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keith99

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faroukfarouk said:
I guess if fiction and allegory are to one's taste, then C S Lewis is likely to appeal more.
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Save for The Screwtape Letters I far prefer his essays over his fiction , which I find lacking.

Weight of Glory is a collection of several excellent essays. However if one feels inferior and shuts down because on not understanding evcery single reference then it might not be good to read. If instead one makes a decent guess from context and moves on or decides to look it up later one can learn a lot.
 
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Thanks for your comments!
 
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Every spring the president of the university I'll be attending selects three books for the incoming first-years to read over the summer and discuss on our class forum and during orientation events in the autumn. This year's selections are:
The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson, This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff and Cane River, by Lalita Tademy. I'm sort of alternating between the three.
 
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I've been trying to read the Bible (King James) cover to cover. I'm mid-Judges at the moment, so I still have a trek ahead of me. I've read the book of Job and the Gospel of Matthew before, but otherwise, this is essentially fresh territory to me. Having been born with the sort of passion that made me blow my future on an English degree, I must say that, speaking not a word of whatever truth or spiritual value one thinks the Bible has, there is so much literary greatness here. Even if one thought that Genesis were a work of fiction, they would have to acknowledge its artistic greatness.

Incongruously enough, I'm also reading the Harry Potter books. Seeing what I missed as a kid. They're quite entertaining!
 
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You want a list? Because I can give you a list.
The Christianese Dating Culture by J.S Park
Captivating by John & Stasi Eldredge
For Young Women by Shaunti Feldhahn & Lisa Rise
I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
Boy Meets Girl by Joshua Harris
Love Does by Bob Goff
Jesus > Religion by Jefferson Bethke
Techincally Virgin by Hayley DiMarco
Young and In Love by Ted Cunningham
The Book of Mormon (including the D&C and PGP)

I'm also reading through the Harry Potter series, the Maze Runner series (again), and, of course, the Bible. I kind of like reading and expanding my knowledge.

EDIT: I just realized I'm also reading The Sword by Bryan Litfin.
 
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