Geisler, Turek and Brown

There isn't a time that I'm not trying to read a book, or more at the same time, with the only exception the time that I'm freakin' ill. I love reading a book in as litle time that I'm able to, and love to read about the time that others have, spend, had or want to have. So that's about everything.


Last summer I was seriously freakin' ill. I got sick of it after two weeks, went to the physician, and he told me my immune system was recovering from a pneumonia-in-the-making. In the Netherlands that means: no medicine, because my body did a good job. Thanx. The following two weeks all the more or less empty spaces in my body filled up with infections, just enough to keep my temperature nice and warm. Hey, the good thing is: my immune system is back in business! so I will be as healthy as a horse the coming years.... The freakin' bad thing was: I couldn't even read!


So: I had to keep up after that. And that's now!

I couldn't resist: after all the fuss about it, the resistance of my dear husband to buy it and with that raise the selling numbers, and after I tried to read it during our YwaM DTS outreach in Fort McMurray, I finally red the Da Vinci Code 'till the end in two days.

After that I resumed the book of Norman Geisler and Frank Turek: "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist". Not as an antidote, it's one of the books I was reading before the summer. But it felt like a breath of fresh air in my world of science. Some of my other books in reading progress are the books "Evolution: a theory in crisis", from Michael Denton, and "Ecclesiology" from Veli-Matti Karkkainen. Those are a little more tough to read. Geisler and Turek make science even more fun. Just like Lee Strobel in his book "The Case for Christ", and more of his 'case' books; they write as if they are standing in front of you, telling you the stuff, and showing slides. You go for a little pause to get yourself a coffee, and happily go on with the lecture. To learn and remember.

Within this context I read The Da Vinci Code. I had my science- button 'on', so I loved the facts and science Dan Brown weaves into his book, but of course stumbled in his brilliant pits with non-science presented as science, and beliefs presented as science, and science presented as faith, larded with lots of legends and history: I had my pencil already in my hand to put the answers, other and real facts next to the text (as I do with my study books). Just in time I remembered the fact that I borrowed the book from my dear friend (so no writing!). After a big breath, I remembered the facts Brown noted on the first page of this book, and the reality of the book: it's a good-guys-bad-guys novel. I love that suspense. He almost got me. Every ten-some pages. I did read all his other suspence-novels these last weeks, and loved it, although I thought The Da Vinci Code was his best. Maybe I got used to his style.


Now I'm into studybooks again. I have to say: that suits me better. It's more freeing my grey cells and leads me more into connecting with the subject, maybe just because it is all about the real thing... ?!