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Those Darn Back Rubs

Written by Douglas Wilson

Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:27

Chapter Seven introduces Johnny Quinn, one of Camel Creek's youth ministers, and his girl friend Brandy. We are entering our seventh week of chapter installments, and I hope that all 1,902 unique visitors to the Evangellyfish web site have gotten their money's worth.

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Al	Sunday, August 24, 2008 8:47 pm

I could easily see myself paying twice as much.

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Mark comments

Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:28 pm

quite the title for the blog post there

Jim Hagan

Monday, August 25, 2008 12:21 am

Indeed enjoying it. However, the Ferrari revealed a slight lack of research. The seeker-friendlies usually have modest incomes and lifestyles. I think the adulation is a great attraction-being "the man." Now a prosperity preacher may go for the flashy car.

Will S

Monday, August 25, 2008 5:26 am

Ok, here is my constructive criticism.

First off, the praise. I have really enjoyed it so far. I have anticipated each new chapter. I am curious what happens next et cetera. In other words, as is it has been well worth the price tag.

But. I remember reading a Flannery O'Connor quote in which she said that she loved all her characters even the ridiculous ones (maybe that quote was in Credenda I can't remember). It seems like you don't like most of your characters. Most of the characters seem like they were created to be hated, mocked or simply examples of the sad state of evangelicalism.

That's my critique. I could be wrong. Anyway, thanks for posting the book and keep up the good work.

Charles Long

Monday, August 25, 2008 5:53 am

I dunno -- I didn't get exactly the same impression, Will. I see where you're coming from, but then I have 5 kids, and I frequently make funny faces at them behind their backs when my wife is looking, so that my wife and I can share a laugh at them in secret. It's not because we hate them, or actually despise their behavior. On the contrary, its a kind of attention we wouldn't even bother to give someone in whom we were not so emotionally invested.

[br][br]I could be projecting here, but I get the impression that if Doug were to see Johnny Quinn on the street, he'd give him a pastoral noogey and call him a blockhead, and worry over him like he was an honorary grandson.

Douglas Wilson

Monday, August 25, 2008 6:08 am

Will, that is a good observation and I agree with the principle. But I really do like them all, even Lester, and I especially like Johnny Quinn. I trust some of that will become more obvious later.

Jane Dunsworth

Monday, August 25, 2008 6:10 am

I'm with LongShot. If I had to guess, I'd say Mr. Wilson doesn't much care for Chad Lester or Sharon Atwater, but that he's pretty positive about everybody else (well, okay, there's the watchblogger and the lib blogger and his apostate fruitcake girlfriend, but even there I think it's more of a mild head-shaking disdain than active dislike) and especially has a soft spot for Johnny Quinn and the cops. In fact, if this were a typical Evanjelly novel, I'd expect Bradford and Rourke to get saved by the end, and even here, he has me wondering.

David Hodges

Monday, August 25, 2008 7:58 am

I agree with LongShot. I actually like Johnny myself. Why? For the same reason I like Rourke, Bradford, and even the rigid Pastor Mitchell: because I see myself in all of them in some way or another and I can identify with them, glaring warts and all.

I do think the topics of the story are a little on the seedy side myself. But then again, that is what we are dealing with here: something pretty darned seedy.

Jane Dunsworth

Monday, August 25, 2008 11:52 pm

Ah! Cross-posted and proved wrong! Again!

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