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Summary: Wonderful Anna
Review: This book touched my soul. I found this book in my Grandparents basement one day and I don't know what it was about the book but it drew me and I just picked it up and started reading, I did not stop until it was finished. I cried, laughed, thought, and wondered along with Anna and Fynn from the very first page to the very last. This book is pure joy and wonder, just like Anna. I suppose most importantly I learned from Anna, things about life, things about myself. Anna was truly full up, she is now and forever will be in my middle. Whats that the answer to?
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Summary: Hum
Review: This book was interesting. It is kind of hard to believe that this actually happened though. I'm not a big fan of religious things though.
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Summary: Lives of the Saints revisited
Review: This is a formula book, aimed at people who are already convinced of the existence of their god. It's as realistic as one of the medieval Lives of the Saints, and as subtle as anything from Stalinist Russia, where heroic peasants worked heroically for the common heroic good.Here a little girl uses the socratic method to "enlighten" her guardian in the ways of god. The character of the little girl will be unrecognizable to anyone who's ever encountered a real child for more than five seconds. This would be acceptable if it were not for the fact that the philosophy is threadbear. Only an uncritical acceptance of second-hand ideas coupled to a second-rate god would make this an interesting work. The writing itself is workmanlike enough, though this doesn't preclude the inevitable tedium that comes from the subject matter itself. In other words, it's a false piece of writing, just as hagiography was false and heroic socialistic heroism was false. Spare yourself this juvenile meandering. If you really want to know something about the way god has evolved in the west, take a look at Karen Armstrong's book A History of God. Far more interesting and insightful, and much more capably written as well.
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