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"There you go again, adding to my reading list."

Ha! These gentlemen are hardly on the same level as the other things that have been suggested on this list, but if you get toxed out on theological reading and want to read some first-rate literary criticism and commentary on maintaining sanity in the modern world, writers like Tate, Ransom, and Davidson -- not to mention more recent writers such as the poet Wendell Berry and the political historian and literary critic M.E. Bradford make are very nice reads over a good single-malt whiskey...

...want to read some first-rate literary criticism and commentary on maintaining sanity in the modern world, writers like Tate, Ransom, and Davidson -- not to mention more recent writers such as the poet Wendell Berry and the political historian and literary critic M.E. Bradford make are very nice reads over a good single-malt whiskey...

I very much like reading literary and cultural criticism. I have never read any of the authors you mention, but I am putting them on my reading list (long--very long).

I just finished reading some critical essays by C.S. Lewis on literature. Excellent. Also almost done with Tolkiens's "The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays." I have read almost everything the cultural historian and critic Jacques Barzun has written. I also like Victor Hanson who is a classical scholar, military historian, and farmer. His knowledge of farming helped him make a significant contribution to understanding how the ancient Athenians fought war.

Reading is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Of course tastes vary, but I don't know how you can develop any taste without reading.

"...very nice reads over a good single-malt whiskey"

The Macallan; with all due respect to Kosta, the very nectar of the Gods! :)

PS: Kosta, my source of Bulgarian domaca just got back from the old country with a year's supply of his Dad's schlivo for me! Happy Day!