Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige with Dan Koon

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Following Escape Camp 14 with Ruthless was a fairly easy transition. The work camps of North Korea have eerie similarities with the SeaOrg work conditions within Scientology. Miscavige makes the association, lumping in Nazi Germany, himself. Ron Miscavige, father of cult leader David Miscagive, left the Church of Scientology in 2012 after 40 decades involvement including 27 years in the SeaOrg. He brought his family, including teenage son David, into the fold and devoted his life to the “church” included traveling to England for classes. At sixteen David left what meager schooling he was still attending to join to SeaOrg full time. David managed […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:67 |

Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

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There is a pretty good story, here, but it’s lost in the sonorous ramblings of a man too fixated on scenery. Do I need to provide a synopsis? Surely we’ve all seen the movie (not the new one, which I assume is atrocious). In short: it’s a revenge tale, of a first century Jewish man who has his life ruined by a childhood friend, a Roman. Judah Ben Hur spends years as a galley slave, before lucking his way back into wealth and the good graces of Rome. He then takes out his revenge in a fabulous chariot race then […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

The Oasis – where I’ve got friends in low places

Genesis - Part VI: Ch 23-26 by God. Obviously. With a little help from his friends in low places

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Previously on Supernatural…. Ishmael and Abraham’s baby mama are kicked to the desert curb because Sarah has ISSUES and God pranks Abraham with the old “sacrifice your son” gag then promises more descendants ruling over everything forever. This week… Patty: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Sarah finally bites it at the ripe old age of 127. Good riddance, I say. Abraham needs a place to bury his wife, so most of Ch 23 is all: Abraham: Let me pay you for the land to bury my wife. Ephron: No, I couldn’t. Just bury your wife on my land. Abraham: […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

I will not submit.

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

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I started writing this review about the academic epiphany I had while reading this book: the character mentions many writers, thinkers, philosophers, in quotations that made no sense to me. I felt incapable of what I chose as a career. But in the course of writing it, I realized that I got more upset about the book because of another characteristic of mine: that I am a woman. Submission carries such a heavy burden for real events that its pages fail to meet the expectations placed on them. The book follows a professor of literature, solitary and indifferent, who sees […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

The Shack

The Shack by William P. Young

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In The Shack we follow Mackenzie Phillips’ (Mack). Mack has five children, two of them are out of the house. On Labor Day weekend, Mack takes his three youngest children, a son and two daughters, camping at Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon. Mack’s wife, Nan, is unable to join them. They spend the long weekend there exploring the area and having a good time. On the last morning, the older of the two children on the trip, go for one last canoe ride on the lake. It is at this time that disaster strikes. While on the canoe, it flips, trapping his son below […]

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5/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

Mothers and Fathers and Sons

Genesis Part V: Ch 21-22 by God

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Previously on Supernatural… Attempted rape, attempted sexual assault bait-and-switch, the destruction of two cities, a spouse gets turned into table salt, incest, and a lot of PattyKates screaming. Let’s see what the Creator has in store for us this week… God makes good on his promise to Sarah and gets her knocked up. The bouncing baby boy is named Isaac (“laughter” which, as an aside, is an awesome name) and Sarah, true to form, is all CHECK IT BITCHES! I GOT ME A BABY FROM GOD. The kid is circumcised and eventually weaned, at which point Abraham – ever the […]

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4/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

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The Screwtape Letters consists of 31 letters ‘found’ by C. S. Lewis that are from the demon Screwtape to his rookie nephew Wormwood.  Wormwood has been tasked with the corruption of a human soul, referred to only as “The Patient.”  God is referred to as “The Enemy” while the Devil is “Our Father Below.”  The whole thing is a satirical and ironic.   I first experienced The Screwtape Letters about 7 years ago as an off-Broadway play, and I loved it.  It was funny, and poignant, and made me think.  Listening to it on audiobook now leaves me a bit… […]

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4/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church

The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South by Patrick Q. Mason

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“A Mormon has a right to believe what he will. His thoughts may be as free as the unconfined air, and his conscience should by no means be restrained by legal enactments. But his acts are quest a different thing.” -Raleigh News and Observer, July 20, 1881

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4/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

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