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The Handmaid's Tale - Book Review
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The Handmaid’s Tale Part 5 | By Ron Murdock

Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 1 Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 2 Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 3 Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 3 Part 5 Of The Handmaid’s Tale Part 5 of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ book review by Ron Murdock opens with the Commander’s wife finding lipstick on one of Offred’s garments. She connected the …
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The Handmaid's Tale Part 4
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The Handmaid’s Tale Part 4 | By Ron Murdock

Once a month a bell would ring summoning the entire household into the sitting room. The two aunts, Offred, the driver of the Commanders car and wife would join together in the room. Then they would take their proper seats. Protocol mixed in with petty power trips was part of the process.
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The Handmaid's Tale - Book Review
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The Handmaid’s Tale Part 2 | By Ron Murdock

Read the Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 1 The Handmaid’s Tale Part 2. Some things changed when Gilead replaced the USA. Every one kept to the social ranking assigned to them, and a dress code was given to them. It sounded as if money no longer existed, but the black market seemed to thrive. Like many societies prior to …
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Some Books Are Quite Prophetic Feature
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Some Books Are Quite Prophetic | By Ron Murdock

There are a number of books in the marketplace that are quite accurate on what the authors saw coming. While they weren’t 100% right they were close enough calls to be eerily similar to what is happening in today’s world. Most of these books started off a fiction, some are turning into non-fiction. It’s like those behind the scenes are …
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George Orwell 1984 Book Review Part 5
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1984 By George Orwell Part 5 | By Ron Murdock

It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. – Marcus Aurelius We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking those ideas to ourselves away to somebody else, to something else. – Terence McKenna Book Review: 1984 by George Orwell Part 1 Book Review: …
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George Orwell 1984 Book Review Part 4
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1984 By George Orwell Part 4 | By Ron Murdock

A good question to ask is why The Inner Party went to all the trouble to torture those they considered thought criminals. There was only one reason, to maintain power over people.
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George Orwell 1984 Book Review Part 3
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1984 By George Orwell Part 3 | By Ron Murdock

Much like high ranking officials today, The Inner Party regarded the proles as naturally inferior. It doesn't take much effort to keep most people...
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George Orwell 1984 Book Review Part 2
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1984 by George Orwell Part 2 By Ron Murdock

It was written in 1984 that 'who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.' The individual memory will always be...
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Critique of Fahrenheit 451 Part 2 | By Ron Murdock

The book Fahrenheit 451 had its graphic moments. Fun parks were built so people could bully others. Not exactly the best way to build up community or release anger. Police would put adhesive tape on a book criminal’s mouth to shut it before hauling them off in a beetle car. Firemen didn’t want to hurt anyone, just hurt things. One …
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Critique of Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 | By Ron Murdock

Ray Bradbury wrote one of the best masterpieces called Fahrenheit 451, which also could be classified as a daytime horror. It’s one of the genres of books that includes The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, A Brave New World, The Long Walk, and a short story called The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. None of the stories should be considered a ‘how-to’ book …
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By The Way... Essays and Atavisms By Dereck C. Sale Book Cover Feature
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By The Way… Essays And Atavisms | By Dereck C. Sale

By The Way… Essays And Atavisms I recently found myself lost in a book I received called “By the Way… Essays and Atavisms” by Dereck C. Sale. Not lost in the sense of bewilderment, but as in ‘immersed’. My fascination was twofold; first, was the realization that at any given time and at any given location anywhere in the world, …
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Lottery By Shirley Jackson | Hand With Rocks
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The Lottery | The Dark Side Of Human Nature

By Ron Murdock The Lottery The Lottery was a short story written by Shirley Jackson some years ago. It shows what happens when people don’t question the traditions they do and when it descends into a superstitious and meaningless ritual. After her story was published, many of the subscriptions to the magazine The Lottery appeared in was cancelled and people …
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New Revelation By Neale Donald Walsch Feature
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The New Revelation | By Ron Murdock

By Ron Murdock I don’t think it’s about thinking one person can do everything. It’s about training people to be exposed to new ways of thinking. – Alan Guttmacher The above quote can be taken two ways. It can be taken as a way for people to be open minded to learn new things. But two words – training people …
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Rescue Thyself By Sylvanus Ayeni Book Review
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Rescue Thyself – Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within

Book Review Of Rescue Thyself – Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within Change Must Come From Within Rescue Thyself Rescue Thyself – Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within, by Dr. Sylvanus Adetokunboh Ayeni, is intentionally a racist piece of literature. By necessity. Rescue Thyself’s one of those rare books that slaps the reader in the face …
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Four Blood Moons: Something is About to Change
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Four Blood Moons | By Ron Murdock

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. – Carl Sagan After reading Four Blood Moons by John Hagee, I found it to be just another end of the world as we know it ‘prophecy’. There has been so many of these predictions that I no longer believe any of them will come true. Or, the information is so vague anything can be …
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