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Can I just say....OH MY TOAST!!! This book was incredible. I usually shy away from Mormon fiction... I don't appreciate the false integrity of the characters. Sorry, but usually it's just not realistic. (Remember, I said usually.) But, in Card's "Saints" the characters were very real. A wonderful book tackling polygamy and all the feeling involved. One caution, the book is fiction. The main character didn't live and her diary isn't real. Joseph Smith is portrayed as a man with faults, as well as a prophet. My testimony of Smith as a prophet and President of the Church was not shaken, but I know friends who have struggled after reading the book. The newly released hardcover is best to seek out, it has an afterward by Card that explains his process for writing the book, giving more information on what was fiction and fact.
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December 1, 2008
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January 2, 2009
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Jan 04, 2009 04:24PM
This sounds like an interesting read... I may have to check it out. I read Gerald Lunds' books "The work and the glory" and he had a hard time writing about that part of our history. I was a little weirded out by that part and I had to really read it twice more to comprehend it. It was really hard to read.
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And I LOVE your "oh my toast!" I'm gonna add that to my exclamations LOL.
