Who's your favorite author?

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Bernadette

August 07, 2024, 01:43:24 PM
I love Dickens best. I'm always listening to one of his books. For spiritual works, Teresa of Avila takes the cake. It's my ambition to one day read her works in the original Spanish, but I have to brush up on my languages first. I have her complete works in two translations: Kavanaugh and Peers. Haven't decided which I like better.
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KreKre

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August 07, 2024, 01:46:26 PM
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. I can't make up my mind between the two.
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Bernadette

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August 07, 2024, 01:52:48 PM
Quote from: KreKre on August 07, 2024, 01:46:26 PMC.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. I can't make up my mind between the two.
I have tried hard to love Tolkien, but I just can't. I've loved C.S. Lewis since childhood. My aunt bought me the whole Narnia series when I was 7. I recognized Aslan right away. :) I read some of his religious works years ago.
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LausTibiChriste

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August 07, 2024, 01:53:18 PM
Dostoevsky, hands down...for fiction.

For non-fiction, there's a lot of great writers out there, but Michael Lewis is fantastic
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Bernadette

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August 07, 2024, 02:02:14 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on August 07, 2024, 01:53:18 PMDostoevsky, hands down...for fiction.

For non-fiction, there's a lot of great writers out there, but Michael Lewis is fantastic
I remember reading Crime and Punishment years ago. Felt like I was slowly going crazy along with the main character.
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Michael Wilson

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August 07, 2024, 04:21:16 PM
Tolkien (of course) over-all. Then, Fr. Garigou Lagrange O.P. For his spiritual books, which are very solid and he doesn't complicate things too much for his readers. Lately, Fr. Phillip Hughes, writes in a very distinct English (British) way, which I find very attractive. Dom Anscar Vonier O.S.B. Very good and clear in his doctrinal works. Fr. Fahey CSSP, because of the big impact he made on my life with his books, especially "The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society".
I like to read John Grisham's courtroom/legal dramas; I think he is a good writer/story-teller. 
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"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

The Curt Jester

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August 07, 2024, 04:22:29 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on August 07, 2024, 01:53:18 PMDostoevsky, hands down...for fiction.

I tried Dostoevsky many years ago and found it mostly uninteresting, but I was only around 15 at the time.  It's probably time to try reading him again.
The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the Monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"

drummerboy

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August 07, 2024, 04:54:46 PM
 I feel like I'm cheating saying Tolkien, I do like his fiction.  But Chesterton I feel his underappreciated for his fictional works; I like both his fiction and non-fiction.

Otherwise, looking at my book shelves, I'd have to say Hillaire Belloc (I picked up alot of his discontinued books when my alma mater went defunct and they had an estate sale), William Thomas Walsh, and John Keegan.  If I find anything by these writers I automatically snatch it up.  Otherwise I don't generally look for authors so much as for books.
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Michael Wilson

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August 07, 2024, 05:21:45 PM
I also like William Thomas Walsh. I never heard of Keegan.
"The World Must Conform to Our Lord and not He to it." Rev. Dennis Fahey CSSP

"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

drummerboy

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August 07, 2024, 09:15:58 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on August 07, 2024, 05:21:45 PMI also like William Thomas Walsh. I never heard of Keegan.

English historian(+) who also happened to be Catholic.  Known for military historical works
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"Through the prayers of the Theotokos O Savior save us"

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GMC

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August 08, 2024, 07:47:12 AM
Non-fiction:

  • St Augustine: Confessions
  • Kempis: Imitation of Christ

Fiction:

  • Borges: The Aleph, Fictions, The Book of Sand
  • Robert E. Howard: Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane

clau clau

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August 08, 2024, 07:58:51 AM Last Edit: August 08, 2024, 11:01:13 AM by clau clau
C.S.Lewis - I have read most of his stuff (many of them multiple times).

The Narnia books are what started me on the reading bug 10 years too late - becoming intensely bored on long train journeys long before the advent of smartphones.

Tolkien is probably number 2 but I have not read all of his books, just LOTR and The Hobbit - although I recently discovered a rare allegorical story of his titled 'Leaf by Niggle' which was excellent.
"You must be mad," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here" - Lewis Carroll

But when he's dumb and no more here,
Nineteen hundred years or near,
Clau-Clau-Claudius shall speak clear.
(https://completeandunabridged.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-claudius.html)

drummerboy

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August 08, 2024, 10:57:17 AM
Quote from: clau clau on August 08, 2024, 07:58:51 AMC.S.Lewis - I have read most of his stuff (many of them multiple times).

The Narnia books are what started me on the reading bug 10 years too late - getting intensely bored on long train journeys long before the advent of smartphones.

Tolkien is probably number 2 but I have not read all of his books, just LOTR and The Hobbit - although I recently discovered a rare allegorical story of his titled 'Leaf by Niggle' which was excellent.


I love the Space Trilogy
"O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, granting to Thy people victory over all their enemies, and by the power of Thy Cross preserving Thy commonwealth."

"Through the prayers of the Theotokos O Savior save us"

"I like grumpy old cusses.  Hope to live long enough to be one" - John Wayne

Bernadette

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August 08, 2024, 11:48:15 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on August 08, 2024, 10:57:17 AM
Quote from: clau clau on August 08, 2024, 07:58:51 AMC.S.Lewis - I have read most of his stuff (many of them multiple times).

The Narnia books are what started me on the reading bug 10 years too late - getting intensely bored on long train journeys long before the advent of smartphones.

Tolkien is probably number 2 but I have not read all of his books, just LOTR and The Hobbit - although I recently discovered a rare allegorical story of his titled 'Leaf by Niggle' which was excellent.


I love the Space Trilogy
I tried reading this a couple of years ago and couldn't get into it. Might be time to try again.
My Lord and my God.
Ven. Matt Talbot, pray for Tom.

LausTibiChriste

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August 08, 2024, 11:50:16 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on August 07, 2024, 09:15:58 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on August 07, 2024, 05:21:45 PMI also like William Thomas Walsh. I never heard of Keegan.

English historian(+) who also happened to be Catholic.  Known for military historical works

Didn't realize Keegan was Catholic

There's a few military writers I'm keen on:

Keegan
Beevor
Evans
Kershaw


Zuehlke & Tim Cook for Canadian military

Pierre Berton for Canadian history in general; fantastic books
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