Book of Kings

Book of Kings may refer to:

  • The Books of Kings in the Bible
  • The Shahnama, an 11th century epic Persian poem
  • The Morgan Bible, a French medieval picture bible
  • The Pararaton, a 16th century Javanese history of southeast Asia
  • The Book of Kings, a 1999 World War II novel by James Thackara
  • The Book of Kings, a 2011 funeral doom metal album by Mournful Congregation

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    There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.
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    The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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    Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war?
    Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 18:20.