Tag: Speaker for the Dead

• Best Books I’ve Read in 2018

  

  Yes, my friends, it’s that time again. We’ve come once more to the end of a year and so comes forth another pointless list of the best books I read for the year. I hate to say it, but most of what I read in 2018 disappointed me in some way. I think this is…

  John Underdown

  December 29, 2018

  literature, Pointless Lists

  2018, audio, books, Chaim Potok, Charles Dickens, Charles Sheffield, Damaron’s Gun, Ender’s Game, Homer, Jack London, January, Kevin DeYoung, Larry Norman, life, lists, Orson Scott Card, Shirley Jackson, Speaker for the Dead, The Iliad, Wesley Ray

• Letting Truth Have Its Day in ‘Speaker for the Dead’

  

  Truth is a valued commodity these days. Everyone wants it. They want it from the news, from our leaders, from everyone we look up to. There is a great thirsting for truth in our time, but the problem is defining what’s true. Postmodernism decreed we should question everything; we have, and now the line between…

  John Underdown

  May 26, 2018

  literature

  books, death, Ender’s Game, Jesus, life, literature, Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, truth