christianreader

I'm new to this community. Just discovered it. I have a tendency to find an author, see if they wrote anything else and then read everything they ever wrote. This Christmas break it was Rene Gutteridge.

Boo, Boo Hiss, Boo Hoo, and Boo Humbug - Loved this series. Light, fun characters. Basically what would happen if someone like Stephen King quite writing scary books and became a christian, especially if the whole town's economy depended on his books. 200-400 pgs

Occupational Hazard series ( Scoop, Snitch, and Skid) - not a fan. Boring, not funny. didn't really care what happened to the characters. 200-400 pgs

Ghost Writer - Decent read - editor finds a book manuscript on his desk, realizes to his horror its all about him and some dark things in his past he thought no one knew. Not really as suspenseful as it could have been. I really like creepy action books - this isn't one. More psychological drama. 396 pgs

I'm a huge Ted Dekker, Perretti fan. I like thrillers that keep you up late reading.

Green - by Dekker - I'm still not quite sure what I think of him making it the beginning and the end. I loved the series. He is good at taking the gospel and putting it another format so you see it in a different light. It's a series I could give my non christian friends and have some wild discussions about.

Anne Rice recently declared her Christianity to the world.

Called Out of Darkness - Anne Rice - Not at all what I expected. I read one or two of her vampire novels in my twenties and thought they were very sexually perverse and avoided them ever after. Called out of Darkness is her attempt at her testimony and I think to explain to her Vampire fans why her writing had so radically changed.

My biggest surprise reads of the year were definitely Anne Rice's Christ the Lord Series: Out of Egypt and The Road to Cana - These books are her idea of what Christs life might have been like after the nativity and before his ministry began. It was very interesting and quite unsettling. I'm still thinking through some of her ideas. A unique perspective in the very least. She is a good writer.