Favourite Book?

[Knight of the Holy Rosary]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1156721' date='Jan 5 2007, 02:58 PM']
[b]Fulton Sheen - Peace of the Soul[/b], Confessions- Augustine, There is another book called Charity written about 1930 that I have that is fantastic. Can't recall the preist/author.
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Peace of Soul....One of my favourites. When I was 15 I was dealing with severe anxiety/scruples and this book truly did give me [i]Peace of Mind[/i].

[SRMiller]

The complete works of Shakespeare (in one volume), and probably Tolkien.

[corban711]

i'm not sure...so many books have meant so much to me at different stages of my life!!! if i had to just say two off the top of my head...i guess I Believe in Love and Story of a Soul.

if i had time to think i would probably end up adding Mary, Mystery of Mercy by fr. marie dominique philippe instead of one of those two. descending fire would be close after that

[Moosey]

Picking a favorite book for me is like picking a favorite child. But, if I must choose, it would be these three:

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


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The Mother of the Little Flower by Celine Martin


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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[goldbug16]

"Brideshead Revisited"!!!!! Evelyn Waugh is my hero!

[Tindomiel]

I think I've narrowed it down to "War and Peace" - because it's so long and would give me plenty of reading. Andeither the LotR trilogy or "Story of a Soul".

[goldbug16]

You would put down "War and Peace". : Jk. I like it too.

[Tindomiel]

[quote name='goldbug16' post='1157375' date='Jan 6 2007, 11:35 AM']
You would put down "War and Peace". : Jk. I like it too.
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It's long, it's brilliant, and it's interesting.

[goldbug16]

....and confusing.

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1156726' date='Jan 5 2007, 02:04 PM']
I think I'd chain myself to my bookshelf if you tried to limit me. lol
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Same here.


It'd need to either be long and rich or so moving I could read it 50 times in a week.. and still want to read it again.

Goodness.. so many! As simple as it was, The Giver (which we read in 6th grade) was really ... different. I also loved Tuesdays With Morrie. Hamlet and Othello were two of my favorites from Shakespeare but how could you do without his other brilliant works? The Taming of the Shrew is so short though I'm not sure I'd care to bring that one. Then there's CS Lewis, Fulton Sheen, Peter Kreeft.. I'm loving this Garlands of Grace book.

I love the lives of the saints. The Life of St Francis of Assisi, St Francis of Assisi (Chesterton) and St Thomas Aquinas (also Chesterton), Diary of St Faustina, Story of a Soul, Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, Dark Night of the Soul... the list could go on forever.

I have always been fond of classics though I'm not sure I would choose them over the others. But still.. Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, everything by Dickens, so on and so forth.

War and Peace, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Watership Down, 1982, Animal Farm, A Wrinkle in Time, and a number of others that I read in school that were really great.

Lovely Bones and Lucky: A Memoir were two I read in college that were really well written.


But....
The one author I can't fathom leaving behind:










Thomas Aquinas.

[Tindomiel]

Oh yeah, St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa would be even better to take than War and Peace.... If you could only read two books, it would be nice if one could be long and profound enough to require several years per reading.

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='goldbug16' post='1157359' date='Jan 6 2007, 10:31 AM']
"Brideshead Revisited"!!!!! Evelyn Waugh is my hero!
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Is it good? I have it, but I haven't read it. The only Waugh thing I've read is a short story called "The Loved One"

[Tindomiel]

[quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1157462' date='Jan 6 2007, 12:53 PM']
Is it good? I have it, but I haven't read it. The only Waugh thing I've read is a short story called "The Loved One"
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Oh, Evelyn Waugh is great. Brideshead is a sort of study in the effects of Catholicism on the characters of an English family. Only one of them is a particularly good Catholic, but it's fascinating to see the others react to the faith, their efforts to shake it off, and their ultimate inability to do so. And it's very well written of course, like everything Waugh does.

[goldbug16]

[quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1157462' date='Jan 6 2007, 12:53 PM']
Is it good? I have it, but I haven't read it. The only Waugh thing I've read is a short story called "The Loved One"
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Tindomiel described it very well.

[Phoenix Reborn]

The Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice series.

Edited January 6, 2007 by Phoenix Reborn