by XJW4EVR 68 Replies latest jw friends
The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life (Definitely the greatest impact as it resulted in 30 stolen years of life)
Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan (not really about Trout Fishing)
In honor of 9/11, my favs in its aftermath:
Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Against All Enemies - Richard Clarke
Imperial Hubris - Michael Shoyer
Pride and Prejudice, Dicken's books to learn about the societal problems, etc. at the time.Juni - This is a Jane Austen novel. So similar to Dickens, though.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence
Ten Philosophical Mistakes by Mortimer J. Adler
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden
Surely, you're joking Mr. Feynmann (and)
What do you care what other people think by Richard Feynmann and Ralph Leighton
NONSENSE: a book of logical fallacies by Robert J. Gula
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of Science and Technology by Isaac Asimov
The Gentile Times Reconsidered: Chronology & Christ's Return by Carl O. Jonsson
MISQUOTING JESUS by Bart D. Ehrman
Shakespeare: the invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Little Toe: While there are many books that have affected me deeply, there are none that reached as far as reading the Gospel of John in isolation.
We're almost on the same page here, Little Toe. I've read the Gospel while on the John in isolation!
Charles Darwin
I read alot more fiction than non. I still enjoy re-reading some of the classics I first fell in love with during my childhood. Books were my windows to a normal world. One I escaped to almost constantly. Without books I think I would have gone bonkers quite early on!
Fiction
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables (Whole Series) - Luce Maud Montgomery
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Moonheart - Charles DeLint
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
Rebecca's Tale - Sally Beauman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Non - Fiction
Crisis of Conscience - Ray Franz
Visions of Glory - Barbara G. Harrison
Favorite book (I think-- so hard to say which is your favorite):
"The Magic Christian" by Terry Southern
Not about magic, not about christianity...
so funny it made me fall out of the couch.
:)
-K
1984
The Scarlet Letter
The Bible (various translations and commentaries)
Crisis of Conscience
A History of God
The Jesus Mysteries
Mapping Human History
The Blind Watchmaker
The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock
White Fang and Call of the Wild - Jack London
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dark is Rising series - Susan Cooper
Man and His Symbols; Psychology and the Occult; Dreams - CG Jung
many others...
