Your personal opinion of a book as «being boring» does not make for a very objective answer — especially in light of
the fact of the particular book we're talking about which, needless to say, has a few fans that disagree with you
Not exact matches
The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this
book about the pleasure
of knowing the truth
of things, in
particular the delight
of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects
of existence,
of realising that all sorts
of «scraps
of evidence» point to the
fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account
of our existence.
In
fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance
of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing
of sacred
books, or the performance
of specific ritual acts.
Pete If you are referring to the inaccurate statement from the Smithsonian that atheists love to post regarding the Bible at least read the entire letter which excludes this: `... On the other hand, much
of the Bible, in
particular the historical
books of the old testament, are as accurate historical documents as any that we have from antiquity and are in
fact more accurate than many
of the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories.
He's totally hilarious, and the
fact that he floated the idea
of naming his second
book Sexy 2: Electric Vindaloo means that we are kindred spirits, because if you find a way to toss this
particular movie reference into a conversation, I will totally be your BFF.
If your child is not interested in
facts and non-fiction, there are plenty
of fiction
books based in
particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding
of history than many text -
books.
The
book is helpful because it provides a practical way to take advantage
of an often neglected nutritional
fact, namely, «that the metabolic action
of a
particular nutrient is highly dependent on when it is consumed.»
I've read all
of Agatha Christie's canon multiple times, delighting in the
fact that since I can never remember what happens in any
particular book, I can enjoy her work ad infinitum.
Guerilla Marketing Weapons, in
particular, will be a hugely valuable read for authors out there who have clued into the
fact that endlessly tweeting about your latest Kindle Free day may not be the surest path to selling lots
of books.
The
fact that none
of them want to publish a
particular book is not proof that they are conspiring against the
book's author, however frustrated the author may be by the experience.]
The publisher went on a PR speaking tour
of libraries and schools to hype the
fact this
particular version
of the
book is acceptable to be sold.
In
fact, I'm thinking
of one author in
particular who has sold over 4 million
books and has made the NYT's best seller's list.
In
fact, authors can often get help better suited to their
particular book through hiring freelancers than they'd be able to at a publishing house; they have a much larger pool
of potential hirees to chose from.
Fixed - layout
books and their
particular quirks, and the lack
of a general standard to create them, is just one
of the issues publishers have to tackle these days, and it is exacerbated by the
fact that even within the Kindle line
of products, it is not possible to really create specialized builds for each platform.
In
fact, one thread has a listing
of different artists that that
particular self pubber used for her
books - & heard about others from other writers.
The simple
fact is that the romance
of the printed
book outlives the demonstrable usefulness
of printed
books in any
particular discipline, and it dies very, very hard.
The value
of that
book is not in the story
of the beloved equine, but the
fact that this
particular book had been cherished by both my mother and my grandmother, and now it is entrusted to me.
The interesting
fact about this case is that the court held when there is space
booked for non-academic extra-curricular use, there is no implementation
of a
particular government policy or program.
It seems unlikely that employers would embark on a wholesale policy
of not recruiting smokers despite the
fact that if a
particular organisation had a high proportion
of smokers on its
books this could affect health insurance premiums.