Knight of the Holy Rosary Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 (edited) If you were stuck with two books (exluding the Holy Scriptures ) to read...which ones would you choose? [i]Confessions of St. Agustine True Devotion to Mary[/i] Edited January 1, 2007 by Knight of the Holy Rosary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 I always pack three choices- CS Lewis, Peter Kreeft, and JRR Tolkien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight of the Holy Rosary Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Those are fine authors.....I love Tolkien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catholicinsd Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 The Confessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesusIPray Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 [quote]Those are fine authors.....I love Tolkien.[/quote] You rock : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavenseeker Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 dont have a favorite book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesusIPray Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Hmm, its hard, but at the moment, I'd have to say Arms of Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groo the Wanderer Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Tolkein Clarke Asimov hmm...maybe I need to broaden my horizons a bit... how bout.... Saberhagen Eddings Zelazny DRAT! foiled again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tindomiel Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) LotR trilogy... under one cover. and either [i]Crime and Punishment[/i], [i]War and Peace[/i] or [i]Story of a Soul[/i].... hard to choose. Edited January 2, 2007 by Tindomiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Hrm... That is a hard proposition... Fiction or nonfiction? Offhandedly, part of me wants to say Heart of Darkness by Conrad and Manalive by GK Chesterton, for a nice chiaroscuro effect. Then again, there's always things like True Devotion (anything by de Montfort), Orthodoxy (or anything by the ol' Quotesmith Chesterton), CS Lewis's stuff, LotR, Brothers Karamazov, etc, etc, etc... Then there's the little off-beat stuff... I'd have to concur w/ Asimov there. There's way too many good books to limit yourself to two! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Much too difficult to narrow down considering the vast amount of literature yet to be read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Fiction: Michael O'Brien's novels ([u]A Cry of Stone[/u] is my favorite ) Nonfiction: Kreeft, CS Lewis, Fulton Sheen, etc., etc., etc. Oooh stuck with two books. Hmm. Maybe the [u]Imitation of Christ[/u] (or [u]Transformation in Christ[/u], by Deitrich Von Hildebrand) and maybe... either St. Faustina's Diary, [u]Divine Mercy in My Soul[/u] or Ann Catherine Emerich's [u]The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ [/u] Edited January 5, 2007 by Totus Tuus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thessalonian Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Fulton Sheen - Peace of the Soul, Confessions- Augustine, There is another book called Charity written about 1930 that I have that is fantastic. Can't recall the preist/author. Edited January 5, 2007 by thessalonian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 [quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1154536' date='Jan 2 2007, 10:19 AM'] [b] Zelazny[/b] [/quote] This is definately a tough choice for me but I have to say, THANK YOU GROO!!!!! I read ONE of the Chronicles of Amber books ages ago and was thinking about trying to find it again and I could not for the life of me remember the author's name (and I only know the titles now because when I recognized Zelanzy's name I looked it up on Amazon.) I am a huge fan of literature in general (I've got a BA in Literature), I would be loathe to be without my Romantic and Victorian lit. books, and I love Dumas' The Three Musketeers (I lauded that as my favorite book for years), and then you've got your Jane Austin, Brontes, Tolkien, Shakespeare (so I like variety) and so on... I think I'd chain myself to my bookshelf if you tried to limit me. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tindomiel Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I forgot "Orthodoxy" and Shakespeare. Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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