if i were extremely ambitious, i'd read...
Submitted by taryn on Wed, 03/28/2001 - 08:40
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- finnegan's wake by james joyce
- imitation of christ by thomas a kempis
- crime and punishment and brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
- you can't go home again by thomas wolfe
- dharma bums by jack kerouac
- man's search for meaning by victor frankl
- subversion of christianity by jacques ellul
- confessions of a guilty bystander and seven storey mountain by thomas merton
- letters and papers from prison and cost of discipleship by dietrich bonhoeffer
- orthodoxy by G.K. chesterton
- a testament of hope by martin luther king jr.
- knowing god by J.I packer
- pursuit of god by A.W tozer
- waiting for god by simon weil
- fountainhead/atlas shrugged by ayn rand
- something by noam chomsky
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translation: a hopeful (doubtful?) lifetime reading list
also, if anyone has suggestions on which books to start with on those last few authors, please tell me! sometimes it's daunting to even figure out where to start.
Crime and Punishment I really didn't find that hard to get through. Dharma Bums on the other hand....
Dharma Bums was great. If you don't like Kerouac's style in general then I could understand your not liking this one, but if you've previously enjoyed Kerouac I don't see why you wouldn't like this one. In this novel he discusses and presents his Buddhist thinking while at the same time recounting wonderful stories about parties, hiking and general debauchery.
It's the only one of his i've tried to read. Granted it was quite a few years ago, but I just couldn't get into it. It's now one of several sitting on my shelf daring me to try again sometime.
The Wisdom of the Desert is the only Merton I've read, but it was short enough to be easily read.
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