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“Intro to EE c 1992” book list
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Date: July 24th, 2021 5:25 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy Welcome to EE (Emilio Estevez) circa 1992 (201). Since we’ve been sharing recommendations why not compile them in a megathread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42835885) |
Date: July 24th, 2021 5:30 PM Author: razzle-dazzle chartreuse theater Industrial Society and its Future (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42835905) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 5:30 PM Author: stirring orchestra pit death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42835907) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 6:30 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836137) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:51 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate lol, but unironically a great book, which exposes the modern idolatry of Science, Technology, and “Progress” quite clearly, and the lib feelings of insecurity which cause them to seek status, under the guise of “equality,” as saviors of their perceived inferiors - and which therefore causes them to seek an identity as “righteous” destroyers of wholesome, time-tested institutions like traditional (patriarchal) families, neighborhoods, countries... and, of course, White Christian Civilization itself.
(A superficially “compassionate” parody of Christianity, in other words, one of the devil’s favorite tricks. And liberal hubris is off the charts, as we’ve seen, playing God as a way of "life." They really do think they know better than all the accumulated wisdom of all the human civilizations, West and East alike - “chronological snobbery” as C.S. Lewis called it.)
C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron do a great job with the envy disguised as “equality” theme as well - the spiteful mutant crab mentality which libs and their pets have gravitated to as a way of life, tragically both for them and for decent and wholesome people of all stripes. #CrabLivesMatter
Of course, resenting white formerly Christian men for throwing in the towel is completely understandable, because without benevolent patriarchal / paternalistic sheepdog guidance and structure, we are all lost. There is a reason why everybody loves Disneyland, the love letter to White Christian Civilization, where white noblesse oblige towards all people reigns.
White men got a lot of people’s hopes up (the Walt Disney, John Wayne, Charlton Heston types) so the hysterical reaction is understandable - albeit a bit silly due to the lack of self-awareness, children throwing an extended tantrum because their parents (weak and cowardly parents) gave them the “liberation” they “thought” they wanted.
As Saint Teresa of Avila said:
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.” |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:57 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy 190 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836415) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:58 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate ;-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836418) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:23 PM Author: razzle-dazzle chartreuse theater Lewis, Vonnegut, and Uncle Ted? 180 as fuck dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836532) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:27 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate :-)
BONUS book
Kurt Vonnegut's son, Mark Vonnegut, MD - also highly 180, with an amazing level of humility and introspection, especially considering that he's the son of a famous author AND a doctor; it’s quite the miracle that’s he’s so easy-going and honest about his flaws:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7816284-just-like-someone-without-mental-illness-only-more-so |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:26 AM Author: flirting razzle fortuitous meteor pozpig 180 ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899747) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:42 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Yw! One of the funniest and most heartwarming autobiographical memoir type books ever written, with an astonishing level of self-awareness (which seems to run in the Vonnegut family). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899784) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 9:08 AM Author: stirring orchestra pit death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42838089) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 9:05 PM Author: jade sticky sweet tailpipe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836730) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 9:06 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate :-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836734) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:39 PM Author: Exciting white senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840597) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 2:31 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Newt 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42844559) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:16 PM Author: Exciting white senate I now have the Screwtape Letters coming to me, ty for the recommendation. (I like reading paper much more than reading on kindle) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853919) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:25 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate I 100% agree about paper over kindle - I'm 100% paper and sometimes audiobooks depending on the context (audiobooks while driving and cooking, and even sometimes while gardening, can be quite enjoyable).
Also, The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast (a kind of epilogue to The Screwtape Letters) are both indispensable; and they're almost always combined together in modern editions of The Screwtape Letters. |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:25 AM Author: flirting razzle fortuitous meteor pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899743) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:54 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40558082-doors-in-the-walls-of-the-world (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836404) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:56 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836408) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 7:56 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate :-)
Gorgeous book, short but sweet like most of my favorites.
And more to come as I think of them! |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:02 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836431) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:04 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Later this evening, absolutely.
I can already feel another night of MEGAPOASTING coming on, gorgeous megapoasting fruitful for all, God willing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtIuO5N3YY |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:50 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.amazon.com/Conversion-Spiritual-Journey-Twentieth-Century/dp/1597521019 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836642) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 8:55 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15292.Tolkien_s_Ordinary_Virtues
EDIT:
Another great Tolkien-themed book, from XO Peter Kreeft:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7333.The_Philosophy_of_Tolkien |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 9:03 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy gorgeous thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836717) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 9:05 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Gorgeous thread idea from a gorgeous poaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836727) |
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Date: July 24th, 2021 10:09 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42836976) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 2:31 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42844561) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:32 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51868083-jesus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840560) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:37 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy unmitigated 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840585) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:39 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate :-)
Marcellino D’Ambrosio aka Dr. Italy is the man, love that guy |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:34 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17556523-night-on-the-galactic-railroad-other-stories-from-ihatov (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840567) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:34 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193755.The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840571) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:35 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688738.The_End_of_Christendom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42840576) |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:36 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate XO Shusaku Endo:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25204.A_Life_of_Jesus |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:38 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate XO Saint Josemaria Escriva:
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Furrow-Forge-Single/dp/1889334723 |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:41 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate XO C.S. Lewis (of course):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111563.God_in_the_Dock |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:48 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate The Chesterton trilogy:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/112760.The_Everlasting_Man
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612143.Heretics
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87665.Orthodoxy
EDIT:
Almost forgot about this epic travelogue by Chesterton's good friend Hilaire Belloc:
https://tanbooks.com/catholic-liberal-arts-books/the-path-to-rome/
Also, a great overview of Chesterton's thought, a collection of his best essays:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11992607-in-defense-of-sanity
And a great 2019 biography making the case for GKC's Sainthood, from Dale Ahlquist, the same 180 biographer who compiled GKC's best essays linked above:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43522411-knight-of-the-holy-ghost |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 8:55 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate XO Jean Raspail:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_au-delà_de_la_mer
And, of course, his masterpiece, about the extinction of white Christian civilization - and sadly, it seems, first world traditional human civilization in general (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, et al.) at the hands of borderless androgynous Globohomo (read: the Borg hivemind)…
…which is culminating with (((their))) relentless assault on the proverbial Camp of the Saints - the ragtag defenders of our ancestors’ civilization and our God-given traditions, going down with the ship, passive-aggressive crocodile tears from foreign carpetbaggers and their careerist collaborators be damned:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1181058.The_Camp_of_the_Saints
As a bonus, a little-known book by Raspail from his Indiana Jones academic explorer years, told with his characteristic self-deprecating humor and compassion for all creatures great and small (including man, the strangest creature of all, somewhere between angels and beasts, as Aquinas said):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1384213.Who_Will_Remember_The_People |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 9:29 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Speaking of Kurt Vonnegut:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9597.Player_Piano
And, of course:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 9:31 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate XO Roald Dahl:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690.Danny_the_Champion_of_the_World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6671.The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Six_More |
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Date: July 25th, 2021 9:38 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate C.S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education - a great summary of Lewis’s thought, and how to apply it in a practical way:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25467659-c-s-lewis |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 2:29 PM Author: Greedy ladyboy fma I need to find a good epub torrent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42844548) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:52 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate ;-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853367) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:27 AM Author: flirting razzle fortuitous meteor pozpig use library genesis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899754) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:53 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Another of my Peter Kreeft favorites, about the 10 steps to Heaven (love of truth above all - regardless of whether it makes us feel good or bad, or makes us look good or bad - is the first step, he says):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16291587-jacob-s-ladder
And a great companion (a cautionary tale) with the stairway to Heaven, Kreeft going buckwild in 2021:
“When you ask them what’s wrong with the world, they never say there is not enough religion. They say there is not enough peace, prosperity, security, comfort, health care, or environmental responsibility. In other words, not enough human control over nature and human nature.”
“These essays are not new proposals or solutions to today’s problems. They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today. The most uncommon thing today is common sense.”
(Christianity, as Chesterton said, is simply sanctified common sense: "the insolent claim that civilization is preferable to savagery."
So when we lose God... we lose common sense, as we've seen, and will continue to see...) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:53 PM Author: Aquamarine Azn What's Intro to EE c 1992 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853381) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:55 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate I've recommended a lot of random books over the past few months in various threads and subthread wastelands, so some of my xo brothers asked me to put all my favorite books in a thread for easy reference. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853397) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:56 PM Author: Bull headed property codepig i expected an intro to electrical engineering syllabus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853399) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 8:57 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Lmao, I thought that too when I first scrolled past the thread, then did a double take when I saw the "1992" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853407) |
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Date: October 15th, 2021 9:39 PM Author: offensive hyperventilating preventive strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#43279282) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 9:28 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate A C.S. Lewis Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel about the modern Tower of Babel project - "That Hideous Strength" as a Renaissance poet once said.
"An organisation called N.I.C.E. which aims to control all human life" (sound familiar?):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100933.That_Hideous_Strength |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 9:39 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate My 3 favorites from XO Tom Wolfe:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8146619-the-right-stuff
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2664.Hooking_Up
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231.I_am_Charlotte_Simmons
The last one is the greatest account of the 21st century college experience I've ever come across:
It exposes all the different groups vying for influence with Wolfe's characteristic dry humor, and it shows - best of all - how to navigate the absurd gauntlet of modern life while keeping one's noble heart intact.
EDIT:
Can't forget Radical Chic (we are all living under its thumb, like it or not, ljl):
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Chic-Mau-Mauing-Flak-Catchers/dp/0312429134
And Wolfe's parting statement about human existence - going out on a high note with grace, poise, and consummate self-deprecating style as only he could:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28118522-the-kingdom-of-speech |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 9:41 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate For all my fellow animal lovers of XO:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32085.All_Creatures_Great_and_Small
And, for my fellow Jesusmos who love dogs (I'm looking at you, OP!):
https://scepterpublishers.org/products/no-longer-a-stray |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 9:45 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate The best history of scientific thought I've ever come across, told by a wonderful mother and very thorough researcher, obsessed with the truth beyond cultural trends, Susan Wise Bauer, who teaches college and homeschools her children, quite an inspiration:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316504-the-story-of-western-science
Many people forget that the original purpose of science was "helping to read God's book of nature."
It's no coincidence that the formal scientific method came out of Christendom - founded on love of objective truth, even though the idolatry of science (as with all forms of idolatry, rejecting God) has led to a bitter hatred of objective truth among $cience cultists... Odd case!
Nature is our wild sister, Chesterton said, God's creation which we have been given stewardship over.
Thus, science is BELOW theology in the hierarchy of essential knowledge: in contrast, the Bible, Christian traditions, the lives of the Saints, et al. help us to see God's overall self-revelation to man over the millennia, as C.S. Lewis said.
Christianity shows us the big picture - God's world and our place in it, to quote my dad, Fulton Sheen - and scientific truth is a humble part of that.
Science + its technological applications are highly useful tools given to us by God to make our lives more comfortable - not high-tech idols to worship like primitive cargo cultists, ljl. |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 9:49 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate My favorite Hermann Hesse book, a short and sweet one, about how we often encounter Christlike figures hiding in plain sight, Atlas holding the rest of us up like a loving and patient parent - and what happens when we take that for granted (the scenic route of wayward children):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13519.The_Journey_to_the_East |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:17 PM Author: Exciting white senate I read Steppenwolf a really long time ago, might look at this one too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853925) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:31 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate 180! I love all of Hesse's books (read all of them at some point or another, and I think Steppenwolf is up there in the top 5 or so).
There's something about the way the Christlike nature of the story sneaks up on the reader in Journey to the East (sinking with one's nose to the sunrise as Reepicheep would say)...
And this is even though I've read it a dozen times! It's pure magic, transcending anything the human intellect can come up with on our own, no doubt, like all my favorites. |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:08 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate And, last but not least, to state the obvious:
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The 5 main Tolkien works: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Silmarillion
And at least one Redwall book (the first one is the one absolutely indispensable one, though I enjoyed literally every single one, 22 in total):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7996.Redwall
And, in all seriousness, try to look at the cover of Redwall linked below and NOT fall in love with traditional Christian civilization (medieval Gothic Christendom): it's impossible.
Only if you're a Mouse Supremacist, in case that wasn't clear. If you find its Ratphobic nature disturbing, then please leave this thread immediately and head straight to your nearest traditional Catholic parish for the beginning of repentance: which might be painful at first, like drinking a bitter medicine - but it will free you from your angst, I promise!
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/28/dd/69/28dd69caef9af8993825cf5caa2fd7f0.jpg |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:32 PM Author: insane irradiated casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42854042) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:41 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate 180000000000000000000000000000000000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42854124) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:33 PM Author: Blathering Garnet Corner Boiling Water bookmarked this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42854055) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 10:40 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate I'm honored, my pumo brother :-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42854121) |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 11:20 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Almost forgot the cherry on top - my 2 favorites from Father Donald Calloway (who is a truly gorgeous guy inside and out, not flame):
https://images.marianweb.net/archives/galleries/fathercalloway/Fr._Donald_Calloway,_MIC.jpg
And he's always asking the essential questions, like:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7632095-no-turning-back
And, finally, the greatest place to be in this life:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17555116-under-the-mantle |
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Date: July 27th, 2021 11:56 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Last one, I promise! (I have too many books hidden in secret places around my house, lmao), from Peter Kreeft, of course:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52592709-wisdom-of-the-heart
Augustine tells of a vision of seeing a little boy at a beach scooping up the ocean thimbleful by thimbleful and emptying it out on the sand. Then he sees an angel who tells him that this boy will have emptied out the entire ocean long before Augustine has exhausted what can be said about God.
This site's Featured Writings and Featured Audio about the ocean of God's love are only a few thimblefuls. No—less. For God's love is literally infinite. It is the shoreless sea we are destined to swim in, surf in, and grow in forever.
Under the Mercy,
Peter J. Kreeft (tp)
https://peterkreeft.com/ |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:18 AM Author: Greedy ladyboy The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis Screwtape Proposes a Toast, C.S Lewis Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano, Harrison Bergeron, Slaughterhouse-Five Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut Doors in the Walls of the World: Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story, Peter Kreeft Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim, Malcolm Muggeridge Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings, Mark Eddy Smith The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings, Peter Kreeft Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life, Marcellino D'Ambrosio Night on the Galactic Railroad & Other Stories from Ihatov, Kenji Miyazawa The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby The End of Christendom, Malcolm Muggeridge A Life of Jesus, Shūsaku Endō The Way, Furrow, The Forge, Josemaria Escriva God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, C.S. Lewis G.K. Chesterton: The Everlasting Man, Heretics, Orthodoxy, In Defense of Sanity The Path to Rome, Hilaire Belloc Knight of the Holy Ghost, Dale Ahlquist Jean Raspail: Le Roi au-delà de la mer, The Camp of the Saints, Who Will Remember the People Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More C.S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education, Louis A. Markos Jacob's Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth, Peter Kreeft How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss, Peter Kreeft That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff, Hooking Up, I am Charlotte Simmons, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Kingdom of Speech All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot No Longer a Stray, Terry Deffenbaugh The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, Susan Wise Bauer The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis Tolkein: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion Redwall, Brian Jacques Donald Calloway: No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy, Under the Mantel Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All, Peter Kreeft
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:19 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899723) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:54 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Of course, I just remembered a few more essentials, which became my intention with this thread once the gorgeous and gracious OP brought the idea to my mind (and I wasn't kidding about the disorganized nature of my library, Ho Lee Fuk)...
My favorite work from my honorary dad, Fulton Sheen:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1767874.Lift_Up_Your_Heart
My favorite from Christopher Lasch, a highly prophetic work from the early 90s, his closing plea for humanity and common sense at the dawn of the Globohomo era:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/586994.The_Revolt_of_the_Elites_and_the_Betrayal_of_Democracy
The best Walt Disney biography (I've read them all, including some truly terrible shitlib ones, so you don't have to, my dear reader!):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526061.Walt_Disney
One of my favorite childhood books - Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era - about the days when everyone could leave their doors unlocked circa 1900, Walt Disney's Main Street USA (and it was also made into a great 1969 live-action Disney movie):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967511.Rascal
The greatest of all nature conservation books, from 1949, and still as relevant as ever - gently warning us about the perils of hubris and/or playing God, the eternal human folly; and it's filled with some of the greatest poetic descriptions of the simple life in harmony with nature that you will ever encounter:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210404.A_Sand_County_Almanac_and_Sketches_Here_and_There
My favorite book from Scott Hahn, with a foreword by none other than Peter Kreeft:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/68538.Rome_Sweet_Home
And, last but not least, one more from my guy Peter Kreeft, about the eternal relevance of the greatest of all Renaissance Men, Blaise Pascal:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18202.Christianity_for_Modern_Pagans
8/12/21 EDIT:
Two I just finished from two of the usual suspects, Peter Kreeft and C.S. Lewis, which I think deserve the greatest hits designation:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53661126-wisdom-from-the-psalms
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30037798-the-world-s-last-night
8/29/21 EDIT:
A few from my strangely hidden archives I'd overlooked, and strangely overlooked because I use expressions from them so often (and then forget where those expressions come from!):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4236494-saints-in-the-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51802785-the-restoration-of-man
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2676888-the-art-of-living
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/992078.Interior_Freedom
https://scepterpublishers.org/products/made-for-freedom-loving-defending-and-living-gods-gift
And, last but not least (for this edit!), a family book for the ages... and beyond:
https://www.ignatius.com/The-Big-Book-of-Christians-around-the-World-P3570.aspx |
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Date: August 6th, 2021 11:36 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate I don’t know why I always forget about this one: probably because Lewis’s signature non-fiction book was the foundation for my adult life as a benevolent patriarchal / paternalistic sheepdog in training (at 20 years old circa 2009), so it has a tendency to hide in plain sight - as many divine Easter eggs / windows into Heaven / doors in the walls of the world do:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792344-mere-christianity |
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Date: August 6th, 2021 11:45 PM Author: flirting razzle fortuitous meteor pozpig ive never read cs lewis. can u recommend a good book to start? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42910258) |
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Date: August 6th, 2021 11:56 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate I'd recommend this one I linked above first, C.S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education by Louis A. Markos:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25467659-c-s-lewis
It's very short and sweet and accessible, like all my favorite books (even the longer ones I like are always very clear in their thinking): a great overview of Lewis's thought and its practical applicability to both education and daily life.
If you enjoy it, definitely read Mere Christianity next - it's probably the most famous Christian apologetics book for a reason (at least it was for a long time, maybe not number 1 in name recognition anymore but close to it):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792344-mere-christianity
And of course the sheer wholesome entertainment value of the Narnia series is unparalleled outside of Tolkien and the Redwall series - it seems that all the wholesome and generally lovable people I meet IRL love Lewis and/or being introduced to Lewis, it's quite funny (a significant sign, I think).
As Malcolm Muggeridge, another great Christmo, once said:
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." |
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Date: August 6th, 2021 11:57 PM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate "Markos shows how Lewis serves as a bridge to the great books of antiquity and the middle ages. Both Markos and Lewis offer a more humane Christian pedagogy than the secularist models which focus unhealthily on gender, race, etc and on serving the market and the state as ends." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42910292) |
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Date: August 7th, 2021 12:02 AM Author: flirting razzle fortuitous meteor pozpig ty, will check it out this weekend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42910301) |
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Date: August 7th, 2021 12:14 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Yw, brother! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42910354) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:22 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42853399 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899740) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:55 AM Author: sapphire school cafeteria selfie lol I even noticed the 92, and thought it would be 90s era engineering books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4884946&forum_id=2#42899822) |
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Date: August 5th, 2021 1:57 AM Author: soul-stirring shrine doctorate Ask, and you shall receive, my friend:
https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Pleasures-Engineering-Thomas-Dunne-ebook/dp/B00CBFXLWQ |
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