I stumbled upon this one at the bookstore and I wanted to buy a copy to give away. This edition is light-weight and the pages are breezy and flippable. This is not the whole of the Scriptures, but the excerpts are very substantial chucks of the Bible, giving special attention to the Gospels. I ha...
I'm a big football fan, so when I didn't get tickets for a major tournament taking place in my country, I decided to work there as a volunteer and see it from the backstage. The fan's curiosity is natural in any sport, so books like this one is a 100% hit to get attention.Would I recommend it to ...
Take Action Bible NKJVWant to be more active in your faith and be inspired by others stories of action, then this is the perfect Bible for you. This New King James Version Bible reads like similar Bibles, yet has stories of people from around the world who are making a difference in the Body of ...
I don't know that one has much choice but to rate this book highly. Even if you are not a religious person, it is one of the most diverse, thought-provoking and influential books of all time. As a professing Christian it has even more significance to me . . . This is my third or fourth time rea...
* this review contains spoilers*This book is one of the most famous, and certainly one of the most intriguing historical family dramas ever written. Psychologically and emotionally it is in many ways "ahead of its time", charting as it does the life, loves and turbulent relationships of a father...
Wow! I asked my local librarian for some Young Adult fiction that included football in the plot, looking for something my niece might enjoy reading. This is the book she recommended. I finished the book in one night. I was expecting football, and I definitely got plenty of that in this excell...
Njal's Saga is by far the longest of the sagas of the Icelanders, and it appears to be the general agreement that it is also the best among them, an assessment that I am not going to deviate from. In principle, Njal's Saga is just like the other sagas (The Sagas of Icelanders) - it has their fres...
The Arabian Nights are famous for their magnificent storytelling, and their illumination of the Eastern world. This translation is simple and literal while maintaining some of the poetry and mystery of the stories, as accomplishment to be sure. However, the brutality of stories, even when told in...
Explores the question of why we die14 July 2012tWith the possible exception of sections of the Bible (and many of the dates that we ascribe to the various books are speculative at best) this would be the oldest piece of literature that I have read and reviewed. The epic was discovered in 1853 and...
[As I have not read the Nights yet, this is not a commentary on them, but rather a comparison of the many translations available. This used to be a comment on my not-yet-review of the first volume of the Lyons translation of the Nights, but I thought it would be more helpful if it was a review. I...
الحقيقة اني فخورة اني انجزت اخيرا قراءة اول كتاب في العالم و في التاريخ :) ! على حسب ما وصلنا .. إلى الآن *****حاجة على الماشي كده ؛> :واضح ان البيروقراطية دي إرث أصيل في مجتمعنا المصري :)) المتوفي عندهم كان بيتحول في 100 حالة و بيؤدي 100 طقس ، و بيمر على 100 محكمة و 100 إله ( المئات دي كلها مج...
God's first foray into the world of literature has made quite a splash. People the world over are talking about this book (or series of books if you want to get pedantic) and for good reason; It makes some grandiose claims, it purports to be the complete authority on almost all areas of human end...
Edit: 18/07/2014 After some research, I've finally found out that this book is NOT a true story, at all. It was passed off as a real, anonymous diary for years and years, but the author is actually Beatrice SparksDoes this change my opinion of the book? Only slightly. I'd like to know when I'm ab...
Top contender as the best smut book ever written. Outside of violence, bestiality, and watersports—sorry, aficionados, but you'll have to seek elsewhere—there is no perversion that is not committed by the cheerful congeries of libidinous Victorian Era libertines who populate the cast. Most impres...
If you like reading about brave and honorable warriors in a strange faraway land, you might like this -- just as much as you like some fantasies, even though these stories are based on historical facts.This is the Japanese version of Homer. We don't really know the very original author, but we kn...
Not nearly as good as the first volume, which seems strange as it contains some of the more famous stories. But the entire book is consumed by extremes, which renders most of characters and plotting woefully inconsistent. Characters are intelligent in one moment and stupid the next. Circumstances...
Here are some of my favorite passages:2:47 - You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.2:48 - Perform your duty equiposed, O...