Posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:27 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
Huckleberry Finn
To any freepers that haven't read this book, and I doubt there are many, please, please rush out and get a copy. It is in my mind the quintessentional protrait of an American.
There have been quite a number of well written comics and "graphic novels" with serious topics addressed. Some of my favorites were the "Uncanny X-Men."
Mark
The Narnia books, the trilogy, "The Great Divorce" C.S. Lewis
"Song of Bernadette" Franz Werfel
The Holy Bible
"Radical Son" David Horowitz
"Theology and Social Theory" John Milbank
Just now reading
Lyndon Johnson-Path to Power by Caro. It is a fascinating history of Texas, New Deal Politics and the Depression. It is the first of three on LBJ and his rise to power. The resarch Caro did was monumental. I highly recommend this series to all Freepers.
Lord of the Flies -Golding, From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa -Bliven, Legion of Strangers -Mercer, On the Beach -Shute
As an adult;
The Quest of the Historical Jesus -Schweitzer. The Last Lion -Manchester, Son of the Morning Star -Connell, Goodbye Darkness -Manchester, Memoirs of the Second World War -Churchill, The Pacific War 1941-1945 -Costello
There are others, but these are the important books that have been influential in helping to form the worldview that I now hold..
God - "The Bible"- various versions; mostly The New American Standard version.
Francis A. Schaeffer- "The God Who Is There", "Escape From Reason", and "He Is There And He Is Not Silent", "How Should We Then Live"- (These books were most influential in turning my thinking around.)
John Calvin- "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" and Calvin's Commentaries
Loraine Boettner- "The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination"
J.I. Packer- "Knowing God"
Martin Luther- "The Bondage of The Will"
R.C. Sproul- "Grace Unknown"
Michael Horton- "Putting Grace Back Into Amazing"
This kind of research is of utmost fascination to me, too, which is why I included The Roads That Led to Rome, post #49. I'll have to read yours next.
Cboldt is suspended from FR. What is going on? Second time in 2 days a favorite freeper of mine gone poof.
BTTT
E.B. White's essays (various collections)
Thoreau's Walden...the raspy old radical can stir you...but I got over it
Erik Erikson's Youth, Identity, and Crisis, a paste up job of his various projects; uneven, at times obscure, but the insights seemed so profound for many years; rarely look at it now
Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon: I was ready for a good obsession and this book set off a complete obsession (love AND hate) with France that is now five years old
Radical Son - Horowitz
Basic Economics - Sowell
Witness, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and The Closing of the American Mind all seem to satisfy that nagging, "just as I suspected" thought lurking in the back of one's mind as he slogs his way through the modern world.
I've heard interesting things about that one.
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics and Applied Economics
The Tempting of America by Robert Bork
For sports fans out there, Ken Dryden's The Game and Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada are two of the best sports books I've ever read.
bump for later
Anything by Torey Hayden
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
I've read and re-read and re-re-read them. I've given away more copies of the Manchester and Shaara books than I can count.
Oh and Childhoods End by Arthur Clarke, an absolute classic, if you haven't read it yet, I envy you.
I don't read vanity press books, sorry.
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