The CT Review: Peretti's Past Darkness
The best-selling novelist describes the tormented childhood that shaped his imagination.
Jeremy Lott | posted 3/05/2001 12:00AM
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Jeremy Lott is a contributing editor to Books & Culture and the sole proprietor of DeviantReadings.com.
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Once you get past the goofy Flash introduction of TheWoundedSpirit.com, there's plenty of worthwhile multimedia extras: an excerpt, a three-minute video summary narrated by Peretti, screen savers, and a lot more. The site also promises a workbook in the future. (The video ad for The Visitation is pretty cool, too.)
Christianity Today earlier reviewed Peretti's The Visitation, saying it was more successful as a novel than John Grisham's The Testament.
In a 1997 interview with World magazine, Peretti said he was tired of writing formulaic novels. "I guess I could just keep grinding out thrillers like a string of sausages," he told the magazine, "but after a while you just want to do more than the usual 'Christians minding their own business, then something bad happens, there's an investigation, then a turning point followed by a chase which builds to a climax-and right about here, somebody gets saved-and then the story resolves with some kind of moral and the whole cycle begins again in the next book' pattern. It's not a bad pattern; it works. But I don't want things to get too easy and repetitive."
The Dallas Morning News recently profiled Peretti and The Wounded Spirit.
More of Jeremy Lott's writings can be found at DeviantReadings.com and The American Partisan.
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