Super entertaining Book of Mormon review. Refreshingly honest from a Mormon boy--good job.

inlägg gjort av DanaJean vid 9:03 pm (EST) Aug 9, 2008

I have made a sincere effort to read the book of mormon (got about a third of the way through), so I can authoritatively say that your review was at least 10x more readable and comprehensible than the original. Nice try, though. ;)

inlägg gjort av donutgirl vid 7:55 pm (EST) Jul 26, 2008

Just seen your review of the Book of Mormon, which I've only dipped in to it very briefly. Quite apart from the general barminess of it all, what I could never understand was why J Smith chose to render text of the plates (if plates there ever were) into such poor sub-1611 AV prose. But at a much more basic level, why bother to construct the Book of Mormon at all? What purpose was it meant to serve?

inlägg gjort av kranf vid 7:34 am (EST) Jul 26, 2008

no uvula? Golly, that must make swallowing pretty difficult. Can I ask what happened to it?

inlägg gjort av tomcatMurr vid 8:26 pm (EST) Jul 24, 2008

Dude, you've been flagged 70 freaking times so far for that review (well on your way to surpassing 100 easily I'm betting, which btw, must be a lt.com record), so, in essence, your review is like The Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter of reviews. Congratulations! However, I'm not trying to lay no pressure trip man, but what on earth can you possibly create as a followup to BOM which won't be viewed as a commercial and/or critical dissappointment? Can lightning stike the same soul twice? Can you go Titanic, Thriller, or Rumours back-to-back? Your fans will just have to wait and see.

inlägg gjort av EnriqueFreeque vid 5:22 pm (EST) Jul 24, 2008

Feel free! All of the cubicle hamsters around "these here parts" use it so it may even be a public domain colloquialism. ^_-

inlägg gjort av Allama vid 4:14 pm (EST) Jul 24, 2008

Great review of the BoM!

and now a related commentary from the great prophets of 'South Park'...
"dumb dumb dumb du-dumb"

inlägg gjort av Enodia vid 10:17 pm (EST) Jul 23, 2008

Priceless Book of Mormon Review. I've just had a tonsillectomy, so if the sutures break after laughing so hard, my wrath will visit ye!!

inlägg gjort av tomcatMurr vid 10:06 pm (EST) Jul 23, 2008

Though I see that you have already received a great many positive comments regarding your review of the Book of Mormon, I am compelled to add my own. Allow me to simply say that I laughed hard enough for people to prairie-dog over their cubicle walls to see what was going on in my little corner of the office.

Thanks for the laugh!

inlägg gjort av Allama vid 1:35 pm (EST) Jul 21, 2008

OMG, I laughed until I fell out of my chair! Thank you, thank you for making my day.

inlägg gjort av celebrian vid 7:23 pm (EST) Jul 19, 2008

Thanks for the Book of Mormon review. I sense some hurting there. Is that true? I live close to Nauvoo, so see plenty of people coming here on a pilgrimage from afar. I can see no sense to the revelations. You stated everything so well. We share 130 books. I LIKE your library.

inlägg gjort av kerrlm vid 2:06 pm (EST) Jul 19, 2008

Hello, Thanks for the Book of Mormon review. I may give that one a miss then, not having perused of it before. Have you read 'Wild Bill Hickman'and the Mormon Frontier? I like your Library by the way.

Regards,

Stilestrider

inlägg gjort av Stilestrider vid 7:19 am (EST) Jul 18, 2008

BOM review....it gave me a good laugh. Many thanks Dude.

inlägg gjort av cayman vid 6:52 am (EST) Jul 18, 2008

My bosom burns--yea it must be true! I myself have read the self-same book and verily was appalled. Who would follow such a ridiculous prophet and his special glasses?

Many thanks.

inlägg gjort av jrak vid 6:16 am (EST) Jul 18, 2008

After re-reading your review (out loud to my ex-Mormon wife) I felt a burning in my bosom as to the truth of what I must now do, that is, add you to my interesting libraries. May you populate your own planet someday.

inlägg gjort av EnriqueFreeque vid 11:41 pm (EST) Jul 17, 2008

Fabulous review of the Book of Mormon. I needed that laugh, thank you so much!

inlägg gjort av valkylee vid 10:52 pm (EST) Jul 17, 2008

Loved your review of the Book of Mormon! I only read part of the Book of Mormon once, but it seemed to me as if someone who wasn't a very good writer tried to write the Bible. Very, very, very, very inferior to the Bible, and simply not credible by any standard. Martha Huntley
p.s. I notice we share 29 books or something like that, including a bunch of Robert B. Parker mysteries, and Under the Banner of Heaven.

inlägg gjort av MarthaHuntley vid 4:08 pm (EST) Jul 16, 2008

What a review! My sides hurt from laughing.

inlägg gjort av chanale vid 8:10 pm (EST) Jul 15, 2008

Your review of The BOM is the best parody review I've ever read. The Wittenberg Door is a quarterly magazine that would publish it, I'm almost positive, were you to submit it. Splendid satire! If there were a way to nominate it for an award here in lt.com, I would. Brilliant. You're lucky it's only the ultra nice Mormons you're spoofing. I dare you to spoof, say, The Koran. Go for it! I was one of Salman Rushdie's bodyguards way back when (see profile page logo), so I would make promise to protect you to if you like.

inlägg gjort av EnriqueFreeque vid 6:45 pm (EST) Jul 15, 2008

And it came to pass that I did read your review of the Book of Mormon and Yea verily I say that it was AWESOME.

inlägg gjort av jelkins55 vid 1:16 pm (EST) Jul 15, 2008

Dude, nice library! 307 in common! (So far, that is. Still uploading mine, although I haven't got too much further to go). I love all the leather-bounds.

inlägg gjort av SpacemanSpiff vid 8:55 pm (EST) Jul 1, 2008

I like your style Dude.

inlägg gjort av KidSisyphus vid 2:54 am (EST) Mar 22, 2008

I absolutely love looking through your books:) Only 120 in common so far. Of your entire catalog can you estimate how many of them you have read so far?

inlägg gjort av CarlaR vid 5:52 pm (EST) Jan 17, 2008

I put up photos of a lot of Easton Press books

inlägg gjort av SThurston vid 1:49 pm (EST) Nov 28, 2007

My apologies, then. I mistook you for someone else :)

inlägg gjort av Tellerian vid 10:37 pm (EST) Nov 13, 2007

Isn't there an extra "a" in your name? Isn't it supposed to be T.A.N.S.T.A.F.L. (T.A. Never Sticks To Anything For Long?) Or have I got the wrong person? If so, it would be a WILD coincidence. That's not a very common acronym.

inlägg gjort av Tellerian vid 9:32 pm (EST) Nov 12, 2007

It's nice to meet you! I look forward to exploring your books.

inlägg gjort av lisaunger vid 7:28 am (EST) Nov 12, 2007

Oh yes, tanstaafl! My dad raised me up on Heinlein. Like your collection--also collect Easton Press.

inlägg gjort av rocketcitymel vid 9:11 pm (EST) Apr 15, 2007

Are you Mormon by chance?

inlägg gjort av orchdork21 vid 3:20 pm (EST) Apr 12, 2007

246 in common...that's pretty sweet

inlägg gjort av jabbman42 vid 1:13 pm (EST) Mar 14, 2007

103 books in common, not too shabby. You're not quite my number one but that guy has 11,000 books so he's probably everyone's number 1! I had to look up you name and found it amusing that there's a fairly extensive wiki for it.

inlägg gjort av Drew_Blood vid 9:33 pm (EST) Feb 14, 2007

Ah yes, makes sense.

I live in Arizona so I experience the same lack of rainy weekends. :)

inlägg gjort av daturaviolet vid 5:10 pm (EST) Dec 9, 2006

...and we have 43 books in common. :)

inlägg gjort av daturaviolet vid 3:48 pm (EST) Dec 6, 2006

I see you've read much Dostoevsky.

inlägg gjort av daturaviolet vid 3:47 pm (EST) Dec 6, 2006

We seem to have many books in common and I dig your style, Dude. Hit me back, just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan (this is Stan).

inlägg gjort av madimiel vid 5:28 pm (EST) Dec 5, 2006

I never even knew this site existed until six days ago, but now "New Shit has come to light, man!"

Glad to see someone has a sense of humour in these dark days. We share some tastes. Glad to know ya!

inlägg gjort av gerrymcdonald vid 11:16 am (EST) Sep 29, 2006

Wow, we share all those books AND you're one with The Dude. I'm in love with you and I don't even know you!!

inlägg gjort av rebel1031 vid 10:23 am (EST) Sep 26, 2006

You should join the Easton Press Collectors group. there are only 5 of us now but we do have some good images of the covers. Also, most of our books are identified as easton press editions becuase they have been entered manually. Hope to see you there!

inlägg gjort av aschiavi vid 2:44 pm (EST) Sep 8, 2006

You have easton press books. Are you going to tag them as such or id them in any other way? I have a bunch of them and am not sure how to enter them because the have no ISBN.

inlägg gjort av aschiavi vid 7:00 pm (EST) Aug 28, 2006

I just joined the site today. I've only entered 60 books so far into my database, and we already have 21 books in common. So far we have 1/3 of my collection in common. I'll see where we're at when I loaded in a few hundred more.

cheers,
Chris

inlägg gjort av ChrisG vid 3:42 am (EST) Aug 16, 2006

Great collection! The Dude abides ;-)

inlägg gjort av xinelibrary vid 1:49 pm (EST) Jul 11, 2006

You had me at "seeking Queen". ;-)

inlägg gjort av saucie vid 12:57 am (EST) Jul 8, 2006

would I be disqualified if I elbowed my way to the front of the
wanna be Queen line?

inlägg gjort av saucie vid 7:13 pm (EST) Jul 4, 2006

My pitiful library is ashamed. And like my favorite person you enjoy the adventures of The Dude. You're neat.

inlägg gjort av patrickr vid 3:35 am (EST) Jul 4, 2006

I don't remember seeing used Overholsers at the Tucson bookstore I was buying from when I was in my Western accumulation stage. I never spent much money on Zane Grey books, but the Navy library in Japan had almost all of them, and I read them over and over (it was a large library space-wise, but its collection was hit-or-miss).

inlägg gjort av Linkmeister vid 2:11 pm (EST) Jul 1, 2006

Somebody else actually owns books by Cliff Farrell.

inlägg gjort av Linkmeister vid 7:55 pm (EST) Jun 30, 2006

tanstaafl!!! That's pretty much my dad's favorite acronym. I saw you on my list of users with common books, no shock Rand is there.

inlägg gjort av k8_not_kate vid 2:06 pm (EST) Jun 30, 2006

Curse those godless bears! Will no one bring religion to these heathens? No one f@cks with The Jesus.

inlägg gjort av squeakjones vid 9:01 am (EST) Jun 28, 2006

PS - but I like history, though often historical novels the easy option.

inlägg gjort av Sally-AnneLambert vid 3:52 am (EST) Jun 26, 2006

Hi dude,
We have 5 books in common, which makes you number one tied on my list... but that's pathetic compared to the number one on YOUR list has 544 or sth in common!!!! Well I'm in China so I couldn't remember all the ones I have in my original collection. Most of what we share are classics, which I read because I'm in China and not too many modern ones are available... just enough. My Dad read the whole of his local library when he was in Samoa, shelf by shelf.
Sally

inlägg gjort av Sally-AnneLambert vid 3:50 am (EST) Jun 26, 2006

Not only are you tops on my list, you're tops on my sister's list too!!! Fucking stalker!

inlägg gjort av TheBrewmeister vid 8:56 pm (EST) Jun 19, 2006

I love your collection! Beautiful.

inlägg gjort av rosethorne vid 12:43 pm (EST) Jun 18, 2006

A most excellent quote for your "about me" section!

inlägg gjort av sagespot vid 10:52 am (EST) Jun 15, 2006

Are you from the University of Chicago?

inlägg gjort av strangeknight vid 11:59 am (EST) Jun 13, 2006

Wow, what a collection.

inlägg gjort av TheBookLarva vid 10:46 am (EST) Jun 10, 2006

Oh look at that, I finish another book and now you shoot into the top spot.

inlägg gjort av TheBrewmeister vid 5:04 pm (EST) Jun 5, 2006

Your bookshelves are the coolest.

inlägg gjort av vidalia11 vid 12:51 pm (EST) Jun 4, 2006

Go to your profile and on the right you will see the list of people that you have in common listed by the number of matches.

inlägg gjort av LauraTho vid 12:21 am (EST) Jun 3, 2006

You are at the top of my list. If I noted correctly, you are new too. I love the format. You are now number one on my watch list. Pick some good books

inlägg gjort av LauraTho vid 3:00 pm (EST) Jun 1, 2006

You're number one! (On my list anyway of books in common, anyway.) And I like to think of it as us having the same great taste, thank you very much! :)

inlägg gjort av absinthebride vid 6:00 pm (EST) May 28, 2006

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch?

inlägg gjort av etrainer vid 5:49 pm (EST) May 28, 2006

I would vote on a few of the evolution books personally, but then again, you might like George more.

inlägg gjort av TheBrewmeister vid 3:21 pm (EST) May 28, 2006

Pity. A pool table (and a bar) would make that the Library of my dreams.

inlägg gjort av tartalom vid 1:28 pm (EST) May 28, 2006

Where's the pool table?

inlägg gjort av tartalom vid 1:02 pm (EST) May 28, 2006

Great library!

inlägg gjort av absinthebride vid 9:35 pm (EST) May 26, 2006

The Dude Abides

inlägg gjort av TheBrewmeister vid 4:13 pm (EST) May 26, 2006

Word up!

inlägg gjort av TheBrewmeister vid 1:19 am (EST) May 25, 2006