Lee Hunts

The Tower of Babylon So far, I'm kind of in the middle. I might be disappointed with the first two stories for different reasons, but there were also aspects that I enjoyed. I think I might be able to appreciate idea stories if they are short stories. I know I have read idea stories that were novels or novellas, and at the time, they just annoyed me. I would rather have an essay just share the ideas, you know? But I didn't mind that as much, this time around, idk. The prose in the first one was a problem. It was very workman-like, lacking in the flourish that makes narratives so compelling. I could get used to it, but that doesn't fix things. I think I liked the first one more. It didn't really go the way I was expecting—I thought the vault would just be an illusion, meaning they would have to keep building—but the ending worked in a different way. I saw readers trying to rationalize the logic of the world that was "revealed" at the end, but I got the impressi...

I just finished reading BoneMan's Daughters, by Ted Dekker. Dekker is a Christian author who writes suspenseful thrillers. I read a few of his other works when I was growing up, though I don't entirely remember all of them. Dekker always had the reputation of being a weird and disturbing writer, someone who was always controversial within the Christian community. That, of course, was why I liked him as a kid; he was one of the "cool" authors. So, I was interested to revisit him and consider the work from my more recent perspective. Summary (No Spoilers) BoneMan's Daughters is a book about a failed father who has become estranged from his wife and his daughter. This is because of a long past of neglect, after putting his career as an intelligence officer before his family. But, his attitude changes, and he wants to fix things. Juxtaposed with this is the BoneMan, a serial killer about to be released, who sees himself as a perfect father and ...