Latest in the Virgil Flowers series. This time there are shenanigans and murder in
Wheatfield, Minnesota surrounding visitations from the Virgin Mary who looks
suspiciously like one of the town’s women. Like the other books in the series,
the banter among the cops and the idiosyncratic townspeople are the most
enjoyable elements. Even the sub plots weren’t so bad. But Sandford took so
long with the police procedural that it got a little tedious. All-in-all an
enjoyable, very well written distraction.
Disturbing and infuriating history of the concerted
Christian efforts to destroy “pagan” culture and thought as Christianity became
the dominate ideology between the first and fifth centuries of the Christian
era. Nixey’s attempts to make it a popular, almost entertaining, history weaken
it, and the organization was a little chaotic, but the information that does come
through is very important, and works to undermine the Christian propaganda about
that period. Very informative and useful history.
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