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Purgatorio by Dante. After reading Inferno and then reading Purgatorio, the mercy of purgatory is really obvious and yes I know it is fiction.
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I read the trilogy a while ago, but as I remember, the Inferno and Purgatorio were very, very good, but the Paradiso was kinda hard to get through. Still worth it, though.

(BTW, the paperback copies I bought had both the original Italian and English versions. In addition, they were wonderfully annotated. Made the reading all the more enjoyable and understandable!)
 
I’m re-reading Edward Feser’s “The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism” and reading Joseph Owens’ “An Elementary Christian Metaphysics.”
 
“Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery,” edited by Regina Hansen. Just got released in an inexpensive Kindle edition.
 
Aristotle - a summary of his works.

I love that name. Aristotle… and have decided I’m going to name one of my children this - if God ever blesses me with children that is!
 
I plan on starting The Help one of these days. But maybe I’ll read something else first.
 
Just finished “Who Killed Homer” Very good and well written critique of our university system in general and classicists in specific.
 
cthulhubryan said:
Just finished “Who Killed Homer” Very good and well written critique of our university system in general and classicists in specific.
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That sounds right up my alley! Could you tell me a little more about it? (My reading list is long and I won’t be able to get to this anytime soon; what am I missing?)
 
markeverett49 said:
That sounds right up my alley! Could you tell me a little more about it? (My reading list is long and I won’t be able to get to this anytime soon; what am I missing?)
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The Authors (Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath) write about how higher education has gotten away from teaching and spend more and more time and money on faculty trips and junkets rather than teaching. They spend a good portion of the book speaking of what the Greeks have to offer modern (1998) America and it is good reading. They provide an alternative plan that removes most tenure and requires professors to teach 6-8 classes per semester and also would require faculty exchanges between universities and cutting the time allowed for getting a PhD to 4 years.

They also propose a German style (they do not call it that) secondary school system that is more like Community Colleges/Trade Schools for most and full on college for those needing it.

One of their major complaints (and I agree with them) is that college is not meant to be a place where you go to learn a skill but rather a place where you learn to think and reason maturely.
 
Starting “Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic”

My fair and balanced book was a few books ago and was “As Goes Texas” a NY Times slam of southern republic educational ideas. It was interesting if Gail Collins did get some facts wrong.
 
cthulhubryan said:
The Authors (Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath) write about how higher education has gotten away from teaching and spend more and more time and money on faculty trips and junkets rather than teaching. They spend a good portion of the book speaking of what the Greeks have to offer modern (1998) America and it is good reading. They provide an alternative plan that removes most tenure and requires professors to teach 6-8 classes per semester and also would require faculty exchanges between universities and cutting the time allowed for getting a PhD to 4 years.

They also propose a German style (they do not call it that) secondary school system that is more like Community Colleges/Trade Schools for most and full on college for those needing it.

One of their major complaints (and I agree with them) is that college is not meant to be a place where you go to learn a skill but rather a place where you learn to think and reason maturely.
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Thanks, Bryan. I’ll add that book to my list of things to read.
 
cthulhubryan said:
The Authors (Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath) write about how higher education has gotten away from teaching and spend more and more time and money on faculty trips and junkets rather than teaching. They spend a good portion of the book speaking of what the Greeks have to offer modern (1998) America and it is good reading. They provide an alternative plan that removes most tenure and requires professors to teach 6-8 classes per semester and also would require faculty exchanges between universities and cutting the time allowed for getting a PhD to 4 years.

They also propose a German style (they do not call it that) secondary school system that is more like Community Colleges/Trade Schools for most and full on college for those needing it.

One of their major complaints (and I agree with them) is that college is not meant to be a place where you go to learn a skill but rather a place where you learn to think and reason maturely.
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Victor Davis Hanson should be required reading for all! I will put this on my list of books to buy. When I win LOTTO I my book budget will not cramp my style as my current book budget does.
 
I just bought Witness to Hope, but the thing is so dang big that I’m afraid to start reading it!

I really want to get Prayer by Hans Urs von Balthasar.
 
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien. I think this is about the 8th or 9th time I’ve read it, but it never gets old. Plus, seeing all the new pictures from the upcoming movie has made me want to visit Middle Earth again.
 
“He leadeth me” by Father Walter Ciszek SJ (1904-1984)

He was an american priest who spent 23 years in Russia (from 1930 to 1963). He was falsely accused of being a ‘Vatican spy’. He spent 5 years in total isolation in a cell in Lubianka and 15 years working as a prisoner in Siberia. :eek:

This book contains his extraordinary spiritual reflections, inspired by what he lived and endured.

It is one of the best spiritual books I have ever read! 👍

Certainly not for ‘speed reading’. :dts:

It is one of those rare gems where you find such valuable teachings and truths, you wish you could engrave them forever in your heart and brain. ❤️:idea:

I looked him up on internet and found out he is a candidate for canonization!

If you would like to know more about this saintly priest, go to: www.ciszek.org
 
From Atheism to Catholicism: How Scientists and Philosophers Led Me to the Truth by Kevin Vost
 
Just started CS Lewis’ Space Triliogy with Out of The Silent Planet.

God bless
 
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