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The Robe
By:Lloyd C. Douglas
Published on 2012-05-17 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption.

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Do not you kind of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were evenly plainspoken, simply utilitarian, unpretentious, and -- above all else -- boring, dull, boring? Don't you sort of hate when people claim'do not you believe this way or feel like that'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically into agreeing together? In what of ABBA: I do, I do, I do(, I really do, I do). Effectively, since the interwebs is a earth by which the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we can review days gone by in their inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at least until this website ultimately tanks. Consider (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I have bound it with much string and pulled it here for your perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are recommended in these reviews.) its actually complicated and silly! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that book is great! There you have it. Refreshingly, not really a review written in among the witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal shout unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of exactly the same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies that he designs problems... that will be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it was supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. On top of that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None folks had browse the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. This compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to see a play you then have sinned and will hell, in the event that you believe in hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I am also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to expect others tokowtow on your petty linguistic rules. Inspired appearance can totally free alone irrespective of how you try for you to shackle it. 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I like both you and your in vain holding at similes that will cannot solution this bilious hatred in the heart. You might be quarry, and We are yours. Figuratively conversing, associated with course. And after this this is this critique: Macbeth by simply William Shakespeare is a good fictional operate in the English language terminology, plus anybody who disagrees can be an asshole and a dumbhead.