Annette443pink Posted April 13, 2005 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 58 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 228 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 22 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/21/2004 Status: Offline Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Thanx for the info on the North books. I figured they were good. I haven't heard of these other authors mentioned. I'll have to check them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsth Posted April 13, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 297 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,586 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 193 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/09/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 13, 2005 Hey Annette! Thanks for asking the question! I bought one of his books for my brother in law, but never asked how he liked it. I did wonder at the time if they were any good, because they sounded very interesting! In His Love, Suzanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheya joie Posted April 13, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 351 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/15/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 13, 2005 After reading this thread yesterday, I checked the local library's online card catalog, and found that both Oliver North novels are available there. So I have checked out 'Mission Compromised.' I've read about 150 pages (out of 605) and like what I have read so far. What does it tell you about a novel, that on the copyright page in the front there is a notice that all quotes from the Bible, unless otherwise noted, come from a specific translation of the Bible? How many novels have such a note in them? Oh, and as I was reading chapter two last night - I was in tears. Very moving. Just from what I have read so far, I will give it a . Sheya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette443pink Posted April 13, 2005 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 58 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 228 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 22 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/21/2004 Status: Offline Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) What does it tell you about a novel, that on the copyright page in the front there is a notice that all quotes from the Bible, unless otherwise noted, come from a specific translation of the Bible? Edited April 13, 2005 by Annette443pink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneB Posted April 13, 2005 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 4 Topic Count: 232 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 7,261 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 79 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/30/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/19/1959 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Is there any romance at all in it? Yes, a little...but I liked the books regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheya joie Posted April 14, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 351 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/15/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 14, 2005 I'm glad I brought the subject up since quite a few people have not heard of the books. What Bible translation are they using? I'm thinking of buying these for someone and they want only one certain translation. Please let me know ASAP! I wondered if it had any Bible verses at all so I'm glad you brought that up. Is there any romance at all in it? Thanks!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The translation is NKJV. I don't yet know about romance, since I haven't had time to read much further yet. I am hoping the adulterous wife will come to the LORD, and repent and go back to her husband... Sheya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted April 14, 2005 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,260 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,988 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted April 14, 2005 sounds like I need to go to the book store. I was not aware he had written these books and they sound very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amor Posted April 14, 2005 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 1 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,194 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 34 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/18/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted April 14, 2005 a good military man, his was not to wonder why, but his was to do or die, do as he is told, and not to think for himself, as far as anybooks about him or by him, have not read any. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well "just following orders" was dismissed as an acceptable justification for criminal and imoral acts at the Nurenburg trials of Nazi criminals, so I don't see why it should be an acceptable now. North may be a poster boy of the American right, but he was also up to his neck in the squalid Iran-Contra affair. Helping negotiate an arms deal between Israel and their supposed enemies in the Islamic Republic of Iran and taking a kickback from the proceeds to fund contra terrorists involved in trying to overthrow the democratic, but left-wing government of Nicuragua. Furthermore, do you not think that he has admitted to lying to the US congress, a fact about which he seems unrepentant, make him less than perfect "christian" role model. Bearing this in mind and the fact that he is still alive - unlike the many Nicuraguan peasants slaughtered by his Contra allies - "his was but to do and lie" would be a more appropriate ending to that quote (the values of which in its original form are anyway profoundly anti-Christian). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneB Posted April 14, 2005 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 4 Topic Count: 232 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 7,261 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 79 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/30/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/19/1959 Share Posted April 14, 2005 a good military man, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheya joie Posted April 16, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 351 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/15/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 16, 2005 Ok, I finished reading the first one. Mini review time. I enjoyed it. Trying to remember the course of 600+ pages - but I don't think there was any cussing. Maybe 4 'sex' scenes - NOT graphic, discretely handled in my opinion. Two are positive, between a married couple. One is adulterous, and the woman goes through a lot of mental anguish afterwards. The last is a bad guy being a bad guy. This is a spy/military/high-tech novel, so it is something like a Tom Clancy. Some of it moved me to tears; some had me frightened for the characters. It was well-written, I thought. And... there was more than one clear presentation of the Gospel - including the Roman Road. I would reccommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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