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« Reply #570 on: March 29, 2011, 05:08:PM » |
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I liked 1984 a lot.
Me too. It was depressing as hell, but powerful because of that. I've also read Animal Farm and a few of his essays, but 1984 is my favorite. You know what, I've never read 1984. I was thinking of Animal Farm. So 1984 is a to-do. Heh heh... woops! is a more realistic book than Animal Farm, and also darker in my opinion (although they're both pretty dark). Animal Farm is a sort of barnyard allegory about communism. 1984 directly depicts a ruthless totalitarian government. I think 1984 is the better of the two. It perhaps hits harder because of the realism. It's easier (for me, anyway) to empathize with people than with animals. |
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« Reply #571 on: March 29, 2011, 05:41:PM » |
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I've only read 1984 once *shudder*, and it was so horrific that I can't bring myself to read it again. :o I haven't read Animal Farm, but O've heard it referred to so often (even by my priest!) that I'd like to read it just to see what they're talking about!  |
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« Reply #572 on: March 29, 2011, 06:11:PM » |
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I've only read 1984 once *shudder*, and it was so horrific that I can't bring myself to read it again. :o I haven't read Animal Farm, but O've heard it referred to so often (even by my priest!) that I'd like to read it just to see what they're talking about! Animal farm is good, but very overrated. |
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« Reply #573 on: March 29, 2011, 07:05:PM » |
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Why I Hate Canadians and How To Be Canadian both very good and very funny.
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« Reply #574 on: March 29, 2011, 10:08:PM » |
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I've only read 1984 once *shudder*, and it was so horrific that I can't bring myself to read it again. :o I haven't read Animal Farm, but O've heard it referred to so often (even by my priest!) that I'd like to read it just to see what they're talking about! Animal farm is good, but very overrated. Don't forget Huxley's Brave New World.Combine this n 1984 and we have the modern worldview |
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« Reply #575 on: March 30, 2011, 08:26:PM » |
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The Conquest of Gaul, by Gaius Julius Caesar
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« Reply #576 on: March 31, 2011, 02:04:AM » |
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Right now I am reading Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson .One of my favorite book.  |
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« Reply #577 on: March 31, 2011, 03:48:AM » |
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I am reading Bl. Columba Marmion's "Christ in His Mysteries" and Martin Mosebach's "The Heresy of Formlessness".
Both very excellent works! I would recommend anything by Marmion if you can find it.
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« Reply #578 on: April 02, 2011, 09:04:PM » |
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Edward Feser's The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. This was recommended to me by SouthpawLink in another thread a week or so ago.
I have always been skeptical of the Church's claim that the existence of God can be known "by reason alone." Feser aims to demonstrate the truth of this claim, or at least to show that theism is more reasonable than atheism. For the moment, I remain skeptical, but I actually hope he's right. Let's see if he can convince me. I will report back when I finish the book.
Time for my book report. One relatively short book isn't enough to make the complete case, so I'm still a bit skeptical. However, he did convince me that Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, et al are guilty of gross oversimplification, and that the case for theism is much stronger than they are willing to admit. I cannot judge "the case for theism" without going a lot deeper into it, so I intend to do that. Feser swears by St. Thomas Aquinas, who I've always avoided, but I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and dive into his two big works. And before doing that, I need to spend a little time with Plato (I think I hear Quis applauding), Aristotle, and St. Augustine. To make time for that, I plan on spending a lot less time on the forum, although I will pop in from time to time. So for the next few months, "what I'm reading right now" will be a lot of Plato. Then on to the rest, in chronological order. |
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« Reply #579 on: April 03, 2011, 04:44:PM » |
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Grasshopper,
If you want a good "chopped-down" version of the Summa Theologica, check out Peter Kreeft's A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa. Both have excellent footnotes that really help the first time reader. Sadly, only the first book has the "Five Ways" in it; the second book only has how God's existence is neither self-evident to reason nor an article of faith.
I hope this helps!
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"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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