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I have to give the book/author itself 5 stars but I would have given 4 for the cover of the book because it came with a black ink smudge that I have to remove with elbow grease and rubbing alcohol and the front cover over the hardcover was slightly dog-earred.

I love this series and early on in my Christian walk as I was rededicating my life to God I came across this series and it explained the need to completely “die to myself,” and be “born again,” as a “new creature/creation,” in a way that I finally understood.

I finally understood through reading this whole series that good works wouldn’t cut it and that at best I’d always return to a “malting” or “rotting skin” state without the new birth, but if I died to myself and allowed the life of Christ through His blood to drown me (book explains better) then I could be a new person not forcing myself to live a Christian life but willingly living it because God’s life was now in me.

It has strong undertones of Eden and the fall for anyone familiar with the Bible, but I feel like anyone who just wanted to understand the Christian faith, without religion, but with all the keystone concepts of the faith, would be helped and blessed by this book.

As I’ve grown in my Christian walk I don’t read Ted Dekker as much because I feel a lot of his other novels tend toward the dark side and are borderline (if not fill out) horror books, but this particular series is on that I feel I could read again even now.

We ordered it for a Secret Santa for my husbands work for a co-worker who put down that they enjoyed books that are fantasy/fiction and we figured this would be a great way to introduce the gospel of Christ to someone without an overtly Christian text.


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Green The Circle Book 0 The Beginning and the End Ted Dekker 9781595542885 Books Reviews

I've read five Dekker novels and am currently enjoying my sixth dive into the stimulating and satisfying imagination of Ted Dekker. I have not been disappointed yet. In this order I've read Black, Red, White, Green, Chosen, and now I'm swimming in Infidel.

I'm aware that almost all his books have a one word title, but for some reason I wish he would have used something other than colors for the circle series. I liked the title "Black" because it was the first one I bought not knowing he wrote other books. When I found the other three, I loved the stories but not the titles.

Actually, even though I purchased Red, White, and Green, separately, I hadn't read them yet when I discovered "The Circle." It contained all four novels, including an alternate ending to Green, and a Dekker interview. So I bought two of those, gave one away and started reading Red. I liked both endings to Green.

One story element in the series I wasn't comfortable with was the fact that the Horde Scabs referred to the forrest dwellers as albinos. After all, the Forest Guard and all their families had dark tan skin. But this didn't take away any of the fun I had reading them.
The title says the beginning and the end. You need to read this one last. First read the original three Circle books (Black, White, Red). These are the best ones. Then read the three books in the Paradise series. You may have to wade through the first Paradise novel, since it is the worst one of the lot. It really picks up by the second one though. Then read the Lost Book series. Be aware that the Lost Book series is really geared towards teens. Finally read Green. The characters get thrown into the story line right and left from these other books, and you will get lost if you do not read the others first.

The introduction to the books of the circle series says you you need to imagine a future where the history here on earth replays itself again. The primary difference in this future is that all things spiritual can be seen. You can see evil, good, sin, etc. Ted Dekker being a Christian author, he has geared the Circle series to the following periods

Black the garden of Eden
Red Life under the law (bathing in restoring water daily to keep the visible infection of sin away)
White Life under grace (need to only die to sin once)
Green The end (and beginning)

These being by Ted Dekker, he keeps you on the edge of your chair all the time as to how the hero of the book is going to get out the predicament that he is in, all the way from a killer virus wiping out everyone on earth to how our hero is going to keep from getting wiped out from a million Horde warriors riding to kill him and a few thousand true believers.
I really enjoyed the Circle Trilogy. A very beautiful, interesting approach to re-telling the Christian story. But the ending of GREEN is a disappointing and ANNOYING ending to an otherwise lovely narrative. One of the things that sets Christianity apart from Taoism (and some other religions and philosophies) is that there is true culmination -- Love and Light triumph and darkness and wickedness are conquered and judged, gloriously and forever -- as opposed to Taoism, where there is this eternal, unresolved, ongoing struggle between dark and light.

And with GREEN, Dekker takes his story and makes it an eternal cycle with no end. And by doing so, he also chooses to ultimately make all the struggle and supposed meaningfulness and adventures of his characters meaningless, since at the end of it all, everything that happened counts for nothing and is erased by the decision of one man. So...all the people we grew to care about? GONE. All the beautiful lessons learned? GONE. Ted may have thought this was clever - but imo, it was merely annoying.
I have to give the book/author itself 5 stars but I would have given 4 for the cover of the book because it came with a black ink smudge that I have to remove with elbow grease and rubbing alcohol and the front cover over the hardcover was slightly dog-earred.

I love this series and early on in my Christian walk as I was rededicating my life to God I came across this series and it explained the need to completely “die to myself,” and be “born again,” as a “new creature/creation,” in a way that I finally understood.

I finally understood through reading this whole series that good works wouldn’t cut it and that at best I’d always return to a “malting” or “rotting skin” state without the new birth, but if I died to myself and allowed the life of Christ through His blood to drown me (book explains better) then I could be a new person not forcing myself to live a Christian life but willingly living it because God’s life was now in me.

It has strong undertones of Eden and the fall for anyone familiar with the Bible, but I feel like anyone who just wanted to understand the Christian faith, without religion, but with all the keystone concepts of the faith, would be helped and blessed by this book.

As I’ve grown in my Christian walk I don’t read Ted Dekker as much because I feel a lot of his other novels tend toward the dark side and are borderline (if not fill out) horror books, but this particular series is on that I feel I could read again even now.

We ordered it for a Secret Santa for my husbands work for a co-worker who put down that they enjoyed books that are fantasy/fiction and we figured this would be a great way to introduce the gospel of Christ to someone without an overtly Christian text.