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Started this as the audio book while on vacation. Should have started it sooner and listened longer during our drives, the story is very good thus far. There are a few clips that highlight the 'passion' of George (not graphic) during his young adulthood, so perhaps NOT the best biography for the younger crowd who might be ready for the vocabulary and bulk of the book.

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul" (Wolfgang von Goethe) We can hope to become whole, undivided people before God, to participate in God's joys and grow in them, and to share joys with others. A REDEMPTIVE THEOLOGY OF ART, CH1

I FINALLY got the audio book to download so I'm not tied to wifi anymore.... great storyline, but it was challenging to not have it for on the go. NOW I can take it to the gym with me!

Everyone is caught in a circle of violence - make up of 4 methods:
1) Intimidation
2) Corruption
3) Hypnotizing the people
4) Selecting people 'captured' by above 3 methods & making them into a passive instrument for carrying out cruelties and brutalities needed by the government.

Once the circle is complete can't be broken by force

Kingdom of God is Within You - Tolstoy - IN 1894!!! Sounds a LOT like today.

Rreference:
12 more Essential Christian novels:
A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Hannah Coulter (Wendell Berry)
I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Margaret Craven)
Jane Eyre (C Bronte)
Silence (Shusaku Endo)
The Gathering (Anne Enright)
The Princess and the Goblin (G MacDonald)
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (A. Bronte)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Rreference:
12 Essential Christian novels:
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Jayber Crow (Wendell Berry)
The Talisman (Sir Walter Scott)
Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
The Violent Bear It Away (Flannary O'Connor)
The Thanatos Syndrome (Walker Percy)
Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)