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Frank E. Peretti

Autor(a) de This Present Darkness

113+ Works 33,221 Membros 349 Críticas 62 Favorited

About the Author

Frank Peretti, is one of today's most popular fiction authors. As a novelist, his passion is to both write stories that keep people turning the pages late into the night -- and to give them something a little deeper to think about long after the last page has been read. He and his wife Barbara live mostrar mais in the Pacific Northwest mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Frank E. Peretti

This Present Darkness (1986) 4,545 exemplares
Piercing The Darkness (1989) 3,254 exemplares
The Oath (1995) 2,740 exemplares
House (2006) 2,276 exemplares
The Visitation (1999) 2,263 exemplares
Prophet (1992) 2,216 exemplares
Monster (2005) 1,940 exemplares
The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) 1,527 exemplares
Escape from the Island of Aquarius (1986) 1,332 exemplares
The Tombs of Anak (1987) 1,281 exemplares
Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea (1988) 1,239 exemplares
Nightmare Academy (2002) 919 exemplares
The Secret of the Desert Stone (1996) 798 exemplares
The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey (1996) 780 exemplares
The Legend of Annie Murphy (1997) 712 exemplares
Tilly (1988) 653 exemplares
Flying Blind (1997) 633 exemplares
The Wounded Spirit (2000) 611 exemplares
Illusion (2012) 491 exemplares
No More Victims (2001) 74 exemplares
The Visitation / Monster (2003) 31 exemplares
An Elephant in My Backyard (2013) 17 exemplares
Tilly (2003) 3 exemplares
The Haunted (Harbingers #2) (2015) 3 exemplares
Tombs of Anak (1987) 3 exemplares
Wild & Wacky Sampler Ii (2001) 2 exemplares
Střetnutí (1992) 2 exemplares
I dette mørke 1 (2010) 2 exemplares
I dette mørke 2 (2010) 2 exemplares
Ud af mørket / Bind 1 (1990) 2 exemplares
THE GREAT STORYTELLER 2 exemplares
Poraněné srdce 1 exemplar
Ud af mørket 1 1 exemplar
Anakiternes gravhuler (2009) 1 exemplar
Ud af mørket 2 1 exemplar
Profeten del 2: Sannheten (1992) 1 exemplar
Wild & Wacky Collection 2 CD (2002) 1 exemplar
Tully 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV) (2001)algumas edições4,676 exemplares
Frank Peretti's Hangman's Curse {video} (2004) — Autor — 42 exemplares
The Color of God (2022) — Prefácio — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Peretti, Frank Edward
Data de nascimento
1951-01-13
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Canada
Local de nascimento
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Locais de residência
Idaho, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Educação
University of California, Los Angeles
Ocupações
author

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Children's adventure series em Name that Book (Fevereiro 2012)

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WBCLIB | 7 outras críticas | Feb 9, 2024 |
I’m a long-time fan of Frank Peretti so picked this up when I happened across it on Amazon. Unfortunately I found it very difficult to make sense of. It looks like this is a series that needs to be read in order.
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Kindleifier | Feb 5, 2024 |
This was a good story that is definitely showing its age; but that's the problem nowadays with writing about technology---things become outdated fast. Written in 1992 and full of lots of "technical terms", this one was a very slow starter for me. However, the mood the author is trying to create by describing the fast-paced atmosphere of a newsroom/studio is an important theme that I realized once I got into the story a little bit.

This isn't my favorite Peretti work, for sure, but it was still fun to read and be reminded of all the "vintage stuff". The description of the email mailbox icon, what it means, how it doesn't mean one has actual, physical, paper mail, etc. cracked me right up, but I didn't really embrace email myself until about 2003 so I guess this would have been uncommon knowledge a decade earlier. In this story, "email" wasn't even a term yet and the mail system was only the local computers within the news agency.

The entire storyline of this book would fall apart if it were written as is with today's laws in place. Most of everyone's arguments and evidence were based on access to medical records, doctors who shared lots and lots of personal info on their patients, and a public that would be outraged at the idea that abortion could actually kill the mother too. In short, there were no HIPAA laws in 1992.

Other elements that seem crazy but were really a thing in those days are things like recording people's phone calls without permission, schools giving out dorm room phone numbers, buying phone cards to make a long distance call (that was SOO techy!!!), use of the word "retarded" as a joke. I do remember these things but being so far away from that time, it made the story seem contrived and weird. It did have a good ending, even if it was a little too 1990s-Christian-Fictiony.

One thing I came away with: I definitely want to be "a prophet who can't help but speak."
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classyhomemaker | 16 outras críticas | Dec 11, 2023 |
This is probably the third time I've read this---maybe fourth. Every other time I imagined some ministry person/pastor that I knew in the role of the main character. This time around, that main character was me. Some of the scenes, actually, were emotionally painful. The church has caused a lot of hurt with their pharisaical ways and there are lots of us who love Jesus but despise the modern church model.

Since coming to Torah I've realized that there is only one authority---Christ. I love the quote on pg. 475 that says, "it's only when you're willing to know him on his terms, for who he is, that you really start to know him at all." God wants us to know Him in His way. That is through His entire Word but especially through Torah where He reveals His covenants and our instructions. If we wonder why the church is falling away---it's because they have abandoned the very foundation for everything---God's Torah.… (mais)
 
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classyhomemaker | 19 outras críticas | Dec 11, 2023 |

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Obras
113
Also by
3
Membros
33,221
Popularidade
#579
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
349
ISBN
509
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
62

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