bibliophages, again
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bibliophages for the "school stories" theme:
A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
Demian by Hermen Hesse
The theme this time is religion. I can't make up my mind what to recommended for it. ^^; What I really want to do is to make a five-item paired book list, like this:
1. Catholicism in the Future
Maria Doria Russel, The Sparrow
Walter M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Anthropological Judaism
Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls
Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
3. Cults in the Future
Octavia E. Butler, Earthseed
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
4. Influential, Out of Copyright
St. Augustine, Confessions
Dante, Inferno
5. Fiction by Spiritual Self-Help Authors
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
*see also:
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Naomi Mitchensen, Travel Light <-- books that read similarly, but whose authors are not deluded.
*also see also:
50 Spiritual Classics.
BONUS. Hinduism in the Future
Roger Zelazny, Lords of Light*
Arthur C. Clark, Rendezvous with Rama*
*excluded because not finished
I would also really like to recommend "Death Comes to the Archbishop" by Willa Cather, but I haven't finished reading this either! I might try to finish before Sunday (the sign-up deadline).
bibliophages for the "school stories" theme:A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
Demian by Hermen Hesse
The theme this time is religion. I can't make up my mind what to recommended for it. ^^; What I really want to do is to make a five-item paired book list, like this:
1. Catholicism in the Future
Maria Doria Russel, The Sparrow
Walter M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Anthropological Judaism
Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls
Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
3. Cults in the Future
Octavia E. Butler, Earthseed
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
4. Influential, Out of Copyright
St. Augustine, Confessions
Dante, Inferno
5. Fiction by Spiritual Self-Help Authors
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
*see also:
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Naomi Mitchensen, Travel Light <-- books that read similarly, but whose authors are not deluded.
*also see also:
50 Spiritual Classics.
BONUS. Hinduism in the Future
Roger Zelazny, Lords of Light*
Arthur C. Clark, Rendezvous with Rama*
*excluded because not finished
I would also really like to recommend "Death Comes to the Archbishop" by Willa Cather, but I haven't finished reading this either! I might try to finish before Sunday (the sign-up deadline).