What are you currently reading?

Started by Francisco Suárez, December 26, 2012, 09:48:56 PM

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Michael Wilson

Thanks Pheo!
Robert Jordan was also a Mormon, and I wonder if the theory behind his series "The Wheel of Time" i.e. Endlessly recurring cycles of history repeating themselves has something to do with Mormon theology?
"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

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The Dragon Reborn (1991) by Robert Jordan.
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Maximilian

Quote from: Maximilian on June 21, 2014, 01:20:11 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 21, 2014, 11:41:16 AM

Robert Jordan was also a Mormon,


Interesting, I didn't know that.

Actually, after further research on google, there is no evidence that Robert Jordan was a mormon. Perhaps you are confusing him with Brandon Sanderson who concluded the series after Robert Jordan died?

Clare

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Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson. Very accurate for something written in 1907.
The Dawn of All is worth reading too.

QuoteIN a former book, called Lord of the World, I attempted to sketch the kind of developments a hundred years hence which, I thought, might reasonably be expected if the present lines of what is called "modern thought" were only prolonged far enough; and I was informed repeatedly that the effect of the book was exceedingly depressing and discouraging to optimistic Christians. In the present book I am attempting—also in parable form—not in the least to withdraw anything that I said in the former, but to follow up the other lines instead, and to sketch—again in parable—the kind of developments, about sixty years hence which, I think, may reasonably be expected should the opposite process begin, and ancient thought (which has stood the test of centuries, and is, in a very remarkable manner, being "rediscovered" by persons even more modern than modernists) be prolonged instead. We are told occasionally by moralists that we live in very critical times, by which they mean that they are not sure whether their own side will win or not. In that sense no times can ever be critical to Catholics, since Catholics are never in any kind of doubt as to whether or no their side will win. But from another point of view every period is a critical period, since every period has within itself the conflict of two irreconcilable forces. It has been for the sake of tracing out the kind of effects that, it seemed to me, each side would experience in turn, should the other, at any rate for a while, become dominant, that I have written these two books.

are these intended to be read in sequence?
I'm not sure. Several years went between my readings of them. It might be interesting to read them one after the other though.
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Pheo

They do make an interesting contrast, but they don't have to be read in sequence.
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"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor.
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Michael Wilson

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Quote from: Maximilian on June 21, 2014, 08:56:24 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on June 21, 2014, 01:20:11 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 21, 2014, 11:41:16 AM

Robert Jordan was also a Mormon,


Interesting, I didn't know that.



Actually, after further research on google, there is no evidence that Robert Jordan was a mormon. Perhaps you are confusing him with Brandon Sanderson who concluded the series after Robert Jordan died?
My bad!  I wikied up his name and it states that he described himself a "High Church Episcopalian"  and also a Freemanson.
QuoteHe began writing in 1977. He was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He described himself as a "High Church" Episcopalian[6] and received communion more than once a week.[7] He lived with his wife Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor (currently with Tor Books; she was also Jordan's editor) in a house built in 1797.[8] Responding to queries on the similarity of some of the concepts in his Wheel of Time books with Freemasonry concepts, Jordan admitted that he was a Freemason. However, "like his father and grandfather," he preferred not to advertise, possibly because of the negative propaganda against Freemasonry. In his own words, "no man in this country should feel in danger because of his beliefs."[9]
"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

Larry

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Kaesekopf

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"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor.

Great book!

I have this book.  Still working through it.

What makes it so great?
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Larry

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"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor.

Great book!

I have this book.  Still working through it.

What makes it so great?

It's a good story, well written, with interesting characters. I read the whole thing in one afternoon. It is bizarre though(as most of Flannery's stuff is), so it's not for all tastes.
"At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love."-St. John of the Cross

Older Salt

Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 22, 2014, 01:59:42 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 22, 2014, 01:51:07 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on June 22, 2014, 09:09:13 AM
"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor.

Great book!

I have this book.  Still working through it.

What makes it so great?
The dialogue between characters and the protagonist arrival at a realization of his nothingness without Grace.

Also it helps if you live in the American south to see the works poignancy, and sense of irony.
Stay away from the near occasion of sin

Unless one is deeply attached to the Blessed Virgin Mary, now in time, it impossible to attain salvation.

Older Salt

Quote from: Larry on June 22, 2014, 03:40:11 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 22, 2014, 01:59:42 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 22, 2014, 01:51:07 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on June 22, 2014, 09:09:13 AM
"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor.

Great book!

I have this book.  Still working through it.

What makes it so great?

It's a good story, well written, with interesting characters. I read the whole thing in one afternoon. It is bizarre though(as most of Flannery's stuff is), so it's not for all tastes.
It is bizarre, but not alien to reality.

I live in the South and have seen people like "Haze" quite often.

For my money the best American short story writer ever.
Stay away from the near occasion of sin

Unless one is deeply attached to the Blessed Virgin Mary, now in time, it impossible to attain salvation.

Gardener

I've not read much of Flannery O'Connor's work, but what I have read I have enjoyed. I do agree one is better off with having familiarity with the South.
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