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06-03-2008, 05:39 AM | #1 |
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Finally picked up a copy of Under The Banner of Heaven in the SLC airport
on my way back home. About 1/3 of the way through it. He does a "great" job of interweaving mainstream LDS with fundies to make it sound one and the same.
Jerkwad.
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06-03-2008, 07:44 PM | #2 |
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I don't know. Coming from someone with no dog in the fight I didn't come away with the idea that you all were busy marrying and bedding multiple underage girls.
I like Krakauer, he lets the facts do the talking without a lot of editorializing on his part.
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06-03-2008, 07:46 PM | #3 |
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yeah, krakauer is an impartial dispassionate neutral observer.
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06-03-2008, 07:48 PM | #4 |
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To reiterate, I've no dog in the fight and it seemed pretty even handed to me. Is it possible that your own biases are coloring your opinion of Mr. Krakauer and his work?
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06-03-2008, 07:48 PM | #5 |
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We can't all be as impartial as you are, Mike.
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07-20-2011, 10:04 PM | #6 |
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As landpoke stated he creates the allusion he is relying simply upon facts, when what he presents are skewed versions of facts. Here are some valid critiques of Kraphead's work. http://bjornisageek.blogspot.com/200...en-review.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/bo...ll.html?src=pm http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/...erOfHeaven.htm
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07-21-2011, 01:31 AM | #8 |
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shit book about to be shit movie.
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07-21-2011, 02:41 AM | #9 |
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It will be carefully designed to malign the Church and any LDS presidential candidates.
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07-21-2011, 09:10 PM | #10 |
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Well, I don't know how accurate his account of Into the Wild was, but I did enjoy the movie. If one of my sons ran away like that I would be so incredibly heartbroken. It was a selfish dumbass thing to do to people who love you.
Opie Taylor has made a few good movies. I will at least have to check this one out once it gets to Netflix.
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