http://www.allconsuming.net/person/cubswn A list of things that sammy is consuming Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:56:18 GMT Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:15 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/ http://www.allconsuming.net/images/icons/43-icon-31x31.gif http://www.allconsuming.net/home <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060675187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1072">Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by John Shelby Spong</div><br clear="all" /><p>easily accessible w/ some novel ideas, but ultimately heretical poppycock.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:15 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14081 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8034"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345441419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8034">You Remind Me of Me</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Dan Chaon</div><br clear="all" /><p>beautiful novel about identity, family, life/death/love. 4/5 stars.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:15 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14080 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5710"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0310253853.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5710">Post-Evangelical, The (EMERGENTYS)</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Dave Tomlinson</div><br clear="all" /><p>fair. confusing layout. no really new ideas on emerging church, but fair treatment of common ideas/args.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14079 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24296"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802842836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24296">The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Tom Wright</div><br clear="all" /><p>good primer.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14078 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1401"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006093736X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1401">Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Simon Winchester</div><br clear="all" /><p>nowhere near as good as &#8220;prof &#38; madman,&#8221; although the middle and end are pretty interesting.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14077 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125097141_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277">The Human Stain: A Novel</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Philip Roth</div><br clear="all" /><p>for so many bad things to have happened in 400 pages or so, i sure did love this book.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14076 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27752"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0898705797.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056506399_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27752">Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Peter Kreeft</div><br clear="all" /><p>written form of lecture @ peterkreeft.com. great throughout, except for the couple of chapters when kreeft just gets goofy and converses w/ confucious, et al. and then proposes a trialogue b/tw c. s. lewis, luther and thomas aquinas. don&#8217;t know where in the world he was coming from there. very original ideas about ecumenism, though. i&#8217;ll read this one again.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14074 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800871863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891">Silence</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Shusaku Endo</div><br clear="all" /><p>seth&#8217;s rec. good book about contextualizing the gospel. what&#8217;s &#8220;westernized&#8221; and what&#8217;s inherent?</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:14 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14075 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713">The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Graham Greene</div><br clear="all" /><p>rec. from the old beer &#38; bull guys of essex, mass. wonderful story of a whiskey priest dealing w/ guilt and fear in the face of his impending death.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14068 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1931709327.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056539146_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34477">The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Michael Dubruiel</div><br clear="all" /><p>easily accessible primer; good for catechumenates, but not that informative for anyone who has been araound the altar for a while.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14070 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0971457646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28679">Cheap Ways To...</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Margaret Feinberg</div><br clear="all" /><p>pretty good practical ideas on being &#8220;cheap&#8221; from a xtian perspective. one was: &#8220;use ebay.&#8221;</p><p>i sold the book immediately.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14069 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22703"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767909054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22703">Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Edward T. O'Donnell</div><br clear="all" /><p>i&#8217;ve been watching a relatively new ric burns documentary series on new york lately. originally broadcast on pbs, i got the dvds from netflix. awesome show! i found this book as a sort of companion, although i&#8217;m only @ the outset of the 19th century in the series, and the gen. slocum burned in the teens, i think.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14072 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1054"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060652926.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51300982_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1054">Mere Christianity</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by C. S. Lewis</div><br clear="all" /><p>re-reading w/ a friend, but we&#8217;ve stopped for a while. i&#8217;ll pick this classic up again later.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14073 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27938"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/091847731X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27938">Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe)</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Dorothy L. Sayers</div><br clear="all" /><p>i&#8217;m disturbed by what @ times seems like a creed-less emerging church (and what almost always seems like creedless mainlines). the title embodies my feelings, and i wanted to hear what sayers had to say. the first few chapters are awesome; the last few are more doctrinal and less what i was looking for, but they&#8217;re good nonetheless.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:13 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14071 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4072"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156029987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084947726_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4072">Vernon God Little</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by DBC Pierre</div><br clear="all" /><p>funny in a <I>confederacy of dunces</I> way, probably even funnier. not one of my all timers, though.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:12 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14067 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10176"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385337116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10176">The Rule of Four</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Ian Caldwell</div><br clear="all" /><p>picked up on word of a bookseller i trust, but got bored w/ it. lost of princeton anecdotes, but i never caught the story&#8212;plus, i could never pronounce the freakin&#8217; book!</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:12 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14066 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6231"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312311796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6231">The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska Bush</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Bob Durr</div><br clear="all" /><p>why&#8217;d a tenured english professor @ syracuse decide to &#8220;prove up&#8221; as a salmon fisherman? probably interesting, but i didn&#8217;t have the time for it.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:12 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14065 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8459"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374199736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8459">The Missing Peace : The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Dennis Ross</div><br clear="all" /><p>saw the author on charlie rose. sounded not nuts. would&#8217;ve been a good book, but who&#8217;s got the time?</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:11 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14062 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26112"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0826513808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26112">Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by John Shelton Reed</div><br clear="all" /><p>a history of the oxford movement and what followed. the echoes of that movement are what drew me to the episcopal church.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:11 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14063 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29124"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400061520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1074283048_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29124">Visits from the Drowned Girl: A Novel</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Steven Sherrill</div><br clear="all" /><p>a man watches a suicide and then becomes obsessed w/ the life of the woman who drowned herself. enjoyed writing immensely, but got graphic in parts for no reason, and i got bored w/ that. it&#8217;s probably a victim of my growing inability to read fiction anymore.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:16:11 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14064 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy) <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31069"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570754705.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31069">Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series.)</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Robert Ellsberg</div><br clear="all" /><p>a favorite author&#8217;s more overtly spiritual offerings</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:15:52 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/14061 nobody@allconsuming.net (sammy)