LN
crippled child requiring attention
robot hearts are boxy
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Post by LN on Dec 8, 2005 14:44:32 GMT -5
I really really like CS Lewis.
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Post by silvanos on Dec 8, 2005 15:52:17 GMT -5
Yes books are, and I wholeheartedly support a book thread to the "punk art" of tattoos when it comes to a cultural thread. CS Lewis is awesome in my opinion, other than going from Atheist to Christian Apolgetic.
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gena
still doesn't get it
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Post by gena on Dec 8, 2005 16:14:33 GMT -5
eh. i really don't like cs lewis.
but i LOVE books. right now i'm reading the inferno, big sur, and man's search for meaning.
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Post by josh on Dec 8, 2005 16:18:30 GMT -5
i am not really in the pro-cs lewis crowd. i had a teacher that taught him as fact, and can't really get over that. right now, though, i am trying to read:
the subversion of christianity - jacques ellul (really good, so far)
player piano - kurt vonnegut (STILL. augh. we ended up talking about it in my lit class yesterday because i was reading it. according to one girl, "KURT VONNEGUT IS A LIAR. HE BREAKS HIS OWN RULES." metafiction. yes.)
and the new razorcake, too.
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Post by silvanos on Dec 8, 2005 16:36:09 GMT -5
Big Sur is really good.
I'm currently reading Gaius Iulius Caesar's writings on his time spent in Gaul.
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Post by yansioux on Dec 8, 2005 17:59:23 GMT -5
i still haven't gotten to read any vonnegut. a lot of people i have talked to have told me that his books are some of the best out there. is his stuff as good as i hear?
I've currently been reading some dramas by Ibsen and Tennesee Williams.
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LN
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Post by LN on Dec 8, 2005 18:08:59 GMT -5
vonnegut is great. just great.
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Post by Brendan on Dec 8, 2005 18:17:49 GMT -5
but i LOVE books. right now i'm reading the inferno, big sur, and man's search for meaning. I so got you beat. I am reading Puragatory. |
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gena
still doesn't get it
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Post by gena on Dec 8, 2005 19:06:39 GMT -5
Haha, you are still reading that Vonnegut? Well, it is best prolonged, 'cause I go through his books like crazy and way too quickly.
And, Josh, have you read Bertrand Russel's Why I am Not a Christian? It is a bunch of really good essays. And most of them are amusing in that written-in-1910-but-still-so-fed-up-and-sarcastic-and-funny kind of way. Yeah, I'd reccomend it to anybody, especially Christians because it is always good to read things that make you think about what you believe.
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Post by silvanos on Dec 8, 2005 19:07:52 GMT -5
I just bought that Russel book actually, haven't had any time to read it yet.
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gena
still doesn't get it
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Post by gena on Dec 8, 2005 19:10:45 GMT -5
I finally got my copy back today.
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Post by noxiousidea on Dec 8, 2005 20:10:41 GMT -5
Ben pasely-Enter the worship circle
Just got done with it. I'm becoming such a mystic.
I'm down with C.S. and Scheafer. Other include: Aquinas, Plato, and uh...i forget
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Post by nightmare on Dec 8, 2005 20:13:23 GMT -5
Bishop Kallistos Ware.
delicious.
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Post by josh on Dec 8, 2005 20:16:18 GMT -5
Haha, you are still reading that Vonnegut? Well, it is best prolonged, 'cause I go through his books like crazy and way too quickly. And, Josh, have you read Bertrand Russel's Why I am Not a Christian? It is a bunch of really good essays. And most of them are amusing in that written-in-1910-but-still-so-fed-up-and-sarcastic-and-funny kind of way. Yeah, I'd reccomend it to anybody, especially Christians because it is always good to read things that make you think about what you believe. it's just taken me forever. i like the story line and the characters and everything, but i just never have time. i checked on amazon about that book, and it looks okay, and i definately see the argument he is making. you might like this ellul book, maybe, but who knows. he basically makes the argument that christianity is completely diverted from any of its original intent (which seems to be the same argument as this dude, or whatever, minus teh atheism part). who knows. when we hang out, we will talk about books. |
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Post by throwthestone on Dec 8, 2005 21:24:51 GMT -5
right now i'm reading
fast food nation
subversion of christianity
still bored in a culture of entertainment
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