Mr. T Holton

"Tim"
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Helpful votes received on reviews: 67% (62 of 93)
Location: Warwickshire, UK
In My Own Words:
I am an Engineer who likes reading books.

I have a theory that since the biggest single thing God has done is to send Jesus (not to condemn, but to lift us up) then He can't be the vindictive oaf that many think. Quite the reverse.

Sometimes I write long rambling book reviews to help me engage with the ideas. Other times a book irritates me so much I just need to vent. Often I don't write anyth… Read more

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Top Reviewer Ranking: 42,727 - Total Helpful Votes: 62 of 93
The Abolition of Man: Readings for Meditation and &hellip by C. S. Lewis
As several other reviewers have noted, this book starts with an excessively distracting rant about some mid-20th Century school textbook. And it seems to go on for ages, feeling unjust in its criticism of an inadvertent philosophical faux pas that the authors of this long-forgotten textbook have made.

But if you can only bare with it and keep going you realise that the vital point he is making is buried in the heart of the book, and actually the subliminal nature of reductionist and relativistic thinking is just the problem he is talking about. It was only about half way through the book that I realised what CS Lewis' message was and, more importantly, how pertinent it is to… Read more
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
"I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin."

This book is full of challenging truths - it isn't only a testimony. She knows God well, not in a soppy sentimental way, but in a powerful life-changing way of someone who didn't actually want to be converted. I was bowled-over by so much that she says that speaks directly into my life.

"How did the Lord heal me? The way that he always heals: the word of God got to be bigger inside me than I." This is something for all of us if we acknowledge our need to be healed. And that's pretty much where she starts her testimony - her recognition that life doesn't… Read more
Taunting the Dead by Mel Sherratt
Taunting the Dead by Mel Sherratt
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Stoke meets Chicago, 12 Aug 2012
This book is a fairly straightforward crime thriller remarkable for the fact that it is based in Stoke.

The characters are all pretty unpleasant and the plot is fairly guessable, but it is written reasonably well.