Here are 2 books that The Country Under Heaven fans have personally recommended if you like
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This plot is so odd, but it's quirky. Though it starts off in the mundane, it quickly branches off into the bizarre. The exploration of a certain kind of immortality along with its unique effects is fascinating to me. This book left me wanting more.
He can’t die… but they can still make him bleed.Hector Domini never asked for much. Just some peace, quiet, and a couple million pesos. But those things are hard to come by when you’re a young drug chemist, trying to make ends meet in the deserts of Mexico. When Hector discovers a mysterious fern with the power to grant immortality, his problems aren’t solved. They’re multiplied. Enter Cruz K. Flores, Mexico’s most powerful drug lord. He wants immortality, too- and he’ll do anything it takes to get it.Hector is forced to go on the run- not for his life, but…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I can count on one hand how many times I've read a "commentary" in book format, but I read it because the topic was interesting and I found Douglas Wilson's writing style to be imaginative. I grew up in a classic Christian environment where the book of Revelation was about the anti-christ, a boogyman character used to invoke fear and trembling in Christians and potential converts. The perspective in the book is actually about the revelation of Jesus as King, how he knows and loves his church, which is a positive perspective.
"Though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators." ~ G.K. Chesterton
The book of Revelation was written to do just that: reveal. But most commentaries nowadays either engage in bizarre speculations about the future, or they keep an embarrassed distance from all the apocalyptic events that the apostle John says will “shortly take place.”
In this commentary, Douglas Wilson provides a passage-by-passage walkthrough of the entire book, showing how John's most notorious prophecies concern the Fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Explaining symbols and…
