Born Again


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(4.6 stars; 6 reviews)

"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long indigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.uk

Alfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Introduction by ChuckW) (7 hr 46 min)

Chapters

00 - Dedication 2:11 Read by Chuck Williamson
01 - Chapter I 7:00 Read by Chuck Williamson
02 - Chapter II 5:08 Read by Chuck Williamson
03 - Chapter III 6:28 Read by Chuck Williamson
04 - Chapter IV 8:10 Read by Chuck Williamson
05 - Chapter V 11:50 Read by Chuck Williamson
06 - Chapter VI 9:02 Read by Chuck Williamson
07 - Chapter VII 11:54 Read by Gabriela Cowan
08 - Chapter VIII 14:42 Read by Gabriela Cowan
09 - Chapter IX 14:10 Read by Gabriela Cowan
10 - Chapter X 17:46 Read by Gabriela Cowan
11 - Chapter XI 11:15 Read by Gabriela Cowan
12 - Chapter XII 12:12 Read by Gabriela Cowan
13 - Chapter XIII 6:42 Read by Gabriela Cowan
14 - Chapter XIV 8:05 Read by Gabriela Cowan
15 - Chapter XV 10:36 Read by Gabriela Cowan
16 - Chapter XVI 22:45 Read by Gabriela Cowan
17 - Chapter XVII 11:55 Read by Gabriela Cowan
18 - Chapter XVIII 14:39 Read by Gabriela Cowan
19 - Chapter XIX 11:15 Read by Gabriela Cowan
20 - Chapter XX 13:51 Read by Gabriela Cowan
21 - Chapter XXI 14:29 Read by Gabriela Cowan
22 - Chapter XXII 14:02 Read by Gabriela Cowan
23 - Chapter XXIII 13:53 Read by Gabriela Cowan
24 - Chapter XXIV 10:47 Read by Gabriela Cowan
25 - Chapter XXV 17:04 Read by Gabriela Cowan
26 - Chapter XXVI 9:20 Read by Gabriela Cowan
27 - Chapter XXVII 15:00 Read by Gabriela Cowan
28 - Chapter XXVIII 18:39 Read by Gabriela Cowan
29 - Chapter XXIX 14:56 Read by Gabriela Cowan
30 - Chapter XXX 14:41 Read by Gabriela Cowan
31 - Chapter XXXI 15:12 Read by Gabriela Cowan
32 - Chapter XXXII 8:08 Read by Gabriela Cowan
33 - Chapter XXXIII 14:42 Read by Gabriela Cowan
34 - Epilogue (Part 1) 26:17 Read by Gabriela Cowan
35 - Epilogue (Part 2) and Stray Shots 27:42 Read by Gabriela Cowan

Reviews

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(5 stars)

i started this book about 41/2 years ago and was very intread and thankfull of the it being avaable . for some reason or less i did not finish it and till now picked it up and finished now. not much i will can say other then its a mush read. it pulls you in the same way it takes you out? in good spirts! thank you to the ones that have read this book. our blessing are still moving the way we want them. rvl

one of my fav's


(5 stars)

very well written book