Sourpuss Stamp
Take & Read Bad Books
For those exceptional bad books
that should be burned...
The Sour Puss
Stamp is a big “raspberry” against books that I think are
bad or I disliked. Yes, that is all – I just did not like the book for a
number of reasons so I give it my “raspberry” stamp.
Please understand that this is solely my opinion.
Maybe you thought the book was great.
If that is the case write
me back, and if you write a good “re-critique” then I will
publish it on my site under my bad critique.
Or if you agreed with me,
I
would love to hear why. Remember,
some people may think more highly of a book that I deemed bad, or
thought a book I thought was good they might think it was bad.
But I am not trying to play relativistic games here.
I am grading books on their content, Scriptural reliability, and
truthfulness. I am not
grading books on the artwork of their dust-jacket, or the number of
pages, or the like. Some
books are just bad books. And
someone needs to say something about them!
What
makes me qualified to judge anther man’s work?
I believe that after a person has read over the 1,000,000 page
mark that they may be able to have a say on what they believe is good or
bad in the book industry, and have some weight placed upon that
critique. In puritan
literature alone I have read over 1,000,000 pages.
Combine that with the rest of theology, biography, etc, and I
have easily traversed the chasm! I have read good books, very good books, outstanding books,
and horribly bad books. My
desire to push people to read what is good so that they do not waste
their time reading things of no profit.
I really do not enjoy it when people waste my time.
Time is too precious and the Lord says we are to “redeem the
time since the days are evil.” Your
time should not be wasted reading bad books.
They take time to read and ponder.
Read good books! Hopefully
the Sour Puss Stamp will help you wade through the junk
and find treasures in other places.
The Black List: (more
to come)
Eternal
Covenant
by Ralph Smith
Rebuttal to my Critique by
Smith and My Response
God's
Everlasting Covenant of Grace
by Herman Hanko
"Reformed"
is Not Enough
by Douglas Wilson
The
Baptism of Disciples Alone
by Fred Malone
Shattering
the Left Behind Delusion
by John Noe
The
Prayer of Jabez
by Bruce Wilkinson
Hyper-Calvinism
and the Call of the Gospel
by David Engelsma
The
Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding
of God
by Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders,
William Hasker, David Basinger |
