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Paige (428 KP) created a poll

Jul 28, 2017 (Updated Jul 28, 2017)  
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Best/darkest dark comedy* I like them pitch black.

*But NOT horror comedy


American Beauty
Happiness
Jawbreaker
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Harold and Maude
Delicatessen
I Heart Huckabees

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American Psycho
Adaptation.

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The Graduate
Heathers
The House of Yes
Clerks
Fight Club
Brazil

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Very Bad Things
Art School Confidential

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Lars and the Real Girl
In Bruges
World's Best Dad

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Trainspotting
something else (and let me know, because I dig 'em)

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Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

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Well, that was something ... different.

This, essentially, is a scholarly thesis on the use of wargaming in an educational setting - like another reader, I found the first part (about the theory) interesting, the second part - containing example games - less so (perhaps because of my lack of real interest in anything beyond WW1 in the air).

Like being forced to study Shakespeare in school, I found this to somewhat suck the fun out of the activity in question.

Still, YMMV, as the saying goes ...
  
A Love to Behold
A Love to Behold
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Two years after the Civil War, Lydia Albright, 27, is an established teacher in Boston when she senses God’s call to leave the comfort and security of her job and go south. She accepts a position to teach in a school for former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. A church there that’s affiliated with the American Missionary Association offers support, along with room and board at the parsonage. The Ku Klux men are hell-bent on seeing that the new school fails. Lydia’s life is threatened, and the parsonage, church, and school are vandalized. But they haven’t contended with a strong, determined woman like Lydia before. It also helps that she has a couple potential suitors on her side. A Love to Behold is a tale of people who grow strong in the face of adversity and a church that learns love, compassion, and acceptance, even in the face of just cruelty and hatred.



My Thoughts: This is more than just a charming romance novel. It is the story of a young woman determined to answer God's calling on her life and nothing will stop her from doing so.


This is also a novel teaching us to love one another no matter what our differences may be. This is a story about compassion, determination, acceptance and overcoming affliction hen it is presented to us. It's holding on through the storm.


I really truly enjoyed this novel. The characters were all amazing, both the main and the supporting characters all worked well together. The storyline was fast-paced; there are no slow spots in this book.


This book comes highly recommended.