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Monday, August 30, 2004 1:13 AM

Pop (Culture) Quiz

OK, pop quiz.. Name the book: “This novel by Dan Brown concerns the murder of a man outstanding in his field, who is found naked with markings at the crime scene which lead the authorities to call in Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon for advice.
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:33 AM

The other books....

OK, now that I've trashed “Joshua”, I might as well discuss the other books in the book club this year. (Note, the club is run by St Valentines Roman Catholic Church is Bloomfield, NJ, so you might sense a theme in them). First was Running
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:19 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 3)

Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. But after all of that, the thing that most bothered me, and moved me from merely being disappointed in the book at actually offended by it, is a 20 page story arc, which he mounts a slanderous attack against the First Amendment
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:15 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 2)

Part 1 is here. Part 3 is here . This brings us to the next major failing of the book: The character of Joshua. In an attempt to make him a “Christ-like character”, Girzone spends too much time trying to make him “Christ-like” and not enough on making
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:59 PM

Book Review: Joshua and the City (Part 1)

Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here . I want to talk about the book I just finished. Normally, I wouldn’t bother with a full critique, but I found this book so bad on so many different levels, I felt compelled to comment. The book is “Joshua and the City”
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