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Title: The Damnation of Theron Ware (Penguin Classics) by Harold Frederic, Scott Donaldson ISBN: 0-14-039025-1 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my all time favorite American novels.
Comment: Over 20 years working as a bookseller, this is the novel I would most often recommend to customers who were seeking a truly entertaining out-of-the-ordinary novel. I've read it three times now, and am looking forward to a fourth in the next year or so. The main characters are fresh and utterly believable and they are surrounded by a fine cast of eccentrics. Frederic is a exceptionally visual writer. This book would make a fabulous movie.
Rating: 4
Summary: Entertaining story about naivete and perhaps... illumination
Comment: This novel is very entertaining. The protagonist finds himself in an unusual situation and his ideals are challenged. Of course, when such an event happens, the question may occur: If I am wrong in my ideas, who is right? This novel shows how moral uncertainty can lead to the unexpected. Halfway through the novel, I was somewhat bothered by Theron's idealism. However, the later pages remind the reader that the path to illumination is not easy. Does Theron reach the end of that path? The novel develops some great ideas and illustrates an example of idealism in its many forms. This idealsim is the center (and focus of criticism) of the novel, and Frederic does a great job in examining it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Something to Remember Him By
Comment: Okay, granted. In some ways, this is pretty thin soup. A short novel, after all, and not by any stretch of the imagination a major novel, certainly not in the sense that Middlemarch or Ulysses are major. But I'd put this on a list of personal favorites. And there are certain second rate novels which for all their second-rateness should not be lost. Frederic lived not too long, accomplished not very much, saw not everything there was to be seen - but in this little fable of a Methodist preacher who never quite got the point, Frederic himself pretty much gets it right. Not a mean achievement for a lifetime, and so one not to be forgotten.
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Title: Helping People Through Grief by Delores. Kuenning ISBN: 0871239213 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Achieving Balance in Ministry by Anthony J. Headley ISBN: 0834118165 Publisher: Beacon Hill Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations As Emotional Systems by Peter L. Steinke ISBN: 1566991102 Publisher: Alban Inst Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships by Michael Nichols ISBN: 1572301317 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 03 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Lay-Driven Church by Melvin J. Steinbron ISBN: 0830719288 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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