The Seville Communion108 reviews Arturo Perez-Reverte Harvest Books, 1999 Seville Thriller + Eucharistic Detective Story with a Keystone Cops Flair + Odd Mystery with a Side of Computers + If you read one book this year, read this one + My Only Disappointment...             Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse10 reviews Roger Kimball Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002 Conserving our Culture. + Nice Survey of Modern Philosophy + A work of generous humanity + Enjoyable Essays             Ivanhoe (Tor Classics)53 reviews Sir Walter Scott Tor Classics, 2000 PERHAPS THE GREATEST NOVEL ABOUT KNIGHTS AND KNIGHTHOOD EVER + Worth The Effort + And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not + Better late than never + waterlilly             How Can We Keep From Singing: Music and the Passionate Life8 reviews Joan Oliver Goldsmith W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 I'm hooked after one paragraph. + Huge awakening to a cross-pollinization + What happens when you make a mistake? + nice!             Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human36 reviews Michael Chorost Houghton Mifflin, 2005 Great book for HOH, deaf, DEAF, and even those with perfect ears. + Being Part Computer Makes You More Human! Excellent Book + Insightful... and a peek at the future + My Ears Needed This             The Last Things: Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Eschatology Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003             Morgan's Passing22 reviews Anne Tyler Ballantine Books, 1996 Morgan's Passing + A life full of possibilities + Another wonderful read from Anne Tyler + Interesting, but confusing + slow but good             Broken Angels82 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2004 A great followup to Morgan's Altered Carbon debut! + Good book + Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan: A Review + Reminiscent of Gibson's sprawl series. + Not Free SF Reader             Tales of the Dying Earth45 reviews Jack Vance Orb Books, 2000 A Classic and Defining Work of Fantasy + Humor in fantasy + Vance struck gold + From a weak beginning to supreme mastery             Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations With Ancient and Modern Ethics1 review Stanley Hauerwas, Charles R. Pinches University of Notre Dame Press, 1997 Very good rational discussion on Christian virtue ethics Written by Stanley Hauerwas (the current professor of theological ethics at the Duke University Divinity School) and Charles Pinches (Professor of Theology at the University of Scranton, PA). As the title implies, it is a theological reflection upon ancient ethics (primarily Aristotle, the ...             The World of Jeeves8 reviews P. G. Wodehouse HarperCollins Publishers, 1989 Stories Don't Come Any Better Than This (or Any Funnier) + The Best of the Best + A Must-Read for Any British Comedy Enthusiast! + Perhaps the best introduction to & compendium of Wodehouse!             Pollution and the Death of Man5 reviews Francis A. Schaeffer, Udo W. Middelmann Crossway Books, 1992 Excellent Analysis of Christianity and the Environment + Classic Schaeffer + Pollution and the Death of Man review + Fantastic + An early warning to the church on environmental issues.             Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre2 reviews Robertson Davies Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Great book by a great author. + Interesting for a Davies' fan This is a delightful collection of Davies's thoughts on the theater in all its myriad forms, including opera, melodrama, tragedy, and comedy. Davies has a perfect mix of wit, erudition, and curmudgeonly attitude, and in addition to being a terrific writer, he is an ardent devotee of the stage. This ...             Russian Debutante's Handbook85 reviews Gary Shteyngart Riverhead Trade, 2003 dazzling + Choppy, original, and, hilarious. I am glad to see the term "picaresque" applied to this novel, for it truly belongs within that genre. But while the story bounds along, at times verging on the highly improbable, the language dazzles on every page - in every paragraph, in fact. The author, to whom English was (I imagine) a 2nd or ...             Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations21 reviews Christopher Lasch W. W. Norton & Company, 1991 Superbly Written and Incisive Critique + Powerful Indictment of U.S. Culture + by Hammer and Hand do all things stand... Christopher Lasch is intellect, you sense it as you read a flowing description of well-structured prose. He develops arguments, marshals facts, and presents his critique of so much that is debilitating modern society - American - and through ill-thought out emulation, British and other Western ...             Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)4 reviews H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 A Classic! + Best Of Mencken + If it weren't for Mencken, I'd go nuts I have recently finished "Prejudices," by H.L. Mencken. I knew little of the author, save that which I had gleaned by reading one of his other books ("A Discourse on the Gods," I think it was.) But, after coming away from the Satanic wag's essays, I am inclined to accord him a place in the ...             Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder7 reviews Richard A. Horsley Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002 An academic review of Horsley's "Jesus and Empire" + Very good as usual for Horseley + Excellent read + Thought provoking             The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)24 reviews Henry James Penguin Classics, 2003 Classic + James And The Process of Perception + This is the 1908 Edition! + hmm.             Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology2 reviews Albert Borgmann Brazos Press, 2003 A Reasonable Religious Response to Technology + this book was a real turn on. Borgmann lucidly explicates the occluding nature of technology in this brief treatise. He argues that the possibility of a rich public life of celebration and personal life of focal practices are hidden by the disengaging nature of technology, and thereby stips life of fundamental meaning. In this ...             John Rosemond's Six-Point Plan: for Raising Happy, Healthy Children27 reviews John Rosemond Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1989 The Missing Parenting Manual + down to earth, no-nonsense parenting tips + John Rosemond outshines the rest + Fine, Behavioristic-Flavored Text