any good Catholic fiction?

[Lounge Daddy]

i know about "red hat" and the McFarlain books...
but - anything else?

[Era Might]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898706904/qid=1125896275/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-7115720-7831917?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Here[/url] and [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970262124/qid=1125896306/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-7115720-7831917?v=glance&s=books"]Here[/url]

[philothea]

There's [url="http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/ad_excerpt.htm"]The Apocalypse Door[/url], a hard-boiled detective story with a modern day Templar.

There are, of course, many good works of fiction by Catholic authors, with Catholic themes, but not explicitly about the religion itself. Are you interested in any of those? Also, do you have a genre preference?

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='philothea' date='Sep 5 2005, 01:10 AM']There's [url="http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/ad_excerpt.htm"]The Apocalypse Door[/url],  a hard-boiled detective story with a modern day Templar. 

There are, of course, many good works of fiction by Catholic authors, with Catholic themes, but not explicitly about the religion itself.  Are you interested in any of those?  Also, do you have a genre preference?
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i loved the James Bond books by John Gardner
tom clancy is ok (a bit too detailed)
i am reading Ted Bell right now --- Hawke
pretty cool stuff

and i did enjoy McFarlain books - though trajic at the end

[Lounge Daddy]

maybe im looking for a Catholic hero

[Asher]

[quote name='Era Might' date='Sep 4 2005, 11:59 PM'][url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898706904/qid=1125896275/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-7115720-7831917?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Here[/url] and [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970262124/qid=1125896306/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-7115720-7831917?v=glance&s=books"]Here[/url]
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I was going to say the same thing. I hadn't actually read them, but I heard from sources... that they were amazing and such... so I am recommending them as well

[philothea]

I will keep thinking!

[jmjtina]

There should definitly be some kind of novel that has a hero in them. I like really cool fiction. Wait, I think I'm talking about comics...... oh well.

There is also [url="http://www.revolutionoflove.com/marketplace/arms_of_love.htm"]Arms of Love. [/url]

[goldenchild17]

Not exactly what you're looking for prolly, but Louis De Wohl's books are good.

[jmjtina]

of course I've always loved LOTR. always.

always and forever.

I love technology.

always and forever.

okay, it's waaaaaay too early in the morning.

[Fides_et_Ratio]

Chesterton.... (geez, I can't believe no one mentioned him!)

The Man Who Was Thursday
Father Brown series
The Ball and the Cross
etc.

[Colleen]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Sep 5 2005, 10:22 AM']Chesterton.... (geez, I can't believe no one mentioned him!)

The Man Who Was Thursday
Father Brown series
The Ball and the Cross
etc.
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You beat me to it! : :

Links: [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140183884/qid=1125935084/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/104-5282828-9183921?v=glance&s=books"]The Man Who Was Thursday[/url]
[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898703654/qid=1125935084/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-5282828-9183921?v=glance&s=books"]The Club of qwerty Trades : The Man Who Was Thursday : The Ball and the Cross : The Napoleon of Notting Hill[/url]
[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014009766X/qid=1125935180/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-5282828-9183921?v=glance&s=books"]The Complete Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery) [/url]

[Laudate_Dominum]

I was gonna says those yesterday, but I got distracted.

[Totus Tuus]

MICHAEL O'BRIEN. Period.

[Old_Joe]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0781805503/qid=1125983079/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1376130-5973561?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Quo Vadis?[/url] is a really good book about Christian persecution under the Roman emperor Nero. It's deals specifically with one man's conversion from Roman paganism.

[missionseeker]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Sep 5 2005, 11:22 AM']Chesterton.... (geez, I can't believe no one mentioned him!)

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How about C.S. Lewis??
Niamh {pronounced Niav} and the Hermit by Emily Snyder
The Robe is a good one




My parentheses button isn't working

[Cam42]

Michael O'Brien is good.
Ralph McInerney is good.

You guys are missing the boat though....

How about

The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
Windswept House by Malachi Martin
Pierced By The Sword by Bud McFarlane, Jr.
Conclave by Greg Tobin
Council by Greg Tobin

[Era Might]

Any interview you might enjoy:

[url="http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/tpowers_intvw_sept05.asp"]http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features200...ntvw_sept05.asp[/url]

[Socrates]

There's plenty of good Catholic literature.

Tolkien (not explicitly religious, but contains a strong Catholic worldview)

G.K. Chesterton (though I've mostly read his non-fiction essays)

Russell Kirk (I'm more into his works of political philosophy, though he also wrote fiction - mostly ghost stories - with Catholic spiritual themes)

T.S. Eliot (Can't stand his stuff, though)

And plenty I haven't read though others are huge fans:

Evelyn Waugh (my sister wrote her thesis on him)
Flannery O'Connor
Walker Percy

And there's plenty more that I can't remeber off-hand.

I don't like "literature" that prosyletizes - (as in "this is a story written to give a good Catholic message") - that's like cheesy "Christian music."
(I read a little of Bud McFarlane and thought it was really cheesy.)

C.S. Lewis was Anglican, not Catholic, though most of what he writes is not contrary to the Catholic Faith.

[God Conquers]

[quote name='jmjtina' date='Sep 5 2005, 01:40 AM']There should definitly be some kind of novel that has a hero in them. I like really cool fiction. Wait, I think I'm talking about comics...... oh well.

There is also [url="http://www.revolutionoflove.com/marketplace/arms_of_love.htm"]Arms of Love. [/url]
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Wooohooo!!!!

Some of the Characters in this book are based on my friends!!!!

Ditto what everyone else has said.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh specifically is a great book.