Has anyone else ever read a book by the author Avi? I love his writing, his stand-alone books rising up amidst the sea of trilogies and outrageously long series.
The Avi books I've read so far are:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Midnight Magic
The Book Without Words
Is anyone else an Avi fan?
Anybody heard of Avi?
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Anybody heard of Avi?
You can find out things about the past that you never knew. And from what you've learned, you may see some things differently in the present. You're the one that changes. Not the past.
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- Brad Stine
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine
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the_wolfs_howl - Posts: 3273
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I've heard of him, but I've yet to read his books. He's certainly on the list of authors I should try sometime.
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I have read many of Avi's books and liked most of them. The Christmas Rat was a VERY strange book so I wouldn't recommend it. But the true confession of charlotte doyle is one of my favorite of Avi's books
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the only book i've read by avi, is Crispin. i thought it was okay, but it wasn't as good as i thought it would be.
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- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
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"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
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I have also read The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and although it is not my favorite books I really enjoyed it. The basic plot was not really all that original but the characters were fun and really got some nice depth built up to them.
I have also read Nothing But the Truth (I think he wrote that one) I really did not care for it when I read it and felt like I had wasted my time. But now that I'm older I look back and realize it was actually a clever satire on how stupid America is with how we get so fixated and stuck on something without even checking to see if it is accurrate. (The basic plot is a kid gets yelled at by his teacher when the class is listening to the pledge of Alligence. He claims innocence since he was saying the words along with the recording they were listening to. His parents and neighbors and local politicans turn it into a huge debate with the teacher. And well... I won't say anymore. XD
I have also read Nothing But the Truth (I think he wrote that one) I really did not care for it when I read it and felt like I had wasted my time. But now that I'm older I look back and realize it was actually a clever satire on how stupid America is with how we get so fixated and stuck on something without even checking to see if it is accurrate. (The basic plot is a kid gets yelled at by his teacher when the class is listening to the pledge of Alligence. He claims innocence since he was saying the words along with the recording they were listening to. His parents and neighbors and local politicans turn it into a huge debate with the teacher. And well... I won't say anymore. XD
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is one of my favorite books. What I like is how his books sometimes tie together. In The Man Who Was Poe, someone talks about a ship called the Seahawk, which is the name of the ship in the True Confessions of Charlottle Doyle. Two kids climb around the wreck of a ship that has the same description as the Seahawk in another one of his books--the name of which completely escapes me at the moment.
I read Nothing But the Truth a few months ago. I didn't like it until the last page. The last sentence, actually. In my opinion, the last sentence made the book.
So, yeah, I'm an Avi fan. (Although The Christmas Rat was a weird book.)
I read Nothing But the Truth a few months ago. I didn't like it until the last page. The last sentence, actually. In my opinion, the last sentence made the book.
So, yeah, I'm an Avi fan. (Although The Christmas Rat was a weird book.)
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Well, I was at the library today and remembered seeing this thread, so I picked up The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. I'll give it a try later.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Christmas Rat was really weird. I third that.
Midnight Magic was interesting and very dramatic. It's about a 15th-Century magician's assistant trying to rid a well known royal family's castle from ghosts. This book is very interesting but be forewarned it does contain a heavy amount of occult-ish themes, concepts, and images.
Midnight Magic was interesting and very dramatic. It's about a 15th-Century magician's assistant trying to rid a well known royal family's castle from ghosts. This book is very interesting but be forewarned it does contain a heavy amount of occult-ish themes, concepts, and images.
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Hmm. I'll have to check out this Christmas Rat everyone's talking about, to see what's so weird about it.
And Aileen Kailum, someone once said (I can't remember who it was) that every author wishes their first sentence to be read in light of the last sentence, and vice versa.
And Aileen Kailum, someone once said (I can't remember who it was) that every author wishes their first sentence to be read in light of the last sentence, and vice versa.
You can find out things about the past that you never knew. And from what you've learned, you may see some things differently in the present. You're the one that changes. Not the past.
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine
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I was straightening shelves at the library today before coming home and across from where I was working they had CRISPIN on dsiplay.
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