A badly organized and frequently incoherent religious treatise.
A heavily detailed work of Christian eschatology.
In this debut, Sloan delves into the Old and New Testaments to paint a complicated picture of the workings of God in the world and the duties of the Christian faithful, as Earth heads toward the end times. Throughout the book, the author returns regularly to a concept that he dubs “GGTMF” (“Giving God the Big Middle Finger”)—the idea that people willfully choose to disregard God’s rules for living a good and righteous life. He offers a wealth of detail while making his case. However, typographical and syntactical errors abound throughout the text (such as “Jesus remained silent in the presents [sic] of God”). Adding to the confusion is the work’s muddled millenarianism, which draws on a jumbled collection of works from Josephus to the Book of Revelation to support a worldview in which “God calls the predestined to Jesus Christ somewhere down life’s road; the foreordained are transformed by ‘The Indwelling of Holy Spirit.’ ” Some of the book’s specific assertions seem confused; Jesus doesn’t speak “to the dead in the religions in the synagogues of Satan” in Luke 4, for instance. Nor is it correct to state, regarding Daniel 7:26, that on “9 June AD 67 the court was opened and they destroyed #6 Emperors’ [sic] Nero’s dominion forever,” because Nero ruled until the year 68, and the Roman Empire stood for a further 400 years. The book’s most troubling assertions are that all Jews are marked for damnation and that God uses scourges like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and the Islamic State group to punish the wicked. Many Christian readers will also disagree with the book’s conception of a God who intentionally deceives people so that they may be forever tortured in a lake of fire.
A badly organized and frequently incoherent religious treatise.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 458
Publisher: Kurti Publishing
Review Posted Online: Nov. 27, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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