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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Book Memed! (and the favor returned in kind)

Mulier Fortis has book memed me! Since it's a meme I'm not putting a whole lot of consideration into my choices - just whatever comes to mind quickly:
  • 1. One book that changed your life. Leisure the basis of Culture by Josef Pieper was the first book I had to read for college. Everyone should read it.
  • 2. One book that you've read more than once. I was addicted to The Swiss Family Robinson as a kid - read it five, six times? Robinson Crusoe at least three times...
  • 3. One book that you'd want on a desert island. (lol, I hadn't read this question when I was answering #2). Anyway, I'll steal a thought from G.K. Chesterton when someone asked him this same question: Thompson's Guide to Practical Shipbuilding.
  • 4. One book that made you laugh. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What else?
  • 5. One book that made you cry. A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist. Theology should make you cry when it's done right. Abbot Vonier does it right.
  • 6. One book that you wish had been written. More books in the Lord of the Rings universe, perhaps a book about events that take place simultaneously but removed from the drama of the trilogy, a la The Horse and His Boy in the Narnia series (my favorite, by the way).
  • 7. One book that you wish had never been written. Almost any book by Zane Gray. I've repressed the memory of whatever book of his I had to read when I was in a book club, but it occupied some of the most miserable and boring hours of my life.
  • 8. One book that you're currently reading. Actually, I've been reading parts of Lee Silver's Challenging Nature, but I don't recommend it. Here's why.
  • 9. One book you've been meaning to read. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind. A huge gap in my political-reading formation.

Wow, this was a challenging little meme - and very thought provoking (for me at least). Let's see what Jimmy Akin has to say (if he has free time for memes). Hmm, dare I tag Advocatus Militaris also?

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