tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post7316247866501262103..comments2024-03-25T02:16:16.247-07:00Comments on Christ the Tao: The 100 Best Books? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-24475143302896426022017-03-11T12:53:56.597-08:002017-03-11T12:53:56.597-08:00Bill: I shall keep this spring silent by not allow...Bill: I shall keep this spring silent by not allowing Rachel Carton to disturb its peace. David B Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04029133398946303654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-61657754130185476712017-03-11T12:52:13.058-08:002017-03-11T12:52:13.058-08:00MC: Your second full sentence answers the challeng...MC: Your second full sentence answers the challenge in the third. I found First Circle far and away Solzhenitsyn's best. Lord of the Flies would be a worthy alternative, perhaps. Haven't read that Hemmingway, though I have given him several other chances, thanks also for the suggestion. David B Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04029133398946303654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-81691328849690007562017-03-05T08:34:39.108-08:002017-03-05T08:34:39.108-08:00"Also Silent Spring (probably)" Only &q..."Also Silent Spring (probably)" Only "probably" for a piece of fiction masquerading as scientific fact. A book that set the "environmental" movement on it's present course of power over truth. BillThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07066394086681663673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-1967346402789720902017-03-04T21:17:21.735-08:002017-03-04T21:17:21.735-08:00Geez David. This list is like asking which is your...Geez David. This list is like asking which is your favourite child. Why 3 books by Solzhenitsyn? Ivan Denisovich was the best of them all. And where was William Golding? I think any Evangelical in a building program (Mark Driscoll, Gospel For Asia) should have to read "The Spire". And any established church should have to read "The Lord of the Flies". And yes, keep "The Lion..." by Lewis. And if there is any truth about the nature of being a man, it is in Hemmingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis M...". Bam!!!the mediocrecommissionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999555227727192439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-85909420534557318982017-02-28T20:18:17.205-08:002017-02-28T20:18:17.205-08:00Vikram Seth is an Indian writer who writes in Engl...Vikram Seth is an Indian writer who writes in English. His doorstop of a novel, <i>A Suitable Boy</i>, manages to span the gamut of post-independence India in a single volume. The plot revolves around a family's resolve to find "a suitable boy" for their eligible daughter to marry. In the process, we are treated to an amazing panoramic tour of quite literally every aspect of Indian society - its history, its hopes and aspirations, its contradictions and shortcomings, the uneasy coexistence of Hindu and Muslim, tradition and modernity, family and nation. I've never read a book quite like it. Yes, it is Indian to its core, but it somehow manages to attain to universality in its outlook.<br /><br />At 1474 pages, it might seem a bit daunting. But let me assure you, when I finished it, I (literally) cried because it wasn't longer. I didn't want it to end.B. Prokophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548980245078214688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-6794465233945388832017-02-26T17:21:16.259-08:002017-02-26T17:21:16.259-08:00I like A Canticle For Liebowitz, and That Hideous ...I like A Canticle For Liebowitz, and That Hideous Strength, but couldn't see them that high -- Peralandra is on my list, you'll notice. I suppose I could substitute the trilogy for the one. Have only read individual poems or an essay or two from Eliot, and have never heard of Vikram Seth. Thanks for the suggestions. David B Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04029133398946303654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-44620984748496395632017-02-25T18:46:06.965-08:002017-02-25T18:46:06.965-08:00Any list of the Top 100 Books that does not includ...Any list of the Top 100 Books that does not include T.S. Eliot's <em>Four Quartets</em> is not worthy of the name. Vikram Seth's <em>A Suitable Boy</em> ought to at least be considered, along with the libretto to Wagner's Ring Operas. I don't think I saw Malory's <em>Le Morte D'Arthur</em> anywhere on that list, but again, it simply must be on there. I would keep C.S. Lewis, but replace his Narnia books with his Deep Heaven Trilogy. And speaking of fantasy/science fiction, Walter M. Miller's <em>A Canticle For Liebowitz</em> is surely destined to grow and grow in recognition as the years pass. Put him on the list!B. Prokophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548980245078214688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-29033973121438199192017-02-22T11:12:17.922-08:002017-02-22T11:12:17.922-08:00I have no argument at all with that.I have no argument at all with that.sparrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14538250080606088096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-17482145247485960352017-02-22T07:44:21.123-08:002017-02-22T07:44:21.123-08:00OK. Well, I'll put it at the top, then. War ...OK. Well, I'll put it at the top, then. War and Peace is great, but even Tolstoy recognized he had a long way to go to catch up to the Sermon on the Mount. He cut out the miracles in his NT, like Jefferson, but that only demonstrates the partiality of his own experience. David B Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04029133398946303654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071813.post-81267608207913333572017-02-22T07:41:40.792-08:002017-02-22T07:41:40.792-08:00David, the Bible is already on the list: number 41...David, the Bible is already on the list: number 41.sparrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14538250080606088096noreply@blogger.com