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1 review
Billy M Thompson ThD DD

Outskirts Press, 2007

A must read!
This is just what we need to hear in our society today - and what so many are afraid to say. What a great book!!

Cheerleaders from Gomorrah: Tales from the Lycra Archipelago

3 reviews
John Rember

Confluence Press, 1993

A classic of environmental criticism and wonderful fiction
The book is essentially a masculine grieving. It opens with a short story of two women dedicated to the sport of recreational flirting in a town that was once a forgotten outpost of a remote, mountainous never-never land. Rember remembers Idaho's Salmon River area as the frontier left it and is contrasting that lamented, unspoiled never-never land with what it has become, a degenerate and ...

Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories

4 reviews
Samuel R. Delany

Vintage, 2003

Delany, but approachable...
Samuel Delany is often cited by other SF authors as an inspriation or a great practitioner of the craft of writing. His novels, such as Dhalgren and Triton, are well-regarded. They are also frequently unapproachable: big, gnarly books with big, gnarly subjects. They certainly are not much like the rafts of semi-literate junk that passes for much of SF these days. But you won't sit down and toss ...

Last Stage to Gomorrah

1 review
Barry Cord

Stoneshire Books, 1983

Superb storytelling
Frank Hayes was a stagecoach guard. When Hayes, the stagecoach and a quarter of a million dollars of gold disappear without a trace Wells Fargo find themselves with an insurance claim on their hands. Jeff Carter owes Sturvesant, Wells Fargo's boss, a favour and heads for Gomorrah to find the missing gold. Trouble was three previous investigators had already been shot dead and it soon looked like ...

Return to Sodom and Gomorrah

23 reviews
Charles R. Pellegrino

Harper Paperbacks, 1995

Wideangle View of the Ancient World
Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, recounts the volcanic eruption at the major Minoan port on what is now known as Santorini. The shear power of the blast, the wide distribution of the ash cloud and the tsunamis that followed, were of "mythic proportions" and engendered myths. According to another of my favorite books, When They Severed Earth from Sky (E.W.&P. Barber), myths are the result of oral ...

Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists

3 reviews
Charles Pellegrino

Random House, 1994

Save your Cheetos
In addition to very fascinating excursions to Mesopotamia, where the author sends a camera up in a kite to take photos of the scorched lines in the earth left over from what he suspects may by either Sodom or Gomorrah, and the profile of ancient Ninevah including a canal system inside the city walls, Pellegrino takes a moment to let us know that prior to the elimination of coconut oil as an ...

In Search of Lost Time (In Search of Lost Time Vol 4)

14 reviews
Marcel Proust

Allen Lane, 2002

a splendid translation and my favorite volume thus far
I am writing here of the "Penguin Proust" translation by John Sturrock. (Much of what appears on this page is misleading, with the editorial matter referring to an audiobook and many reader reviews to an earlier translation. Even first-sentence quote is not from Sturrock's translation!) Of the four Penguin Proust volumes I've read so far, this is my favorite--a wonderfully funny study of ...

SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH

135 reviews
Robert H. Bork

Regan Books, 1996

Not for Sissies!
This is definitely not a book for sissies. If you want hard hitting, historically accurate, and unassailable truth smacking you upside the head in every page, and you are willing to be open to read without criticism a critical critique of America's Narcissistic love of self and what consequences are coming down the pike, this is a must read. Bork pulls no punches. He explains in the first few ...

Jack Anderson: Mormon Crusader in Gomorrah

1 review
Daniel B Gibbons

AuthorHouse, 2003

A vividly written, accurate, informative chronicle
Jack Anderson: Mormon Crusader In Gomorrah by Francis M. Gibbons is an impressive biography of the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of "The Washington Merry-Go-Round" syndicated column. Chronicling Jack Anderson's childhood in Utah, his years of dedication to the Mormon Church, the danger he faced in World War II, and the intermeshing the religious, public, and political journalistic ...

Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

2 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2005

Helpful Footnotes
This new translations features 29 pages of helpful footnotes - limiting the need to constantly turn to Wikipedia for elucidation of Proust's many historical and literary references. The translation is easy to follow.

Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah

2 reviews
Andrew C. A. Jampoler

US Naval Institute Press, 2005

U.S. Navy to the Dead Sea
On 31 July 1847, four months after the capture of the port of Veracruz during the Mexican war, an expedition proposed by Lt. William Lynch to circumnavigate the Dead Sea was approved by the Navy. The specific goal of the expedition was to establish the elevation of the Dead Sea. He also intended to collect mineral and other specimens. What he really wanted to do was to find the ruins of Sodom and ...

Abraham & Lot/Sodom & Gomorrah (Superbook Video Bible #14)

Tyndale Entertainment, 1998

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

58 reviews
Dan Savage

Plume, 2003

It's best to err on the side of avoiding incestuous handjobs
Best quote, among thousands of jewels, from Dan Savage. A couple of years ago, I went on vacation with a bunch of friends to a beach resort town in South Africa. Clear blue water, white sand, skimpy bathing suits on lovely people of both sexes. Should have been a wild time, right? Well, it wasn't, at least for the first few days, because I brought along Skipping Towards Gomorrah for my ...

Suburban Gomorrah

2 reviews
R.J. Revaitis

Amazon, 2007

A guilty pleasure.
In Suburban Gomorrah, R.J. Revaitis introduces the reader to an interesting mix of characters, several of whom seem to subscribe to the belief that appearances in life are more important that substance. There are hints that a few of them want something more and Revaitis wisely spent sufficient time on these characters to enable the reader to bond with them. The writing style is appropriate for ...

Gomorrah

34 reviews
Roberto Saviano

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

What happens in Naples happens everywhere...
I was stationed in Naples from '91-'94. I roamed all over as military police. I saw corners of Naples that many Americans living there never even dream of visiting. My knowledge was based in hear-say though and I have now many years later begun to study the city and the country to better understand what I lived there. This book has been a real eye-opener. I suspect it is slightly sensationalistic ...

Welcome to Gomorrah

1 review
Niall Quinn

Merlin Publishing, 1995

Welcome to Gomorrah: Romance, hatred and revenge............
A simple love story, sowed at a Brazilian dock side surrounded with it's deceit and treachery, grew into a matured romance which eventually blossomed into true and realistic love filled with all it's doubts and jealousy of a normal healthy pair of human beings. This simple love story was made complicated by the highly intellectual and somewhat spiritual gift of the narrator to disconnect him self ...

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

1 review

Wildside Press, 2008

I like Rafferty, but...
This story did absolutely nothing for me. It went straight to my trash bin. At this point, I can't even remember what it's about, that's how little impact it made on me.

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