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Lrcrabtree
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Username: Lrcrabtree

Post Number: 15
Registered: 1-2007


Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi all, sorry that I've been silent / absent for so long, but I've been pretty busy. Anyway, on to the subject here.

I would like to get folks take on a book that was recently given to me. I haven't had a chance to read it yet so I don't really know what it is about. It is entitled "The Flight Of Peter Fromm" by Martin Gardner. My oldest brother sent it to me with a note: "This is the book I mentioned when we were talking around the dining room table. It kind of mirrors my own philosophical journey. Hope you enjoy it."

By the way, this brother graduated from PUC, in '68 I think, and got his doctors degree from LLU. He then taught in SDA schools for years before finally leaving altogether. I think he is currently disillusioned in religion completely, not just SDA theology.

Anyone ever read this book? What do you think of it?
Helovesme2
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Post Number: 794
Registered: 8-2004


Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 9:31 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Haven't read it. Didn't even know it existed till you mentioned it here. However I did just look up "The Flight of Peter Fromm" on Amazon and found the review by David Mitchel particularly interesting. I'll quote only part of it here because I'm not sure if it's ok to post the whole thing:


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This is one heck of an entertaining book. The main reason is this: Gardner's narrator, Homer Wilson, is downright hilarious. Both his telling of Peter's story and his asides remind me of Uncle Screwtape in C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. Throughout the book, Homer subtly spins every story he recounts and every subject he addresses. . . . It is strangely exciting to read a story narrated by someone you know you can't trust.


I would recommend _The Flight of Peter Fromm_ to both agnostics and Christians. . . . Christians should take a good hard look at the road that leads, step by tiny step, to unbelief, and ask whether reason demands each step taken down that road. Hopefully all readers will appreciate the meticulous research, wonderful details, and humor that combine to make _The Flight of Peter Fromm_ a truly remarkable work of intellectual and historical fiction."



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