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Just finished The War for Late Night, it was pretty swell.
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I just finished The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Great book! It was an amazing study on human nature.
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American Eagle wrote:I just finished The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Great book! It was an amazing study on human nature.
I read that cover to cover years ago, but spent a lot of time last weekend thumbing through it again, great read. \:D/
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Taps wrote:"Adam" By Ted Dekker. It's about a serial killer. Ooh.
I read that book. For me it felt too fake to be real and too real to be fake, so I didn't enjoy it much. What did you think?

I really enjoyed it :yes: A Thriller/mystery/theological book :yes: Only Ted Dekker can do that \:D/ really though it had me on the edge of my seat! I recomend anybody who isn't a wuss (It's not very scary but their are a few parts) To read it :D
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"Together is all We Need"
By Michael Phillips

It's a great series. :yes:
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I just started Escape from Warsaw, partly for school, partly for pleasure, and then I'm reading the Millie Keith series and I just finished book 5 last night :)
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Taps wrote:"Adam" By Ted Dekker. It's about a serial killer. Ooh.
That is my favorite TD book ever! I thought he did a fantastic job!

And I am currently reading 'The Silver Chair' by C.S. Lewis.
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Taps wrote:
Amethystic wrote:
Taps wrote:"Adam" By Ted Dekker. It's about a serial killer. Ooh.
I read that book. For me it felt too fake to be real and too real to be fake, so I didn't enjoy it much. What did you think?

I really enjoyed it :yes: A Thriller/mystery/theological book :yes: Only Ted Dekker can do that \:D/ really though it had me on the edge of my seat! I recomend anybody who isn't a wuss (It's not very scary but their are a few parts) To read it :D
Nah Robert Liparulo does arguably as good or better at it.

Anyway I'm reading The B. S. of A. by Brian Sack. \:D/
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The Top Crusader wrote:
Taps wrote:
Amethystic wrote:
Taps wrote:"Adam" By Ted Dekker. It's about a serial killer. Ooh.
I read that book. For me it felt too fake to be real and too real to be fake, so I didn't enjoy it much. What did you think?

I really enjoyed it :yes: A Thriller/mystery/theological book :yes: Only Ted Dekker can do that \:D/ really though it had me on the edge of my seat! I recomend anybody who isn't a wuss (It's not very scary but their are a few parts) To read it :D
Nah Robert Liparulo does arguably as good or better at it.
I must agree.

I just finished Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, which was amazing, and Invasion by Jon Lewis, and then I started on Green by Ted Dekker, but it really didn't catch my interest at all... maybe I'll pick it up some time later, after the epicness of C. S. Lewis has worn off. I'm really not feeling interested in modern Christian fantasy any more. :- (I don't count C. S. Lewis as modern, though he probably is. What I mean by modern Christian fantasy is teens riding around on dragons and swordfighting with expert evil swordsmen twice their size (and beating them) and casting spells -all mixed up to make a blatant allegory with no depth whatsoever. Anyway...who cares...)
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I just finished reading Thunder of Heaven by Tim Lahaye. His end-times fiction is getting old...there's only so many times that you can tell the same story...it was a pretty enjoyable read, with a fairly riveting storyline, though. I'd give it a 7/10.
It's been awhile, hasn't it?
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I finished Heather Song by Michael Phillips. It was very good although I liked Angel Harp better. I am now starting A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner.
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I read a lot of books, but I skimmed through the AstroKids series by Robert Elmer. Ehh. There's a reason why they're written for little kids :p
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City of Angels by Tracie Peterson and James Scott Bell

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Jesus' Princess wrote:I just started Escape from Warsaw, partly for school, partly for pleasure, and then I'm reading the Millie Keith series and I just finished book 5 last night :)
:inlove: wonderful book. I loved reading it. Although I do love WW2. I'm Reading Martin the Warrier right now, its part of the Redwall series.
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Graces4you wrote:
Jesus' Princess wrote:I just started Escape from Warsaw, partly for school, partly for pleasure, and then I'm reading the Millie Keith series and I just finished book 5 last night :)
:inlove: wonderful book. I loved reading it. Although I do love WW2. I'm Reading Martin the Warrier right now, its part of the Redwall series.
I love the Redwall series! I read a few of them a long time ago, but I've been thinking of picking them up again.
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Hostage by Nancy Mankins \:D/
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I just finished I AM NUMBER 4 by Pittacus Lore, and enjoyed it greatly! And now I am starting on rereading the Artemis Fowl series for the 4th time :D
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Hmm...well, I recently read parts of the last two Mysterious Benedict Society books, and I read the first two Dork Diaries books a few weeks ago. I really want to get my hands on The Son Of Neptune, though--Percy has claimed his series back! \:D/
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TigerintheShadows wrote:Hmm...well, I recently read parts of the last two Mysterious Benedict Society books.
:inlove: I loved reading those books, I'm reading Lyddie by Katherine Patterson righ now.
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Nothing ATM. Need to go to the library and get more I guess.

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