of a fictional family with an immigrant great grandmother matriarch. That is all well and good, but the style rarely shifts from the mood of what I recall from Fear of Flying. Jong never stops reminding us that it is the women who carry the generations forward, and the heck with those fickle men. Too convenient and too simplistic. And, also, ala Jong, they all must be outrageous women. My other two complaints were as such: Jong frequently has to spell out - in case you all didn't get it! - what she means by "inventing memory". I like the phrase and the possible permutations of its meaning, but I would have preferred to have it left to the reader. Finally, I came away feeling that I hardly knew the characters, particularly the four women, so I wound up finding them shallow, and not caring a lot about them. Perhaps great granddaughter Sarah we learn the most about and I think she's the most sympathetic character.
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Inventing Memory
Jong
Manufacturer: Harper Paper
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JF9BF6 |
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INVENTING MEMORY
Manufacturer: Harper
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GQC7MW |
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- A fascinating story set in ancient Sumer and modern America
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Inventing Memory
Anne Harris
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTHY6K |
Customer Reviews:
A fascinating story set in ancient Sumer and modern America.......2007-08-15
This is a unique book that weaves together the legends of ancient Sumer with the story of a modern young woman whose days as a school misfit aren't entirely behind her. Initially it feels like the reader is experiencing two distinct books; the first section follows the story of Shula, a slave in Sumer who worships the goddess Inanna although Shula is also experiencing a lot of strange miracles and is aware that there were goddesses before Inanna who appear to be taking an interest in Shula. Shula's life is hard, even when she follows Inanna's will, and lots of decisions that she makes seem to cause her life to go downhill. We leave Shula's story as she is being punished for breaking her vows as a temple virgin.
The second part of the story switches to the life of Wendy Chrenko as she lives through her schooldays as a misfit, teased by other schoolchildren because of her rather wacky nature. She eventually finds something of a soulmate in Ray Mackie but as their lives move on and Wendy spends more time researching the role of women in ancient Sumer whilst Ray gets involved in some rather dodgy employment they no longer see eye to eye. Wendy's life is a quest to discover a true matriarchal society in history but in this search she is also a misfit. Wendy eventually becomes involved in a virtual reality experiment to see if she can discover the truth of her belief that women and men initially lived together as equals.
Both parts of this book are interesting and make you want to keep reading. The third part of the book brings the threads together as we discover the ways in which Shula and Wendy are linked and as both women discover the truth of their searches. Ray also has a role in learning what is important to him and acknowledging the relationship between him and Wendy.
What's fascinating about this book is the opportunity to peek into ancient Sumer (around 2000BC) and the lives of the people there. There is a great deal of historical detail and the characters are mostly those found in historical documents (such as the Epic of Gilgamesh). It is fascinating to read about the difficult lives, particularly of a slave girl, although the gods and miracles and magic that are part of Shula's life make the story rather unbelievable. Shula's life events are also partially mirrored in Wendy's 21st century life and the timeless themes of love, disappointment and lack of understanding of the path of life are excellently described. Overall it is an uplifting book and one that it is very difficult to categorise except for saying that it is simply a good read.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, [...]. © Helen Hancox 2007
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Inventing Memory
Erica JONG
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UZRGXE |
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its not just warships.......2000-06-11
while the warships in this TR are cool, the dropship info is great, it lets you use ones other then leapords, unions, and overlords same goes for jump ships this really adds depth to large scale action
Best place for JumpShips, DropShips, and WarShips.......1999-11-06
This TR is the best place to get designs for your BattleTech campaigns outside of creating your own designs.
Nice inside ugly art.......1999-09-09
THe warship art was horrible the original 2750 book warship art was alot better but the rest of the book was good well except the aerospace fighters since it gave only basic stats on them. We now need an aeorspace technical readout.
Mucho Tech Info for any Game Master.......1999-03-17
This book has a large arsenal of new tech WarShips and JumpShips, plus many DropShips and fighters. If you are like me and enjoy the raw power of standing at the helm of a Cameron-class WarShip while duking it out with Clan Wolf, you will enjoy this tech readout.
Orbital Bombardment anyone?.......1999-02-13
FASA put this TR out years ago. They should follow it up with a revised edition of the Battlespace Boxed Set. The material is more complete in scope than most FASA TR products and really adds to the game. Battlemechs no longer rule the Battlefield. If you think they do, ask victims of an orbital bombardment about that nasty warship in orbit.
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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
Dr. W. Harry Plantinga
Manufacturer: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
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ASIN: 1931848076
Release Date: 2006-12-15 |
Product Description
The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.
Book Description
Between the covers of this book are testimonies from Christian role models from the worlds of film, sports, and music. The stories are real and powerful, and are presented in a way that believers and seekers alike will find compelling.
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Review: How Do You Know He's Real?.......2007-06-14
In the book, How Do You Know He's Real, you'll get an inside look into the spiritual lives of 34 celebrities. Hagberg has compiled testimonies ranging from Kirk Cameron to Rudy Sarzo (former bass player for Ozzy Osbourne). Each story is remarkably different and it's amazing to read how God has worked in the lives of each of these well-known people.
Celebrities Share Their Christian Faith.......2007-05-31
The author has collected very readable stories telling how celebrities have become Christians, and they share their low points and their joys here. This is a welcome peek into the lives of well known people who typically are more secretive.
Ricky Skaggs, Kirk Cameron, Gloria Gaynor, Bethel Johnson (34 people in all) tell about their struggles and their early days as new Christians.
Billy Ray Cyrus tells of singing in his grandpa's Pentecostal church when he was 4, and includes the touching lyrics to the song he wrote "The other side."
Jackie (Jacklyn) Zeman, star of General Hospital, advises that when you are at a crossroads "cry out to God and ask for His guidance."
Al Kasha's story resonated with me; this Academy Award winning songwriter overcame agoraphobia, and talks about how Hollywood is a tough place for a Jew who came to Christ, and how he started a Hollywood Bible study group.
There are stories here for anyone to enjoy and find spirit lifting.
Celebrities talk about God in their life.......2007-04-27
(Hagberg has written a companion book with the same title, subtitled God Unplugged)
How Do You Know He's Real? is a collection of celebrity essays about God acting in their lives. The contributors include athletes, musicians, and actors. Their stories often follow a familiar pattern of fame leading to drugs and alcohol before hitting bottom and being turned around by an encounter with God. That's not to say the accounts are all stock and cliched, but rather that God meets each person in their need--and for celebrities that need will be similar. And many of the tales include growing up in stable Christian homes, but still needing to make personal decisions about God and Christ and how that decision impacted their careers.
The stories are collected alphabetically but Hagberg has provided a topic finder so a reader battling discouragement or frustration can find offerings from Billy Ray Cyrus, Nancy Stafford, Zorro, Gary Burghoff or John Schneider.
Each essay begins with a picture and short biography of the contributor, listing their accomplishments. Following the selection is God's Road Map, a few sentences about the issues raised by the author, with Bible verses for teaching and encouragement.
The essays themselves are as varied as the contributors. Some of them read as if they were written to be given as speeches. Several sound like the writer could be sitting at your kitchen table, chatting over the coffee pot. All of them are honest and share from their heart how God has acted in their life and how they know He's real.
Reading the accounts of God acting in both miraculous and mundane ways reminds us that no matter what a person does for a living, each of us are created beings who need a loving Savior and merciful God.
Armchair Interviews says: Up close and personal stories from celebrities.
COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!! Terrific Read!.......2006-05-18
I received this book as a gift and once I started, I couldn't put it down. Ms Hagberg has captured the beliefs of these well known and respected celebrities, sports figures, and musicians. I'm anxiously awaiting the next book in the series and can't wait to give copies of this one to all my friends. Order 2!
The book of a lifetime!.......2006-04-18
This is a book that you will no doubt want to share with everyone you know! (I certainly am!) It was so hard to put the book down - but worth it - just to extend the time and joy of reading it! GREAT content! GREAT author! I can't wait to read the next books in the series!
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- From the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Correction: Book 1 is NOT included with Book 2 & 3
- Partial book only, buy the complete book instead
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Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ
Edmond Szekely
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First published in 1936, this book is a translation of The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ, recorded in Aramaic by Jesus' disciple, John.
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From the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.......1999-12-08
Some of the most inspiring scripture to come out of the Judeo-Christian tradition. I have even quoted it on my Peace Miracles website (but we are not allowed to post URL's here, sorry) The vision described in the Essene scriptures is coming true today. Peace Be With You
Correction: Book 1 is NOT included with Book 2 & 3.......1999-11-25
Dear Readers: I just received Books 2&3 of "The Gospel of the Essenes". Based upon a misreading of the Table of Contents, I thought Book 1 was included with Books 2 & 3. In fact, the Table of Contents of "The Gospel of the Essenes" state that Book 1 (The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ) is published separately. Sorry about my previous comment(s).
Partial book only, buy the complete book instead.......1999-11-21
I have not yet formed an opinion on "The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ,", but I wish I hadn't bought it. It turns out that this book is only a portion of a larger book by the same translator. It saves money and time to go ahead and purchase the complete "The Gospel of the Essenes" (which includes "The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ") rather than the incomplete, earlier published version. The difference in costs between the two books is relatively small.
Wholistic Jesus prayers for the Earth within a "how to" book.......1998-11-04
This is one of the most rare and unseen documents of this millenium. It brings us face to face with a wholistic Jesus who offers us a path to bringing in out Heavenly Father and Earth Mother. "Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you; she gives you life." said Jesus He also includes this revoluntionary prayer:"Our Mother which art upon the earth, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come, and thy will be done in us, as it is in thee. As thou sendest every day thy angels, send them to us also. forgive us our sins, as we atone all our sins agianst thee. And lead us not into sickness, but delvier us from all evil, for thine is the earth, the body, and the health. Amen. And they all prayed together with Jesus to the Heavenly Father and to the Earthly Mother." This is a MUST READ for Everyone!! Let this take us into the new Millenium as Christ guides us to the Taoist principles of balance with Native American resspect for the Earth Mother. Christian
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A Must-Have!.......2004-02-26
For those looking for true peace and joy in their Christian life, this book is a must. James B. Richards has a way of wording profound things into a simple, easy to understand language. The true Gospel message comes alive in a way that is often not taught in mainstream Christian circles. I'm getting copies for my kids so they can have a reference of what God's love is really all about.
This book is excellent for anyone calling themselves a believer, but I think it would also benefit many that have been hurt, condemned or even turned-off by "religion."
Powerful!!!.......2003-02-06
This book changed the way I see God. I saw that the "Gospel" of Peace or the "Good News" of Peace is that God has made peace with human beings through His Son. We don't have to be afraid of the one who went to so much trouble to have relationship with us. I loved this book, and it caused me to fall in love with God all over again. Don't miss it!
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Slim volume of 54 pages containing the translations of the Essene Gospel Book Four from the ancient Aramaic and Hebrew with very little excess commentary. A view of Jesus the Christ from the point of his contemporaries, the Esssenes, rather than middle age Europe
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- A real and personal experience with God
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ: The Light of Love and Peace
Wilson Moreira Amarante
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ: The Light of Love and Peace, was inspired by our devotion to the Christ Jesus, The Way of Truth and Life. We are united in a commitment to spread the Word of the Christ Jesus, a Message of Light, Love and Peace, an invitation to sisters and brothers from all over the world to be part in the arising of the Planet of Light. The book is a compilation of the Gospels of Mathew (80 B.C.), Mark (68 TO 67 B.C.), Luke (80 B.C.), John (100 TO 85 B.C.) and the Revelation, in accordance with the originals in Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. The text was all updated, reviewed from the graciously public domain version of the King James Bible, Clarified (KJC) New Testament, left Rev. Bill McGinn, and formatted in HTML by Rev. Ken Allen, D.D.
The Mission, Awake the Essence of Light in our Souls, Sow the Seed of Love in our Minds, Bloom the Flower of Peace in our Emotions, Bear the Fruit of Light in our Bodies, as a Living Garden of God,The Way of Truth and Life,The Way of Light & Truth of Love,The Life of Peace, and Universal Fraternity of Light is the Highest State that we can achieve during the evolutional process for he Manifestation of the Divine Consciousness.
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A real and personal experience with God.......2006-07-10
It is the Way of Truth of the Life!!!! You can feel the Sacred Presence of the Divine Master Christ Jesus within you. All the Words of Christ Jesus are cronologically set for our Iniciation as missionaries of Love and Server of Peace.
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