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Title: A Man Called Blessed by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright ISBN: 0-8499-4380-9 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of the year!
Comment: Best book I've read since The Red Tent swept me off my feet a year ago. Good authors are hard to find these days, but a freind recommended another novel by one of the authors (When Heaven Weeps, Ted Dekker) and I found it captivating and inspiring, so I bought Man Called Blessed on a whim. I am a hard to please, avid reader of fiction, and rarely does a novel move me the way this one did. The characters are rich and the culteral tapsitry is well drawn. The plot is fast paced and hard to interupt once you're drawn in. All aspects of a good story. But it was the journeys of Caleb and Rebecca that impacted me the most. This is the kind of novel that makes you want to take a hammer to your television set and invest your inheritance in a library full of books. Well done!
Rating: 5
Summary: 4 1/2 Stars...Great Story, Great Message, Mediocre Finale
Comment: I've read all Dekker's work, and "A Man Called Blessed" is one of the best. Whereas I felt "Blessed Child," the prequel, dragged a bit, this book takes off and rarely slows down.
The story starts with two assassins on a collision course, with Caleb in the crosshairs. One assassin is a Muslim intent on stopping the second, a female Israeli intent on uncovering the lost Ark of the Covenant. As hinted at in "Blessed Child," Caleb has information regarding the ark's whereabouts. Soon, the Muslim and the Israeli descend upon his abode in a rebuilt Ethiopian monastery, and the tension mounts.
In the prequel, Caleb was a child so heavenly it was hard to relate to him. For me, it was hard to even believe he was human. In this book, Dekker lets us see a grown Caleb now struggling wiht his doubts. This is a Caleb we can touch and relate to. It's also a Caleb very desirable to a certain Jewish assassin woman.
Suspense, romance, faith, and extremism all play their parts in this well-spun novel. The only complaint on my part: the fast paced scenes led to a mediocre crescendo. The overall message of this book is a powerful one, though, and demands that we look beyond icons and relics (such as the recent "Jesus Box") and discover the Truth behind the religious facades.
Here's a quick peek at the future...
I've had a chance to read some of Dekker's up-and-coming work. Watch out! Everything up to this point has just been a teaser. Don't miss his early stuff, but race to the store for his newest novels, "Blink" and "3". You'll be blown away!
Rating: 5
Summary: Caleb returns!
Comment: Caleb is back! Yet he's lost his child like faith to a point. There were times in this book where I look back at my own life and feel like Caleb. But all in all this was an awesome read and I was once again enlightened by Ted Dekker. I found myself tearing through this book, just like any other Dekker work! Ted Dekker never ceases to amaze me. Good stuff!
It seems like Dekker and Bright hit you with a big league curve in certain places, and just when you thought you couldn't be taken any further out of your comfort zone, BOOM! And I love it! Have fun with this one. I think it is fair to say that if you haven't at least tried Dekker's work, you are truly missing out on a treat. That is how good he is!
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Title: Blessed Child : by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright ISBN: 0849943124 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Thunder of Heaven by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849942926 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: When Heaven Weeps - A Novel - by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849942918 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 28 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Heaven's Wager by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849942411 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Blink : by Ted Dekker ISBN: 084994371X Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 08 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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