Your Library

The small but growing Dan Brown library.

That guy can keep me enthralled.

Fundamentals of Aerodynamics- 4th ed.
Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing- 3rd ed.
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students- 4th ed.
and more enthralling reading

oh yeah and a NRSV Bible.

I would love to have a more extended library, but I don't have any decent reading time lately, and there ain't much space in this here dorm room.

I'm all fiction all the time! I like novels that comment on social themes and American society through fictional characters. I'm not big on sci-fi or fantasy (I haven't ready a single word of Harry Potter, for example). I would also consider purchasing the Gossip Girl series, despite my being WAY TOO OLD. But the show is my guilty pleasure. :/

Skellington said:

Dekker is amazing.

My library is currently growing, but the one book I want so very badly but can't afford right now is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

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Oh, He so is!!!! i love the way his books never bore, theyre always full of exciting twists and turns! i think after i read the entire circle trilogy, I wanna get the young adults books! because the CT characters appear in those as well.wow i've never read that book before, i've heard of it though!

CCinoklahoma87 said:

Oh, He so is!!!! i love the way his books never bore, theyre always full of exciting twists and turns! i think after i read the entire circle trilogy, I wanna get the young adults books! because the CT characters appear in those as well.wow i've never read that book before, i've heard of it though!

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I liked the Circle Trilogy

If you get the chance, I would highly recommend getting Mere Christianity. And The Screwtape Letters. Right now I'm reading Surprised by Joy, and enjoying it. (Lewis, is my third favorite author, after G.K. Chesterton and Mark Shea)

CCinoklahoma87 said:

Oh, He so is!!!! i love the way his books never bore, theyre always full of exciting twists and turns! i think after i read the entire circle trilogy, I wanna get the young adults books! because the CT characters appear in those as well.wow i've never read that book before, i've heard of it though!

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I thought Dekker was going to be a boring read, but that was sort of like when I said that Top Thrill Dragster (a 425-foot 120mph roller coaster) "couldn't be that exciting".

I'm still trying to pry my foot out of my mouth on both counts.

Athanasius7 said:

I liked the Circle Trilogy

If you get the chance, I would highly recommend getting Mere Christianity. And The Screwtape Letters. Right now I'm reading Surprised by Joy, and enjoying it. (Lewis, is my third favorite author, after G.K. Chesterton and Mark Shea)

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The Circle Trilogy was, indeed, very, very good. I also second the reads that Athanasius7 suggested. Mere Christianity had a huge, huge influence on my understanding as a Christian of what my faith meant, as it was required reading for my Doctrine class in high school.

Skellington said:

Mere Christianity had a huge, huge influence on my understanding as a Christian of what my faith meant, as it was required reading for my Doctrine class in high school.

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I absolutely loved Mere Christianity. However, should I feel bad that I had read Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters both, resulting in Lewis being one of my favorite writers, and I still hadn't even heard of (much less read) The Chronicles of Narnia at the time? lol.

BTW, have you ever read anything by Chesterton?

Athanasius7 said:

I absolutely loved Mere Christianity. However, should I feel bad that I had read Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters both, resulting in Lewis being one of my favorite writers, and I still hadn't even heard of (much less read) The Chronicles of Narnia at the time? lol.

BTW, have you ever read anything by Chesterton?

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The Man Who Was Thursday. It was good, but not terribly to my liking.

Well, I loved it, but everyone has different tastes, I suppose.

What type of books do you usually read?

Athanasius7 said:

Well, I loved it, but everyone has different tastes, I suppose.

What type of books do you usually read?

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Perhaps I read it when I was not able to appreciate its full value. I always read a book at least three times before I dismiss it. I'll have to pick it up again.

I love the Classics from the medieval period up through the Victorian era, and I really enjoy Robert Frost. For modern authors I like Tom Clancy and Robert Liparulo. I also enjoy Lewis, Tolkien, and Chambers. I love reading theology, philosophy, history, social commentary, etc.

Perhaps I read it when I was not able to appreciate its full value. I always read a book at least three times before I dismiss it. I'll have to pick it up again

OK. Like I said, we all have different preferences...

Perhaps you would like his novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill better maybe?...When asked in an interview what his ten favorite books were, Terry Pratchett listed that novel first,

For teaching me how to see the world. To Chesterton, even a quiet street was a world of fantasy and a street lamp more precious that a star (because there's a universe full of stars, compared to which street lamps are really uncommon.

Then again, Pratchett also likes The Man Who Was Thursday, so maybe not....

I love the Classics from the medieval period up through the Victorian era, and I really enjoy Robert Frost. For modern authors I like Tom Clancy and Robert Liparulo.

Admittedly, I don't really read that many classics, so I cannot say much about that. No doubt that is something I am going to have to fix. The only "classics" I have really read are ones that are religious in nature (such as St. Augustine's Confessions, though that example predates the medieval period, of course).

I love Tom Clancy as well, especially Patriot Games. But I haven't heard of Robert Liparulo. Could you tell me a little more about him?

And since Chesterton wrote about everything you listed, let me just offer a few suggestions.

I love reading theology,

Plenty there, of course. You might enjoy The Everlasting Man (which C.S. Lewis described as the book that helped him the most in becoming a Christian, and as the best popular defense of the Christian faith he was aware of). And, of course, Orthodoxy. But there's plenty of others.

philosophy

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox would be a good book. It is considered by many leading Thomists (i.e., Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, Anton C. Pegis, etc.) as the best book ever written on this philosopher

history,

The Everlasting Man would fall under that category as well, plus there's always A Short History of England (best known as the history book without any dates in it, though in fact it has four. lol. But George Bernard Shaw thought highly of it)

social commentary, etc.

Plenty there as well, such as What's Wrong with the World (as Michael Crichton pointed out:

Chesterton saw the implications of their vision of twentieth century society, and he predicted exactly what would come of it

Like I said, there are plenty of others, but....

OK, I'm done now. Heh.

(Sorry, I'm a big Chesterton fan, so....)

Athanasius7 said:

I liked the Circle Trilogy

If you get the chance, I would highly recommend getting Mere Christianity. And The Screwtape Letters. Right now I'm reading Surprised by Joy, and enjoying it. (Lewis, is my third favorite author, after G.K. Chesterton and Mark Shea)

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cool, I will definitely look for them!

I also havent' even had the luxury to read Shakespeare....i was homeschooled almost all my life and mom didn't place alot of emphasis on literature. I remember asking her about shakespeare and other classic literary works and she just said "oh I read them in high school" lol!

When I look through my collection I see mainly art & biography's. I have a few self help books,poetry too.

I have a huge collection of books. I have a lot of childrens books, some textbooks, fiction, a lot of Bible and christian resources, christian fiction, informational books for things like music, cryptozoology, fact books and manga.

classics, children's literature, classic childrens literature, fantasy, christian, biographies, textbooks, a bunch of books by Tolkien, a bunch of books by LM Montgomery, Austen, Mark Twain, Ella Enchanted, etc. I don't really know what I have. I have a lot of books...

The transportable library [read: shelf] is mainly comprised of science fiction, mythology, crime fiction, generic fiction, theology, biology, ecology, evolutionary theory, cladistics, dictionaries, animal science, photography techniques and art history books.

I have far too many books so there's about 25 that get rotated whenever I go back to the parents. Normally I make sure to have the Duncton Chronicles though, quite adore those books.

Mainly have Bibles(5) Computing Texts(9) Theology(7) Classics and C.S. Lewis

Ishida said:

I have many of my college textbooks, all of the fiction books are in that category. Otherwise I have many religion books. Lots of C.S. Lewis, and two bibles.

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pscyhology and philosophy added, with some theologians too.