For all those who love or hate war...

[theuedimaster]

I hereby order you heathen to read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Understanding is the key to maturation. Questioning constants will lead to enlightenment.

[PeOfEo]

doth thou haveth an excerpt?

[theuedimaster]

I don't know about an excerpt, but heres a quote:


Move on. Walk forward into the light.

It may seem like nothing, but that quote has a lot of punch once you read the book.

[PeOfEo]

But I need something that will make me want to read the book to begin with :)

[Ben Rogers]

I hereby order you heathen to read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Understanding is the key to maturation. Questioning constants will lead to enlightenment.Heathen? Is it a religious book, or a book on love/hate/fighting? As for "understanding is the key to maturation," understanding will make you mature, okay, and this book is the only way to understand? Riiight.

If it is the latter of my first question, then why wouldn't one want to develop such beleifs on their own? Experience and true, personal understanding is much better than being told as much. In fact, I'd go so far as to saying reading about these things is utterly worthless. And if it's a religious book (which would explain your use of "heathen," then "STFU" is as far as I can go...I'm not about to get away with starting a religious debate.

[gchick]

ookkkkkkaaaaayyyy.....although i do not completely agree with its concept

[theuedimaster]

Heathen? Is it a religious book, or a book on love/hate/fighting? As for "understanding is the key to maturation," understanding will make you mature, okay, and this book is the only way to understand? Riiight.

If it is the latter of my first question, then why wouldn't one want to develop such beleifs on their own? Experience and true, personal understanding is much better than being told as much. In fact, I'd go so far as to saying reading about these things is utterly worthless. And if it's a religious book (which would explain your use of "heathen," then "STFU" is as far as I can go...I'm not about to get away with starting a religious debate.

Wow, you're in a bad mood. First of all its not a religous book, for religion, or against religion. Thats not even the point of it, "The Poisonwood Bible" is just the name and it has some meaning to one of the characters in it. Yes, experience is so good isn't it.... why do we go to school? Its just so much better for us to find out stuff on our own right? Lets develop a language by ourself, etc. We don't need help right?

Books offer a great door to understanding DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. Sometimes people take the vision in their own eyes as the absolute truth, books can let people bring forward a wider vision. Maybe, it will stimulate though upon different subjects. If you're about to say literature is crap, then obviously you're being pretty stuck up. And I know you aren't ;).

I used heathen as a joke! I was pretending to give out an order to you guys, and I tried to put some humor into it. Dude, of course this isn't the only way to achieve understanding in something. You take things too seriously. I was just recommending a really good book to the rest of the community. You blowing up on a book just because the word bible is in it (by the way, i'm not even Christian) means that you're the closed minded one.

[Ben Rogers]

/giggle

[theuedimaster]

*nudge nudge*

[Ben Rogers]

"Nudge nudge," eh? Nudgage towards what?

[theuedimaster]

Your "giggle/". ;)

[Ben Rogers]

You're not being very funny if you're trying to nudge me into giggling.