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Herodotus: The Father of History (The Great Courses)
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The Western Literary Canon in Context (The Great Courses): Audio CD set
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A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex
The Great Courses, The Skeptic's Guide to American History
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The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories
The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters!
Dracula's Guest and Other Victorian Vampire Stories
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The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
Tales from the Perilous Realm
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The Iliad of Homer
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Could've done without all the Church bashing but the rest of the book was so good it made up for that.
As an ex-Benedictine monk, Johnson is at his best talking about pagan philosophy as opposed to when he talks about Christianity.
Really three & a half stars. I took a half star off for them missing the distinction between what role magic plays in Lewis' works & what role it plays in the Harry Potter series & also failing to realize in Harry Potter magical ability is an innate trait & not some occultic power. Other than that, though, the book was excellent.
A really excellent & fantastic book. Really hits to the heart of infertility issues & is compassionate & empathetic because of the personal experience of the author. But most of all it's dripping & overflowing with the compassion & good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.Good also for men to read, especially pastors, but also men who are struggling with infertility too. A lot of things hit home for me as my wife & I married late in life & had fertility issues. While it hasn't been too much of a loss for me not to have children, I do have twinges every now & then wondering what it'd be like to initiate a child into the cult of Cubs fandom or of sharing Lewis, Tolkien, & Rowling with them.
