At 02:49 PM 7/15/2003, Chet wrote:
*ASIS* didn't affect me nearly as much as the follow-up novel, *Sign of
Four* -- a rollicking adventure as well as a good mystery. But if you
think that Conan Doyle later put his prejudices aside, you'll find he had
another set of scapegoats in the Masons.
Regar
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:13:09 -0600 Steven Montgomery
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes that he's not Mark Gregson. Or is it
the other way around?:
>
> >= Mark Gregson [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
>
> Hmmm. Somehow, even though I love books and am a voracious reader,
> Sir (he
> was knighte
At 01:11 PM 7/11/2003, Mark Gregson wrote:
> IIRC one of the very early (perhaps the first) Sherlock Holmes
> novels had a very anti storyline. Anyone out there who can either
> confirm or refute?
Yep, and I've read the novel. "A Study in Scarlet" (1887). The
anti-Mormon stuff is not the fo
The chapters in question were literally forced into the novel -- and were
from a failed attempt at a play that Conan Doyle had earlier written. In
that play, the hero was the cliched "civilized Briton" in the cliched
uncivilized world -- in this case, Dr. John Watson. The play was more or
less th
I'm surprised there isn't more anti-Mormon fiction, given all the
nonfiction stuff there is out there. Well, technically I guess it's all a
fiction but it's not in a fictional form which would be quite interesting
and laughable.
Stacy.
At 03:11 AM 07/12/2003 +0800, you wrote:
> IIRC one
Speaking of interesting reading, what about the recently discovered
Truman Diary. . .this morning a quote was read where he basically
lambasted Jews, saying they had nothing on Hitler or Stalin when it comes
to harming other people. Then he went on to say that any underdog who
rises to power forge
IIRC one of the very early (perhaps the first) Sherlock Holmes
novels had a very anti storyline. Anyone out there who can either
confirm or refute?
Yep, and I've read the novel. "A Study in Scarlet" (1887). The anti-Mormon stuff is not the focus of the book but prominence is given to the n
At 07:07 AM 7/11/2003 -0800, The BLT wrote:
Apparently the book paints Mormons as latent killers because of their
tendency towards religious extremism.
If the guy really believed the premise of his own book, he wouldn't have
published it in the first place. Just think of all those millions of
At 09:07 AM 7/11/2003, JWR wrote, regarding the book by Jon Krakauer
called, _Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith:
I doubt if I will buy the book, but apparently a great many others
will. It isn't going to do our missionary work any good.
Steven Mongome
Stacy Smith wrote:
Is it a novel or nonfiction? Is there such a thing as an anti-Mormon
novel? Probably not, come to think of it.
=
Grampa Bill comments:
IIRC one of the very early (perhaps the first) Sherlock Holmes
novels had a very anti storyline. Anyone out t
Is it a novel or nonfiction? Is there such a thing as an anti-Mormon
novel? Probably not, come to think of it.
Stacy.
At 07:07 AM 07/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Boy, this list is really dead, only 23 messages since June and none in the
last three days. I've never seen anything like it since t
At 09:07 AM 7/11/2003, JWR wrote, regarding the book by Jon Krakauer
called, _Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith:
I doubt if I will buy the book, but apparently a great many others
will. It isn't going to do our missionary work any good.
I don't know John. I find that when t
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