: do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it :

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

I finished the book. Everything I hoped it would be.

Ben Sherwood’s The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is just magical. Ten out of ten stars.

The only way I can really describe it is to say that it’s like:

Field of Dreams
The Sixth Sense
Ghost
Signs
What Dreams May Come
and Sunset Boulevard

all rolled into one . . .

And then made better. I fell in love with Tess, Charlie, and Sam. And it made me believe in miracles, again.

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The Kite Runner

Tonight I finished the book “The Kite Runner.” Porter, it was every bit as good as you said it was. A truly good book. And by good, I mean “good”. Not entertaining (though it was). Not riveting (though it was). Not moving (thought it was). But good. I felt like a better person for having read it, and I felt like being a better person for having read it. Truly inspiring. (Though I would not recommend it to many people - especially those who are already blessed with a sensitivity and who are disturbed by depictions of savage brutality.)

It’s hitting the Recommended Reading list . . . now updated with a few more titles.

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