Read it. If it doesn't encourage some deep soul-searching, you may be part of the problem.
Posted on 12/24/2007 6:21:46 AM PST by randita
Anything by Joel Rosenberg:
“Faith Undone” by Roger Oakland:
Merry Christmas to you and Snoopy!
Thanks!
Best New Year wishes to you and yours.
May y’all always have a heart full of happy.
Shadow Divers is a GREAT BOOK
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (wrote "All the Pretty Horses")
I also enjoyed:
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
I'm sure I've read it cover to cover six times by now, and I refer to it all the time. Rush let me read the bit about socialized medicine at the motor factory on his show many years ago. Don't be intimidated by small comments. Reading Atlas Shrugged once is sort of like listening to The Magic Flute only one time. You would miss so much.
ML/NJ
Like the character named Millie Bush! :)
Those interested in pop culture might pick up "Blonde Ambition" by Rita Cosby.
"Silent Witness" by Mark Fuhrman
Let me know what you think of “The Everlasting Man.” I discovered Chesterton last year and have not read it. I have a hard time finding Chesterton in the local bookstores (and sadly even in the local Christian bookstore.
You won’t find Chesterton in most “Christian book stores” because most such stores are evangelical/protestant and (with the possible exception of “Orthodoxy”) Chesterton is viewed by this group as a “Catholic” author. The good news is that most well stocked bookstores such as a Barnes and Noble will have several of his books, and of course it is easy to buy Chesterton from Amazon, B&N or Ignatius Press on line. Also, any of your local bookstores should be able to order most of his titles without any difficulty.
I don’t think that’s the case with evangelical bookstores. Orthodoxy is carried in our local one, and my preacher has mentioned Chesterton in his sermons. Chesterton is one of those apologists (seemingly confined to Britain between the wars) that is read by Catholic and evangelical alike. He wrote Orthodoxy for example as a Protestant. I think it’s more the lack of demand from Christian’s overall for weightier fare (which is a shame given the clarity of Chesterton’s writing).
Also enjoyed
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K Massie - this is a great read and the similarity of the personality conflicts to today’s war gives perspective
The Empires of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by Rene Grousset - this one will be tedious and dry if you are not interested in this area
Buddha’s Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet by Mikel Dunham Dunham set out to investigate how people with a tradition of warfare could also be the seat of Buddhism and ended up with this moving and tragic narrative. Dunham is a Buddhist, and while this is his original motivator he is not preachy or anti-western (at least in this book - I have never read anything else by him).
Shadow Warriors by Kenneth Timmerman.
Going back to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for a change of pace.
I am a big Silverberg fan.
So what did you get?
Gertrude Bell, Team of Rivals, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Last Place on Earth - just to name a few. How about you?
Gertrude Bell looks interesting and I think we have The Kite Runner around here somewhere, but I have not read it.
I can’t remember everything from the beginning of the year but recently finished
The Epic of the Crusades - Grousset
Gates of Fire - Pressfield
and currently working on
Sudden Origins - Schwartz
Wife and I normally get a big pile at the end of the year and then again mid-summer. I don’t know where you are but outside of Binghamton , Penguin Publishers has a huge overstock sale - 10% of cover price - almost every year. If you are willing to battle the crowd and rummage a bit you can come away with quite a haul.
I’ll have to check some of those out. We’re in PA, but in a pretty large town with LOTS of used book sales - churches, libraries, etc. so it’s easy to find bargains.
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