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SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Spectra Special Editions)

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Someone to watch

SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Spectra Special Editions)
Ian Mcdonald
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ASIN: 0553292390
Release Date: 1992-09-01

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Someone to watch.......2002-09-06

This is a collection of short stories from one of SFs brightest new hopes. I made notes after each individual story as I read it:

* "Gardenias" -- Fancifully written, but ultimately plotless. Interesting for the mix of poetry and prose, and the way the narrator speaks to the reader and character. Ultimately not my cup of tea, though.
* "Rainmaker Cometh" -- I believe I read this before somewhere (in The Year's Best Fantasy?). Nicely oblique tale of small-town desperation and the mysterious stranger. Well done, but we've seen it all before.
* "Listen" -- Okay, it's obvious that McDonald can write, and can write well and stylishly. But what about plot? What about a little less deus ex machina? What about a little more substance? This story is clearly indicative of my problems so far with McDonald: a lot of style, a lot of imagination, but nothing more on the ball.
* "Speaking in Tongues" -- I didn't follow this story at all. I suspect there was something that tied the parts together, but McDonald gave me no clear clues to find that something. Bleah.
* "Fragments on an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" -- Now this is a story worthy of recommendation. Excellent use of historical and fictional, the hysteria originally unfounded except when the story rolls around and we find out, no, it is merely foreboding. The grafted-on bit with the Wandering Jew could just as well been excised for all that it does (and only served to sell the story originally, to Brian Stableford's theme anthology Tales of the Wandering Jew). It is the rest that makes this story satisfying.
* "Approaching Perpendicular" -- Poetical story about the dreams and agonies of a poet, analogous to the struggles of any artist who braves the fears and sometimes oversteps the bounds in trying to be art. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Perfect prose-poetry, to be so ambiguous, yet allow interpretation.
* "Floating Dogs" -- Post holocaust story updated to today's foreseen technology, nanotech. As such, really nothing new said here.
* "Atomic Avenue" -- Nice idea, but seems overlong. Once again, the fine line between mood (poetry) versus information (prose) seems stretched too tightly to the mood side for a story.
* "Fronds" -- Well realized alien/human contact, with added development of Chinese/Japanese company rule mirrored in a Dr. Moreau-like Delphic (for dolphins) law. This kind of story has been done better, but not by many, and I found myself thoroughly enthralled by the world-building.
* "Winning" -- Well done tale of translating modern culture and mores and positing a prospective future. That is, science fiction. Not as clever as "Fragments," but very worthy.
* "Toward Kilimanjaro" -- Reminiscent of Shepard & Frazier's "mutant rainforest" stories, which are probably recalls of Brian Aldiss' Hothouse. There is a lot of Conrad symbolism here (which I can recognize, even though I've never read Conrad). What is it about Heart of Darkness that appeals so to the SF spirit? Interesting, but overlong to be so unoriginal in plot.

Overall, I enjoyed the McDonald collection, even though when I look back over my notes, I would only recommend half of the stories (and that to a dedicated reader of SF). He's got real style, though--a talent with words--that will prove to be useful in the future when his plots and ideas become more original than the recycled ones in these stories.

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Hidden Power of speaking in tongues
Amazing journey that changed my life into new and fresh style!
Truth Truth Truth...a clear voice in the desert
Informational, Inspirational, and Enlightening!

Hidden Power of Speaking in Tongues
Mahesh Chavda
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Almost 40 years ago John and Elizabeth Sherill introduced the world to the phenomenon of 'speaking in tongues' in their book, They Speak with Other Tongues. The book was an immediate success as thousands were touched by the power of this spiritual gift.

The Hidden Power of Speaking in Tongues again explores this spiritual experience powerfully prevalent in the early church. This much maligned and controversial gift was a practical part of their worship and intercession and seeks to be rediscovered in our day.

In a day of spiritual poverty, Chavda challenges the Body of Christ to experience afresh the secret dynamic of 'speaking in tongues', as he removes the veil covering this glorious gift.

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Hidden Power of speaking in tongues.......2007-03-19

I found this book to be very helpful,esspecialy the way each chapter was broken down to bite size chapters that were easy to understand,and the importance of praying in tongues,as well as praying in English(my native tongue)I recomend this book to all who are seeking a fresh impouring of HOLY SPIRIT and to those who have just become Christians and want to know more about God Jesus and Holy Spirit.

Amazing journey that changed my life into new and fresh style!.......2006-07-15

You see, this book's title is something careful many
churches and the body of Christ have been evading to give
crystal-clear answer that will satisfy our curiocity.

Despite the fact that I am a Christan who was to believe in
Jesus as soon as I came of of my mother's womb, there was some spiritual thirst that none of the ordinary methods in time-honored church's community could not quench at all.

From the time when I was even in elementary school,
I wished to meet Jesus personally not doctrinally.
The very burning desire I had in my deep spirit was kindled
by this life-changing book.

In a nutshell, this book is a life-chnaging book giving tremendous help and profound teaching and lesson to readers!

Actually, 'speaking in tongues' is something careful that many
Christians and even some pastors are reluctunt to mention
in their sermons.
Unfortunately, I was taught that 'speaking in tongues' was
none other than something special given to
those who don't have big and deep faith by the Holy Spirit who wants them to have conviction about their faith.

When I went to a Christianity bookstore, I found this book
titled .
My heart was throbbing at the time because I was not quite sure about whether buying it was what God wanted me to buy.

But at the time, I was rather sensitive about hearing the voice
of God and I received a spiritual impression telling me that
God was pleased with me who wanted to get it.

So I bought it and began to devour it day after day.

As soon as I had read some part in this book,
I was fascinated by this lovely book!
This book is full of gripping and interesting story.
Each of the stories are amazing and interesting enough to draw
your attention!

Furthermore,this book is not swayed toward unbiblical direction
at all.
Instead, this book will provide you with practical knowledge
and information that are totally biblical.

'Speaking in tongues is somethig careful to many Christians
and there are not so many books dealing with the topic.
But this book, 'The hidden power of speaking in tongues',
is really good and wholesome book giving biblical information
to readers, I guess.

Truth Truth Truth...a clear voice in the desert.......2004-07-17

Very clear answers if you are wondering if Speaking in tongues is still a manifastation of the Holy Spirit. Scriptually based and proof that if Jesus is still alive then speaking in tongues is still a tool for Christians in this hour. Brought breakthrough to my life. The chapter about Pauls life is amazing as well. Highly recommend this book!

Informational, Inspirational, and Enlightening!.......2003-08-09

I found this book in a search to better understand the power that comes with speaking in tongues. The writer gives lots of scripture throughout the book to support his views and also gives very powerful and compelling personal experiences for himself and others. It helped to strengthen my understanding and belief that this truly is a gift from God and one to be desired. It gives some direction in the use of tongues in your prayer life and explains the difference in the prophetic tongue and the prayer tongue. I think this book will become foundational for those who believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues or those who simply want to better understand it. I have already told others about this book and will keep it in my personal library.

Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

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An important, well-written book
A good guide to what debate's really about
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Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Gary Alan Fine
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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship.

Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.

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An important, well-written book.......2007-05-25

This is an outstanding book. Gary Alan Fine looks at high school policy debate from the point of view of an academic sociologist. The subtitle says that this book is about high school debate and the adolescent culture, but Fine does much more than deal with that: This is the only ethnographic research into the subculture of high school debaters that has ever been attempted.

Sounds deadly dull, doesn't it? Well, it's not. This is, in part, because Fine was a high school debater, and his son was a high-level, national circuit debater; thus, Fine has a feel for the human side of the activity. Further, he is one of those rare academic researchers who can weave the results of his research into a well-written narrative.

I coached high school debate for fifteen years. In my view, Fine captures what it really feels like to be part of an activity that is highly valued by adults but not at all understood by them. He relates the exhilaration of winning, the camaraderie of being part of a team, and the frustrations of working oneself to the brink of a breakdown doing something that not even one's parents or friends actually understand or care about.

But why should anyone not associated with high school debate care?

We are constantly told that education is in crisis and that US students don't do anything well-- except wear baseball caps backwards and listen to rap music. Obviously, that's an exaggeration, and most kids and schools are doing fine. But there is a whole subculture of high school kids-- the debaters-- who are doing better than "fine"; they're willing to spend literally hundreds of hours a year researching complex social and political issues and to subject themselves to the searing pressures of competitive public speaking as they advocate positions on those issues.

Understanding what makes those kids tick is important, if for no other reason than that a large fraction of lawyers and legislators are former debaters. These kids are literally going to be running the world some day.

So, Fine's study is important. It is also good reading, and, since it does not deal with debate theory at all, it's accessible to non-debaters. In fact, it might be most important for those who haven't had any contact with the world of debate to read it.

I highly recommend this sensitive, compelling book.

(My one and only complaint about this book is the picture on the cover. I have never, ever seen a debater look like that. Indeed, it looks like a kid trying to impersonate Hitler. Why did the production staff select that picture?)

A good guide to what debate's really about.......2002-07-12

Fine is a sociologist, and so you find out a lot here about the culture of debate. I found this right on target as both an old regional policy debater (similar to the Minnesota teams profiled in the book) and the parent of a national circuit policy debater (similar to the teams Fine's son participated in). Fine does a great job explaining the differences between these and the tension between them.
There's NO debate theory or how-to in this book -- but then those books don't really contain a consideration of the culture of debate, either.

ATTN: High School Policy Debaters and Coaches.......2002-04-05

I debated in the National Forensics League and the Urban Debate League for two years, and GIFTED TONGUES does a never-before-seen job in detailing the high school policy debate sub-culture. GIFTED TONGUES is the only book in the market that goes into the workings of several modern high school policy debate teams. Other books that claim to attempt to describe policy debate are out of date with the times.

GIFTED TONGUES might not have much insight into complex policy theory, but it's defintely worth your time if you're a novice HS debater OR a debate coach who wants advice to increase team membership, watch for pitfalls, and promote team morale.

Speaking in Tongues: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Studies in Pentecostal and Charismatic Issues)

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Speaking in Tongues: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Studies in Pentecostal and Charismatic Issues)

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Exellent suspense novel that will keep you up for nights reading till you finish
Taut Page Turner
Didn't speak to me
Great story with a ton of plot twists...
Tongue Tied

Speaking in Tongues
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Tate Collier, the flawed hero of best-selling author Jeffery Deaver's exciting new thriller, is a divorced prosecutor whose tangled feelings about his ex-wife and their teenage daughter come to the forefront when the girl is kidnapped by a murderous psychiatrist bent on settling a personal score with Collier. It soon becomes clear that Tate really doesn't have a clue about Megan's life or her emotional reality, but the reader gets a fuller explanation from the girl's own perspective, and it's Megan, rather than her father, who turns out to be the real hero of this story.

Deaver draws the reader into the angry, rebellious Megan's desperate fight to save her own life in the creepy surroundings of a decrepit insane asylum in the Virginia mountains. (Deaver practically writes blueprints for the inevitable Hollywood set designer who will have a field day bringing the shuttered, rat-infested scene of Megan's captivity to the screen.) The motivation for Dr. Aaron Matthews's vendetta against the Colliers isn't revealed until most of the way through this crisply paced novel, but he's convincingly insane enough for it not to matter. Deaver throws a few implausible scenarios the reader's way, but they won't matter either; the chase is the thing. The narrative steams along without letting up, and the result is a nail biter that will keep the pages turning. --Jane Adams

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Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man for revenge. With former trial lawyer Tate Collier as his target, the brilliant, ruthless Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance, which for Collier is his teenage daughter.

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The bestselling author of "The Devil's Teardrop" and "The Empty Chair" is back with a horrifying thrill ride. Attorney Tate Collier's past has come back to haunt him in the form of Aaron Matthews, a brilliant, Harvard-educated psychiatrist bent on vengeance of biblical proportions. When Collier's daughter disappears, he wants to believe it's teenage rebellion, but insidious signs soon involve the lawyer in a race against the clock to save her life.

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Exellent suspense novel that will keep you up for nights reading till you finish.......2006-08-01

I finished this book quick it was so good, I couldn't sleep, just kept reading it. This is my 1st novel by this auther. Since I am a Christian my wife saw this while we were in Catalina Island, and she said look "Spoeaking in Tongues" thinking it was a Christian novel, pero it was a suspense novel and it got me curious. Good book and not too much profanity, though any is too much.

Taut Page Turner.......2006-03-15

I love the way Jefrey Deaver constructs his psychological suspense thrillers. He weaves such a complex web with twists and turns that keep me glued to the book, afraid to turn the page to see what happens next, but also afraid not to turn the page.

This book features a vicious type of revenge toward attorney Tate Collier. His daughter, Megan, is kidnapped by a psychologist, Dr. Aron Matthews, who blames Tate for the death of his son years before. Tate and his ex-wife, Bett, are forced to team up and work together to try to rescue their daughter.

However, it is not their story that is particularly interesting, but rather the story of teen-age Megan Collier. Megan has definite psychological problems, but manages to work through and sometimes with her issues to thwart her kidnapper. Dr. Matthews hides her in a decrepit, unused insane asylum, but she manages to escape from the room in which she is held and, although she is unable to get out of the asylum, she finds plenty of places to hide and try to outwit her captor. She is the true hero of the book, and the narrative works best when it is focused on her.

Forget all the nonsense between Tate and Bett and their long scenes of exploring what went wrong in their relationship and how both of them have abrogated their duty as Megan's parents. That is unnecessary, boring filler that doesn't really add anything to the book. Skip those pages if you like and read the scenes with Megan. That's where the crux of the story is, and a very exciting story it is, too.

Didn't speak to me.......2005-11-14

Megan is a 17 year old rebel who finds herself discussing her less than adequate parents while at court ordered therapy. But this shrink is substituting for her regular doctor. What she soon realizes, is that he needs therapy of his own since he proceeds to drug and kidnap her. Enter her self centered parents. They soon realize that something is amiss and begin their new careers as self appointed detectives as they follow up on clues that seem to magically fall from the sky. But somehow the bad guy is always one step ahead of the good guys, thwarting them from their attempts to reclaim the daughter that they now realize they have overlooked and taken for granted.

The sarcasm in my above description, I think, pretty much sums up my feelings on this book. Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme books have always been page turners for me and I look forward to each one with great anticipation. But his non-Rhyme books are always a recipe for disaster. This plot is too contrived, the bad guy too capable of keeping the good guys off his trail, and the good parents completely unbelievable in the efforts they throw together to attempt to get their daughter back. Overall, the writing actually keeps the story going because it flows so well, but the story is sorely lacking.

Great story with a ton of plot twists..........2004-12-27

One of my favorite crime thriller authors is Jeffery Deaver, and I just recently had the chance to finish his book Speaking In Tongues. Great stuff...

Aaron Matthews, a former psychologist with a knack for talking people into things, is out to destroy the life of Tate Collier. Collier is a trial lawyer who prosecuted Matthew's son for a killing when he was a teen. A short time after the teen went into prison, he was brutally murdered. Matthews wants to take the life of Collier's teenage daughter in revenge. He does this by kidnapping the daughter after a counseling session and makes it look like a runaway. She's taken to an old abandoned mental hospital where Matthews plans on murdering her. Collier suspects that his daughter's disappearance is not what it seems, but everyone who can provide answers is either dying or being framed for other crimes. The story is a race to see if Collier can figure out who is doing all this, and to find his daughter before harm comes to her.

This is an excellent story with numerous plot twists and tight story-telling. The interaction between Collier, his ex-wife, and the daughter (who has numerous issues) provides all the necessary color to allow the characters to struggle with both family feelings and the on-going crime investigation. Definitely not a book that is easy to put down.

Tongue Tied.......2004-12-21

Deaver's skill at weaving a crafty and intriguing suspense story is sound. He has the bare bones of the work down to a science, and when it comes to most of his tales, the bones themselves are strong, hearty, and glistening white.

In this case, however, those bones have virtually no muscle.

This tale is about Tate Collier, his ex, Bett, and their kidnapped child, Megan. The villian for this tale, a slick-tongued psychiatrist named Aaron Matthews, is a man of such skill that he can talk virtually anyone into anything, a talent that rivals that of our protagonist, Tate, a lawyer who once wielded the same verbal weapons in the courtroom.

As I said, the story itself has some intriguing twists and turns, as all suspense tales should, and it offers up satisfying obstacles and the usual mysteries, but they fall flat for a number of reasons.

1. When the crux of your tale lies on creating characters of uncanny persuasive abilities, the heart of your novel must lie within the dialogue those characters utilize. In this case, neither Matthews or Collier ever speak convincingly enough, in my opinion, to warrant their being labelled as men who "speak in tongues." And although a lot of interpretation must be allowed for the written medium, it still doesn't seem like Matthews' talent for conniving others is as plausible as the novel would like it to be.

2. The book falls prey to a pretty major pitfall for literature of this type, and that is over-elaborate explanations for key motives and behavoirs. We even get treated to a cliched moment of having the bad guy reveal his whole plot to the good guys before actually going through with the plot.

3. Implausibility. There are some areas of the book that are downright laughable, aside from the already mentioned superhuman talent at persuasiveness some of the characters possess.

4. My biggest pet peeve: Deaver cannot write dialogue for teenagers. In an attempt at creating authenticity, Deaver peppers their dialogue with an abundance of "like"s and "way lame"s so that they sound like rejects from some B-grade rip-off of a Dazed and Confused remake. I understand that kids still occasionally talk like this, but Deaver's use of these trite bits of characterization is so liberal it becomes intrusive and annoying and ludicrous.

If you want to try Deaver, check out The Devil's Teardrop or the Bone Collector. This is not worth the effort.

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Speaking in tongues: An analysis
Donald S Metz
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English - One Tongue, Many Voices
Jan Svartvik , and Geoffrey Leech
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The Mother Tongue : Book 1 (Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing English)

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The Mother Tongue : Book 1 (Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing English)
Sarah Louise Arnold , and George Lyman Kittredge
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Tongue Speaking: The History and Meaning of Charismatic Experience

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One of the best books on the subject

Tongue Speaking: The History and Meaning of Charismatic Experience
Morton T. Kelsey
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One of the best books on the subject.......2003-11-09

I am surprised no one has reviewed this book here, because it's a 39-year-old book (I have a first edition hardback copy, and it's one of the books I will always keep).

I consider Kelsey's book to be one of the best and most important books written on the Christian experience of speaking in tongues. That Upton Sinclair would write the forward, and say that the book is "a well-researched and well-written book; a work of scholarship and discernment," says more about the worth of this book than anything I could ever write.

Kelsey himself went off into strange theological and spiritual places, which disheartened and concerned his former admirers and friends like LeAnne Payne, and I would not endorse some of the other books he's written (his book on Christian healing is good, though). But I say -- if you can find a copy of this book, GET IT. Read it. The "Charismatic Movement" somewhat officially began in 1960, and it's had its ups and downs, but the reality of the Holy Spirit and the Charismatic manifestations continues to change peoples' lives today.

For another good book on the subject, read John Sherrill's THEY SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, also first published in 1964.

Tongue speaking;: An experiment in spiritual experience (Waymark books)

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Wonderful book

Tongue speaking;: An experiment in spiritual experience (Waymark books)
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Wonderful book.......2005-08-30

The book is about tongue speaking history from the first day of Pentecostal thru the centuries and ends when it was written, in the middle of the 1960 ties. Did you know that tongue speaking has always been present in the Orthodox Church, but that it in the Catholic Church, and many protestant churches it has been seen as a sign of evil? Simple facts like this is scattered all around the book.

The author writes about many different epochs and cultures. He is trying to explain some of the reasons of why tongue speaking is alien in churches. One of his theories has to do with viewing of the world in a materialistic vs. a spiritual way. It is also a case study, both of persons and of churches.
The author has kept a correspondence with Jung about tongue speaking, which he refers to. Jung regards it as a way to get in touch with the spiritual reality, and in that way makes a person more whole as a being.

The book is interesting, exiting, very well written and easy read.

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