The Icarus Hunt is not good literature. It is not even particularly good storytelling. It is stereotypical in every way, full of stock characters, repeating scenes, intricate and fanciful set-ups, cheesy and over-the-top humor. Yet for all that The Icarus Hunt manages to play itself off as a fun read, a blockbuster kind of action [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 11, 2008
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Virtually all students of American history are well acquainted with the major historical characters and events of the Civil War. Those more advanced can likely delineate sociological and economic factors that caused America’s bloodiest and deadliest war ever. What Mark Noll manages to do in this well written [...]
February 7, 2008
Jack Johnson – Sleeping Through the Static
This is a rather large departure from my normal fare, as far as music goes, largely because most of the music I endorse and listen to you cannot buy at Best Buy. Not so with the music plug for this week. Departing from the road less trodden and merging onto the music industry highway [...]
