House - Frank Peretti & Ted Dekker

Title: House Author: Ted Dekker & Frank E. Peretti Genre: Christian fiction, suspense Rating: 5/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: July, 2007

Summary: "House" is an epic supernatural thriller that gives a new meaning to the phrase "haunted house". In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods. They seek refuge in an old house that's been vacated for years, or so they think.

They soon discover that others are dwelling in the lower level of the house, and they don't take kindly to visitors. With danger present in the house, they try to leave, but the house won't let them. Worse, they soon realize the killer has purposely lured them to this house. As they huddle around an old fireplace, a tin can falls through the chimney. Scrawled on its side is a message from the killer: He claims to have killed God and now demands more dead bodies. The characters come to realize that the house, while real, mirrors their own heart and soul, and unless each can defeat the evil within, the evil in the house will surely claim them. House is a modern tale that will have readers searching their own spiritual pulse long after they reach the last page.

Review: Honstly? I was really disappointed by this one. It doesn't live up to the standards set by neither Ted Dekker nor Frank Peretti, but was more the sort of book I'd expect somebody like Stephen King or Dean Koontz to write. The symbolisms were more heavy-handed than even Narnia (don't get me wrong, I love that series, but subtle it is not). To give the book the benefit of doubt it may just be that it's not a book appropriate for audiobook format, and I might have thought differently if I'd read it myself instead.

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Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

Title: Three Men In A Boat: To Say Nothing Of The Dog Author: Jerome K. Jerome Genre: Classics Rating: 7/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: July, 2007

Summary: Imagine Bertie Wooster and two of his idiot friends out on a boat... with no Jeeves. That about describes "Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog," Jerome K. Jerome's enchanting comic novel about three young men (to say nothing of the dog) who discover the "joys" of roughing it.

The three men are George, Harris and the narrator, who are all massive hypochiandriacs -- they find that they have symptoms of every disease in existance (except housemaid's knee). To prop up their failing health, they decide to take a cruise down the Thames in a rented boat, camping and enjoying nature's bounty.

Along with Monty -- an angelic-looking, devilish terrier -- the three friends set off down the river. But they find that not everything is as easy as they expected. They get lost in hedge mazes, end up going downstream without a paddle, encounter monstrous cats and vicious swans, have picnics navigate locks, offend German professors, and generally get into every kind of trouble they possibly can...

Review: Absolutely hilarious! I love the dry wit of Jerome's writing, even if some of his tangents went just a bit too far out. It's the perfect book for reading aloud, and I wish I'd known it while I was still living at home, so I could've gotten dad to read it to us on one of our vacations.

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Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Title: Little House on the Prarie Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Genre: Classics Rating: 8/10 # pages: 222 Date read: July 2007, August 2012, December 2017, November 2024

Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict.


This is probably the 'Little House' book I enjoy the least. It's still charming, but it seems so hopeless. They come, they build a house, they leave. I know it's only a year 'wasted', but it must still have been very frustrating to be sent on like that.