Ok, it's official. Bushman biog of Joseph Smith is the BOTB - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

creekster · 12-03-2007, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

Too bad this little tradition died so quickly.

I was looking forward to seeing what other books CG'ers could find to confirm their own opinions.

Did you read Bushman's book and find it lacking in some way?

SeattleUte · 12-03-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Did you read Bushman's book and find it lacking in some way?

Larry McMurtry wrote a pretty good reiew of it in the New York Review of Books.

Jeff Lebowski · 12-03-2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Larry McMurtry wrote a pretty good reiew of it in the New York Review of Books.

Nonsense. It was a poor review. I have a strong suspicion that he only skimmed it.

Sleeping in EQ · 12-03-2007, 06:57 PM

There are any number of books I'd love for us to discuss. I've been re-reading B.H. Roberts' Studies in the Book of Mormon....

SeattleUte · 12-03-2007, 07:03 PM

I didn't know Mullahs hated Bushman's book. They really do just want to hear the fables.

Jeff Lebowski · 12-03-2007, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

There are any number of books I'd love for us to discuss. I've been re-reading B.H. Roberts' Studies in the Book of Mormon....

Yes. We need to reinstate the BOTB. The problem seems to be getting a book that the majority can agree upon. We need someone to take this bull by the horns. Archaea and I nominated the Juanita Brooks MMM book, but I think I was the only one that read it. Maybe you can suggest a better pick.

Goatnapper'96 · 12-03-2007, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Yes. We need to reinstate the BOTB. The problem seems to be getting a book that the majority can agree upon. We need someone to take this bull by the horns. Archaea and I nominated the Juanita Brooks MMM book, but I think I was the only one that read it. Maybe you can suggest a better pick.

I think Juanita Brooks is one of the most impressive mormons. It amazes me that a rural believing mormon WOMAN had the fortitude to do what she did. Especially one who born in the early 1900s. Honestly amazing, IMO.

I liked her book.

MikeWaters · 04-18-2008, 08:54 PM

Ok, I need to finish RSR.

Indy Coug · 04-18-2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Ok, I need to finish RSR.

I did last night. I wonder what Thomas Sharp is up to these days?

UtahDan · 04-20-2008, 12:24 AM

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Ok, I need to finish RSR.

Me too. The truth is it is interesting but it is a slog. Not a page turner. I am working on In Sacred Loneliness and am breezing through it. Very very interesting.

12-03-2007, 06:57 PM	#4
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	There are any number of books I'd love for us to discuss. I've been re-reading B.H. Roberts' Studies in the Book of Mormon.... __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

12-03-2007, 07:03 PM	#5
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	I didn't know Mullahs hated Bushman's book. They really do just want to hear the fables. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

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MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Ok, I need to finish RSR.