Advantages: Insightful, well written, unusual Disadvantages: -
...I love GeorgeFowler's book 'Dance of a Fallen Monk'. His subtitle, 'A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment', is very apt for in this book he traces the journey his life has taken from 'down on the farm' outcast to monk to priest to marriage.
Fowler begins by describing his somewhat desolate and directionless adolescence, brought to a climax by friendship with Datus, a stranger in town who took an intellectual interest in Fowler (and gave him the sort of attention he craved). Fowler's early life is in many ways typical of the middle-American ideal of growing up -- solid and secure, but not terribly exciting. While it is commonplace for the culture to encourage the ideal of striving for better things, in fact the greater pressure is toward conformity, which requires that one not advance too much, or too far, and certainly not go beyond...
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...copy is slightly different from the one used by CIAO with it being blue in colour, rather than green. It has the obligatory 'Wordsworth Reference' across the top in a narrow band with a picture, presumably of Wordsworth, separating the two words. Emblazoned beneath that is the title of the book and immediately underneath the Crowned King's Lion emblem followed below by the authors names - H.W. & F.G. Fowler.
H.W. & F.G. Fowler were brothers. The abbreviations stand for Henry Watson and Francis [Frank] George. The former lived from 1858-1933 and the latter from 1870-1918. They worked together to compose not only this work but also the First Oxford Concise Dictionary [1911] and The Pocket Oxford Dictionary [1924]. The King's English was first published by them in 1906 and went through a further two editions, one in *1908 and the last being...
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Advantages: Insightful, well written, unusual Disadvantages: -
...I love GeorgeFowler's book 'Dance of a Fallen Monk'. His subtitle, 'A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment', is very apt for in this book he traces the journey his life has taken from 'down on the farm' outcast to monk to priest to marriage.
Fowler begins by describing his somewhat desolate and directionless adolescence, brought to a climax by friendship with Datus, a stranger in town who took an intellectual interest in Fowler (and gave him the sort of attention he craved). Fowler's early life is in many ways typical of the middle-American ideal of growing up -- solid and secure, but not terribly exciting. While it is commonplace for the culture to encourage the ideal of striving for better things, in fact the greater pressure is toward conformity, which requires that one not advance too much, or too far, and certainly not go beyond...
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Advantages: Good, Fast Paced Disadvantages: Could Only find it in paper back
...This was the first Fowler book I read, it took me 2 days to read, by that I don't mean that it was a short book, no way, It is fast action backed that has you thinking what really goes on in London when people are a sleep?
The main character is someone I could relate to, I felt like i should get in my car and get down to london to help him. The way the story flows is magical, the only bad thing i can say is to find Christopher Fowlers books you have to do a lot of looking, they are not easy to find....
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