Reviews for Recreation Guide to California National Forests

The average rating for Recreation Guide to California National Forests based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-07 00:00:00 Larry Willy What a strange little book. While it ostensibly claims to be the first biography of Tyndale printed in America, it is leaden with dubious claims and tenuous conclusions. For starters, the book is authored by "A. Christian Pilgrim" and I'm immediately suspect of anything a person refuses to put their name upon. Anonymity is not always humility. Also askew is the strange practice of not capitalizing satan ("we choose not to acknowledge him")---except I found an instance where it was capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Guess grammar can't go totally out the window, huh? By the time I was two pages into the Prologue and already read the names Constantine and Gandhi, I knew I was in for a wild ride. What do either of those men have to do with English life in the 1500s? (Don't worry: Hitler gets name-dropped later on.) The next page says that governments can become "the instrument of Antichrist." So this is already reading like one of those shows on the History Channel that has one part history and nine parts crazy. While I appreciate any effort to showcase the genius of Tyndale, this book gets lost in the weeds. A "Secret Society" is running through these pages, suggesting that Tyndale was part of a Lollard-based group that communicated and worked together throughout his translation process. This seems like the stuff of daydreams, not reality. Further trouble comes by identifying John Colet as the "secret leader of the Lollards" (x), which doesn't ring true with any other account I've read. No evidence to back up that claim is presented here. Our anonymous author also asserts that Tyndale met Luther and the two "plotted the strategy necessary to have an effect on England" (42) even though there is no actual evidence of them meeting, much less conspiring together. Did these things happen? Possibly. Can we know? No, so don't write like they are undisputed facts. Omniscient biography is hard for anyone, much less a life like Tyndale's. I wish there were a hundred books on Tyndale out there for people of varying ages and skills to read. There aren't. The number is closer to a dozen. That said, I couldn't recommend this book to anyone. The scholarship is suspect, the tangents are numerous, the assumptions are egregious, and the tone is borderline arrogant.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-13 00:00:00 Fred Van Holst Must read! The teachings of the Word of God are for our healing. God wants us happy and healthy and Dr. George Malcumus In the book gives clear guidance and hope for the prevention and reversal of all the sickness we see today.