Here are some for negative list the works of Philip Pullman. The attacks on “His Dark Materials” in these reviews seem fair and well reasoned for the most part. Good reviews overall but perhaps the heavy use of the term “Satanism” was over kill at times. This book sounds like cultural marxism at it’s worst. Even an NPR show which discussed this book admitted it is an anti-Christian polemic. The whole His Dark Materials trilogy looks pretty bad and these are children’s books?
Yes the “The Handmaid’s Tale” sounds very nasty, we should remember the point of it is to attack White Christians and it is required reading for high school students in some places. I have not read it, but sophomore year of high school I was required to read the The Bluest Eye(wikipedia) by “Nobel Prize” recipient Toni Morrison. I stopped reading before the climax of the story, it was just too disgusting. And then I was required to read “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” which had a sub plot where black children sabotaged the road to attack the white children’s school bus which crashes, it won a Newbery Medal.
This is an interesting book. I am not fan of “Big-Time College Sports” but I do not think they are the cause of the problem, but I agree nothing good comes of them. That said the book does give a good view of nasty and dirty places American colleges have become. Sports is only a small part of the problem, the tolerance and even promotion of promiscuity, drunkenness, and drugs are a much worse problem. It is a good book and title “beer and circus” is all too true. I read this book while sitting in the library of State University and thought all too true…
Worse yet, which topic Sperber does not cover, is the student is given two choices marxist indoctrination or going to an orgy; the student that wants a “meaningful education” has little available to them.
Using original research culled from students, faculty and administrators around the country, he proves that many schools, because of their emphasis on research and graduate programs, no longer give a majority of their undergraduates a meaningful education. Instead, they offer a meager and dangerous substitute: the party scene surrounding college sports that Sperber calls “beer and circus,” and which serves to keep the students happy and distracted while the tuition dollars keep rolling in.
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber
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I did a search, and while some of the more politically incorrect tomes come with a disclaimer (as did The Bell Curve), there are some interesting items available.
Sometimes we get lucky, and other fine people write reviews of books we don’t have time to read necessarily. Over at First Word they have started a critique of Ken Ham’s First Blood, which will dissect the book assertion by assertion. Should be fascinating!
One Blood, a book by Ken Ham, C. Wieland, and D. Batten (see detail at bottom) is a creationist attack against “racism.” The burden is to argue that the biblical account of creation entails recognizing the common descent of all men, and that because of this common descent, all stereotyping, prejudice, or forbidding of marriage on the basis of race is misguided if not sinful.
A book I can’t recommend: Elsie Dinsmore: Elsie’s Endless Wait. ISBN 1-928749-01-1, part of the Elsie Dinsmore: A Life of Faith series.
The book has been so bowdlerized from the original version that it is virtually unrecognizable, and contains, on page 27, the admonition “...there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free…” in a conversation between Elsie’s “mammy” (term used in original book) who ends up in the book being “Aunt Chloe,” Elsie, and Miss Allison, who warmly assert their equality in Christ with a warm handshake in person. Aunt Chloe speaks, not in the dialect of the original book, but with the finest diction possible.
For the real thing, search on Google Books for Elsie Dinsmore; the first entry is the correct, original one. While I still have reservations about the book, even the original, it’s much, much better than subjecting your daughter to this maudlin piece of propaganda.
This isn’t a review, rather a question ABOUT a review. I’m hoping you guys can help me.
I randomly click and read the archives at Cambria Will Not Yield.
I read a post recently that discussed various authors. A certain “white moment” was dicussed where a woman walks out of the house and approaches Nathan B. Forrest (who was busy addressing his troops before marching out.) She politely asks him to back up his horse. He does so, and she scoops up some of the dirt from under the hoof, wraps it in cloth and goes back in the house.
I can’t for the life of me find that CWNY post, nor can I remember the novel it comes from. I’d love to read it though…just imagining the scene gives me chill bumps.
