Resurrexi Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 List your favorite fiction books that do not contain any material that would not harm one's Catholic faith. I'll start: Evangeline The Scarlet Pimpernel The Phantom of the Opera The Aeneid
Knight of the Holy Rosary Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 'The Restless Flame' - Louis de Wohl
RezaMikhaeil Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 The Miraculous St. Mina the Greatest Egyptian Martyr to ever live - Coptic Church Growing up X - Illyasa Shabaaz The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands - Dr. Laura Schlessinger Why I'm a Muslim - Asma Hasan Boundaries - Townsend & Cloud Princess - Jean Sasson The Incarnation of our Lord - St. Cyril the Great Too many to list but these are good Reza
TheOliverOrder88 Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 (edited) Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky The Confessions by Saint Augustine The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner Lord of the Rings Trilogy Dante's Divine Comedy The Violent Bear it Away by O'Connor I'm kinda all over the place. Edited March 17, 2007 by TheOliverOrder88
N/A Gone Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 he said fiction... I dont read much fiction, but probably Screwtape letters. I stick to the nonfiction dusty theology books
Maggyie Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 My all-time favorites: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky (warning, has some stuff that is not flattering to Catholics) Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Colleen Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 Mansfield Park The Iliad The Man Who Was Thursday
onathing1 Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 [u]Books[/u] The Iliad Oedipus Rex The Inferno The Moonstone Vanity Fair Lilith Frankenstein Dracula The Invisible Man The Phantom of the Opera A Clockwork Orange A Walk to Remember LOTR Trilogy The Princess Bride The Screwtape Letters Jane Eyre The Complex Infastructure Known as the Female Mind Something Wicked This Way Comes The Shining [u]Anything by these authors[/u] Frank Peretti Louisa May Alcott Edgar Allen Poe L.M. Montgomery Shakespeare There are more I just can't think of them right now.
jmjtina Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Don't Let the Pigeon drive the bus! Don't let the Pigeon stay up late! The Pigeon finds a hot dog! Yertle the Turtle The Lorax Dory Story NO! David! David Goes to school Gloria A Pizza the size of the sun It's raining pigs and noodles The Rough-Faced Girl The Princess and the Kiss A Little Princess The Squire and the Scroll Wayside School Narnia LOTR Jane Eyre Huckleberry Finn Three Musketeers The Screwtape letters Nancy Drew Hardy Boys I LOVE picture books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the list goes on and on and on..........
EAnn246 Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 oh wow. I love to read. Here's some of my current favorites. A Light in August- Faulkner The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway Jane Eyre Franny & Zooey- JD Salinger The Bell Jar The Pillowman- Martin McDonough (it's a play) Betrayal Age of Innocence The Professor's House A Personal History- Katherine Graham 1984 Favorite Authors: William Carlos Williams (poetry) Langston Hughes (poetry) JD Salinger Hemingway
CrossCuT Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 (edited) [size=1]I dont read alot... Pride and Prejudice Rocket Boys Shakespearian Plays [/size] Edited March 24, 2007 by CrossCuT
Maggyie Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 I see that several people like Faulkner... I always had trouble reading him. The Sound and the Fury was a hard, hard slog, although rewarding.
EAnn246 Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 [quote name='Maggie' post='1218258' date='Mar 24 2007, 11:03 AM']I see that several people like Faulkner... I always had trouble reading him. The Sound and the Fury was a hard, hard slog, although rewarding.[/quote] I'm in a class on Hemingway/Faulkner this semester. We haven't read [i][/i]The Sound and the Fury[i][/i] yet... I do agree that he is hard to get through... but I find it rewarding and amazing at the end.
Azriel Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Not a big Faulkner fan - like James Joyce even less. Although its been a long time -The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia
iggyjoan Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 [quote name='jmjtina' post='1217892' date='Mar 23 2007, 07:41 PM']Don't Let the Pigeon drive the bus! The Pigeon finds a hot dog! NO! David! Wayside School[/quote] OMG THOSE ARE LIKE MYFAVORITE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THAT SILLY PIGEON!!! uh Maximum Ride by James Patterson is excellent... Harry Potter is always good.. (JK Rowling) Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins made me almost cry it was sooo good (even though it's not really a sad book)
nleyetn Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis Reading The Chronicles of Narnia right now.
Totus Tuus Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Religious Fiction: A Cry of Stone - Michael O'Brien All of Michael O'Brien's books The Glorious Folly - Louis De Wohl Joan of Arc - Mark Twain (fiction based on exact history, as it is recorded) The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Totus Tuus Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 [quote name='Maggie' post='1215659' date='Mar 18 2007, 10:34 PM']The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery[/quote] Absolutely. That is a n awesome book!
stlmom Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I give lots of Tommie DePaola's books to my little nieces and nephews--Strega Nona is a favorite!
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