I had nothing to do and thought it would be fun to condense my list by taking some of the books off that we've done. It just gives us an idea about some of the options, among endless others, that we've mentioned doing. I'm really enjoying the odyssey by the way. "Homer, I bow to thee!" Hope you all are doing well.
Book Club list
~ War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
~ The Castle - Franz Kafka
~ Confessions of St. Augustine - St. Augustine
~ Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
~ The Brother’s Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevski
~ The Stranger or The Plague - Albert Camus
~ The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
~ Inferno - Dante
~ Walden - Henry David Thoreau
~ On the Road - Jack Kerouac
~ The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevski
~ Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
~ The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
~ The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
~ The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
~ The Geneology of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
~ The Sun also Rises or A Farewell to Arms (something Hemmingway) - Ernest Hemmingway
~ Existentialism is a humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
~ In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
~ Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
~ Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
~ Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
~ Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
~ Candide - Voltaire
~ Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
~ Alice’s adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
~ Through the looking glass - Lewis Carol
~ Fanny and Zoey - J.D. Salinger
~ The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
~ Lolita - Nabakov
~ Fear and Trembling/ Either/or - Soren Kierkegaard
~ The Federalist Papers - James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
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Maybe something to put on the list:
ReplyDeleteIn the Beginning Was the Word
Language, a God-Centered Approach
By Vern Poythress
I had read his Science and Hermeneutics which was vol 6 of the Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation series. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I've always found the analysis of meaning and understanding very fascinating. And since the book club is immersed in written language, it might be worth our while to look at it. Anyway, here's the blurb of recommendation for this one:
"This book represents a lifetime of theological thinking about the significance of language: about God's involvement with language, the nature of language itself from phonemes to literary genres, and the diverse ways humans interact with one another, and with God, through language. Here one finds not only a biblical but a systematic theology of language built on the insight that human language reflects the triune God, sometimes in surprising ways. And Poythress includes significant appendices analyzing language in postmodernism, translation theory, speech acts, deconstruction, and more."
- Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Blanchard Professor of Theology, Wheaton College
That sounds highly interesting to me. In addition, I'd also like to do Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (I believe someone else had mentioned it as well so I'm not alone). With so many great options, we can continue book club indefinately.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good one.
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