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Greg Garrett

American writer and preacher; Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture at Baylor University; author of books on faith, politics, race and narrative, and of novels; canon theologian at the American Cathedral in Paris.

4 books on the record · 30 Oct 2017 – 30 Oct 2017

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

But the interesting thing about I Am Legend is that it is an apocalyptic survival story.

on fivebooks.com · 30 Oct 2017 · Report

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I noticed that my book Living with the Living Dead was reviewed on a zombie studies site the other day, and they were somewhat indignant that I included The Road on the grounds that there are no zombies in this book.

on fivebooks.com · 30 Oct 2017 · Report

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World War Z by Max Brooks

One of the reasons I chose World War Z is that it is a novel that bridges the gap between pulp and high literature.

on fivebooks.com · 30 Oct 2017 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.