Chaim Potok

Advantages: So moving it will pluck your heart stings.
Disadvantages: A bit difficult to get into the yiddish worldview.

..., a self-hater, an inflictor of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.” What did he do that was so terrible and what were the repercussions? You will have to read it yourself to find out. Chaim Potok was a superb writer and I consider this book to be one of the best novels I have ever read. Something about it touched me deeply. Potok paints with words how one would expect Asher Lev to paint on canvas. There is so much depth of feeling in this novel it does not seem like fiction – if Potok didn’t experience something like this in his own life then he is an even greater novelist. The conflicts in this novel set in a Hasidic community are the more poignant because of it but the ideas transcend... Read review

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Advantages: Could be the Greatest Story EVER told.
Disadvantages: You may have to order it.

...of similar minded people together as the Tribulation Force, a core group determined to challenge the forces of evil during the Tribulation period predicted in the Bible. Their studies show that the Tribulation will last for seven years and that only one person in four of the Earth’s population will survive. The odds against the Tribulation Force must be far greater. DRAMATIS PERSONNAE: Important characters in the book are: Rayford Steele, Chloë Steele, Hattie Durham. Nicholae Carpathia: former President of Romania , becomes secretary general of UN, takes Hattie firstly as his secretary and then lover. The Antichrist. Cameron Williams: Journalist, founder member of the Tribulation Force, later marries Chloë Tsion Ben Judah: rabbinical scholar and Israeli statesman. Chaim Rosenzweig: Israeli botanist and Nobel prize winner. THE AUTHORS... Read review

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Advantages: Mini Art Gallery in our own home
Disadvantages: Mini Art Gallery = small size pictures

...(The Prophets Daniel and Isaiah) 433. Smith, David (VB XVII) 434. Snyders, Frans (A Game Stall) 435. Sodoma (The Descent from the Cross) 436. Soulages, Pierre (Painting 16) 437. Soutine, Chaim (The Little Pastry Cook) 438. Spencer, Sir Stanley (Saint Francis and the Birds) 439. Spiliaert, Léon (Moonlit Beach) 440. Staël, Nicolas de (Red Bottles) 441. Steen, Jan (The Christening Feast) 442. Stella, Frank (Kastura) 443. Still, Clyford (Painting, 1944) 444. Stuart, Gilbert (George Washington) 445. Stubbs, George (mares and Foals in a Landscape) 446. Sutherland, Graham (Portrait of Somerset Maugham) 447. Tamayo, Rufino (Woman with Red Mask) 448. Tanguy, Yves (The Invisibles) 449. Tàpies, Antoni (Grey Ochre) 450. Tatlin, Vladimir (Monument to the Third International) 451. Teniers, David (The Archduke Leopold's Gallery) 452. Ter Borch, Gerard... Read review

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