Runtu wrote:So, of course, she's outraged that I published the book and told my wife she should demand I pull it out of circulation.
Hopefully your wife stuck up for you! How did she handle this? Also, how could this friend feel so strongly about it being "anti" when she hasn't even read it yet? Unbelievable!
The print version should be finished in the next couple of days, just in time to give it as a Christmas gift. :) I'll let you know when it's ready.
I've been really pleased with the reception of the book. Everyone from believing Mormons to hardened apostates has enjoyed the book. My wife's cousin, who is married to an LDS military chaplain, loved it, and so did her husband. And Richard Packham (you know, that evil guy who started the exmormon foundation) reviewed the book for AML:
I should note that I deliberately omitted an epilogue, as I felt like readers are smart enough to make up their own minds about the story. They don't need me to tell them how to interpret it.
This has been a great experience for me, and I've appreciated the support of my friends here and elsewhere. Thanks for the encouragement. It means a lot.
That's great, Runtu! I think another round of congratulations are in order.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Wish I had a kindle so I could read the book as well— but I'm holding out for one of Mr. Jobs more expensive, no-flash jobbies in the future. If only I weren't in a profession that requires me to be a Mac-o-phile.....
Runtu is easily one of my favorite posters here, is downright insightful and seems like an all around good guy so I good things from the book. Maybe I will be able to read it at some point.
I am interested about the title though. It certainly is descriptive of the subject matter but it is also the name of a great 1981 album by the post punk legends Echo and the Bunnymen....likely my favorite by the band. Are you a fan Runtu?
Crawling around the evidence in order to maintain a testimony of the Book of Mormon.
Runtu, please update us here when the print version is ready to go. May I go to your house, pay you for it on-the-spot, and get you to sign it?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
badseed wrote:Wish I had a kindle so I could read the book as well— but I'm holding out for one of Mr. Jobs more expensive, no-flash jobbies in the future. If only I weren't in a profession that requires me to be a Mac-o-phile.....
I'm pretty sure a Kindle app is available for the Mac that would allow you to read any Kindle content on that computer. Just saying. :-)
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
badseed wrote:Wish I had a kindle so I could read the book as well— but I'm holding out for one of Mr. Jobs more expensive, no-flash jobbies in the future. If only I weren't in a profession that requires me to be a Mac-o-phile.....
I'm pretty sure a Kindle app is available for the Mac that would allow you to read any Kindle content on that computer. Just saying. :-)
That's how I read it, though I will probably order a copy from Lulu as well, eventually.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
badseed wrote:Wish I had a kindle so I could read the book as well— but I'm holding out for one of Mr. Jobs more expensive, no-flash jobbies in the future. If only I weren't in a profession that requires me to be a Mac-o-phile.....
Runtu is easily one of my favorite posters here, is downright insightful and seems like an all around good guy so I good things from the book. Maybe I will be able to read it at some point.
I am interested about the title though. It certainly is descriptive of the subject matter but it is also the name of a great 1981 album by the post punk legends Echo and the Bunnymen....likely my favorite by the band. Are you a fan Runtu?
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, that's where the title comes from. My brother had sent me a few contraband cassettes, including Heaven Up Here, Porcupines, and Ocean Rain. One night when I had reached my limit with a self-righteous companion, I popped in a cassette and heard, "It may be hell down there 'cause it's heaven up here." It cheered me up immensely.
Seemed like a fitting title since I spent so much of my mission at extremely high altitudes (13,000 feet up, or so).