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Luke!

Reviewed: 02-28-24

I really like Luke
This is fourth book
I even like the epilogues and previews

I'm blaming myself for not being able to latch on to this story
but it was definitely worth finishing.
and I like fis enthusiasm as the narrator.

I subscribe to his future.

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I'm sorry to admit that I knew nothing about him

Reviewed: 12-12-22

I'm sorry to admit that I knew nothing about GK Chesterton.
He is a consummate Christian apologist. He is clear and precise and concise without being heavy handed.

I'm not gonna say more than that except I would not want to have to come up against him in a polite debate in public. I'm gonna have to read more of his work and about him and I see also that he has several works of fiction. To be continued

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History I never knew

Reviewed: 12-06-22

Elements of Democracy meeting mob rule versus elitism Meaning both those who possess the classical education but also those who wanted the government to be based in a special district the way it is now. A lot of given take but this book is mostly about the 4 1st founding fathers. Was actually very interesting I had no little or no knowledge about how the government came together through the founding documents.

The beauty of those documents is that they are alive. No they are not to be trashed like they are being today but then again they are able to be interpreted in many different ways and fortunately the way our government is designed it allows for give and take.

But I do wish that our current crop of legislatures lawywas Judiciary et cetera had more of a classic education than they do now. Everything's about pragmatism which is well finding good but there's an element of depth that is lacking in so many of our current so called leaders.

My only complaint about the reader sounds like the fellow who used to do the trailers for so many movies during the nineties with that deep voice but the tone of the book itself is a little bit weak.

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Egotism is trumped by individualism

Reviewed: 08-30-22

I heard it a long time ago
What you think of me is none of my business.

How can I learn to do the best thing in the best way possible.

What is my task on Earth. What if you don't like what I have to say or what I'm trying to do?

A short few years ago I read a book called the way of men written by a military man I was sure it was going to be about machismo and bravado. But it really depends on how you look at it doubt it and here were the 4 words that constituted to take home lesson, the same as in the fountain head

Honor, courage, mastery, and strength. In any order.

And each one of those words will mean something different to different to the man who is trying to do the right thing in the right way. 1 man's strength is another man's foolishness.

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Not exactly Perry Mason

Reviewed: 07-22-22

Lots of good twists and turns. She surprised me. Mary homie
That was the generation right before me. But I knew nothing about the marsh

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This is what's happening now

Reviewed: 07-10-22

I was in my early fifties s when this book was sent to me on 60Cd's As a birthday present.

Because of what's happening in the current administration, I realized how much I had missed the 1st time through

I also decided to skip the 10 hour psychopathical gobbledygook at the beginningOf that version and I'll tell you I didn't miss anything.

Also, when the narrator started, I found his voice to be weak but I was wrong. He took on power and authority as you went along.


It's been my experience my observation that Most if not all of the naysayers and critics Who demean this book like that like that fellow who compared it to The Lord of the Rings
Either didn't read it as an adult a real adult or didn't get it.

Reading this book is an opportunity not to be missed. You wanna know what's going on around us ?
read this book.

And to you kids who think that the heroes are unrealistic? After 2 decades of DC and Marvel movie superheroes, don't give me that.

These are real heroes with real direction. This is real fiction.


And the villains are real villains. They exist, just with different names. Watch the news. Oh better still, don't watch the news.

I wouldn't be surprised if I read it again within the next few years.

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This is my 2nd Huxley literature

Reviewed: 03-26-22

I hate to admit that I did not have any idea how sophisticated the world was in 1962.


Ultimately this is a story of a utopia in that it shows what could be without making any insistence or demands on the individuals involved but rather allowing a course to win its way for long enough.

All good philosophies at some point meet up and match up and this is no exception



For the poor you shall have with you always, but the son of man is with you for only a short time period




It's in my queue to listen to again in the near future. I don't do that very often.

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scholarship real

Reviewed: 03-10-22

If I ever thought I was a scholar r, with all my educational background, this this particular work by CS Lewis reminds me how how small I am.


The breadth and profundity of thought and expressionRequire me to go all the way through it again paying even more attention to the details.


In fact, I don't even feel proper giving too much more of a description because I think there's so much more to be understood.

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Prequel to The Hunger Games

Reviewed: 02-08-22

I'm looking forward to this being made into a movie. And just for fun I might even watch or listen to The Hunger Games over again.

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What do you get?

Reviewed: 01-24-22

What do you get when you cross ignorance self pity and sensationalism?

That's the problem with having critical aptitude.

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