Leaning on a Spider's Web

by Jennifer Rees Larcombe

Eddie Hunter has discovered that he loves building. Creating things with his own hands satisfies him. Fortunately his job in the game Light Online allows for that. It also requires that he do all the other things the rest of the players in the game do, so he can't just build.

Balancing his time between adventuring and building would be easy, if it didn't seem like there were always twenty-seven more things he felt he should be doing at the same time.

To make matters worse, there's good evidence supporting a fellow player's theory that Eddie's efforts to increase the settlement level of the Meadowlands cause the game to add new content in the area. So now Eddie has even more things to add to what he's already doing.

Genres: Fiction, Christian

608 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

From Google Books:

Jennifer Rees Larcombe - daughter of world-famous preacher Tom Rees https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... [and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... ] and brought up in the grand surroundings of Hildenborough Hall, one of Britain's influential Christian conference centres - has long lived in the public eye. She made national headlines when miraculously healed from encephalitis, has since written many best-selling books and now runs Beauty From Ashes a retreat centre for broken lives. She is still much in demand as a speaker to Christian groups and continues to touch lives through publication of her daily Bible reading notes.

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Reviews

[Ben Jeapes · Rating 5 out of 5]

The kind of book that will just lurk at the back of your mind once you've finished it, seeping in to your general awareness, and every now and then firing off an insight into your active consciousness. Over the course of a year, members of a community in a terraced road in a fictional south England town come to realise - or at least begin to - what elements of their lives are going to support them, and what are as reliable as ... well, spider's web. To mix metaphors, as Adrian Plass says in the introduction, many Christian novels drive a pentechnicon of personal faith through the small traffic of other people's lives, and that doesn't work. This however does. It slides other small cars into the general flow and takes you with it.

[Beth Dettman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a second time reading this for me. I read this many years ago, but the story stuck with me. It took me a few weeks to remember the name so I could find it! This is a realistic Christian story about several people who live on one street in England. I really liked the characters and found myself pretty involved. I really liked the arc of the main character. The scene in the church is the best.

[Maria Elmvang · Rating 5 out of 5]

I reread this book on a very regular basis as a teen, but somehow haven't read it in ages, so I figured it was about time. Fortunately it completely lived up to my expectations and I enjoyed diving back into it again after so long.

It is not a book I'd recommend to a non-christian, as it does get somewhat preachy at times. Not enough to bug me, but enough that certain scenes might seem over-the-top.

[Esther · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a young adult Christian, I really enjoyed reading this book as it seemed just like a great novel. The theological value wasn't too outstanding, but I would still tell anyone else to give it a try. It was especially interesting being able to spot links with Tunbridge Wells, where I live and the town on which the novel is based. A good book.

[Trine · Rating 5 out of 5]

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