Oh, no, I've been TAGGED!
| New dad Travis tagged Merlin and I to answer a bunch of questions about books. So... 1. One book that changed your life: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis This book made me realize that I could lose my soul and go to hell. If I hadn't read it, I might be there right now. Seriously. 2. One book that you've read more than once: The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton This book blew me away a decade ago and more recently about a year ago. It's not the easiest read, but don't give up on it. Just take small bites. 3. One book you'd want on a desert island: Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy The Deep Thoughts would go good with the sound of the waves crashing, I think, and it might make me laugh as I meditated on my plight and talked to Wilson. 4. One book that made you laugh: Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx The famed funny man's auto-biography. 5. One book that made you cry: Right Turns by Michael Medved During the part with his ancestors and relatives dying in their attempts to come over to America. Oy, was I bawling. 6. One book that you wish had been written: How to Stop What Will Happen on 9/11/2001 by Whoever 7. One book you wish had never been written: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fred Engels I'm sure there are lots that could be placed here -- that was just the first that came to mind. Probably because of Groucho above, no relation. 8. One book you're currently reading: The Grail Code by Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey 9. One book you've been meaning to read: Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) Sitting in my shelf, collecting dust while I blog about Harry Potter. 10. Now I'm supposed to "tag" people. Uhhhh.....this is like duck-duck-goose, right? Whitney John (Cubeland Mystic) Felicity Mr. Barlow JKR2 Thanks, Travis, that was actually fun. |
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Merlin said ... (July 31, 2006 11:26 PM)
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Cubeland Mystic said ... (August 02, 2006 11:35 AM)
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post a commentAm I in on the tag too? I'll have to think of the best answers and do it up (shouldn't be that hard, spending the next day or two packing up my books for the move), and then I'll have to figure out who to tag .. .Pauli already got all the goodies LOL)
1. One book that changed your life:
The Lord of the Rings (all the works).
2. One book that you've read more than once:
LOTR
3. One book you'd want on a desert island:
Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
4. One book that made you laugh:
Stumped me, I'll have to write one.
5. One book that made you cry:
One Poem, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot for it sacred sublime beauty.
6. One book that you wish had been written:
The books that I wish had been written I am currently writing.
7. One book you wish had never been written:
Naked Lunch
8. One book you're currently reading:
Welcome to Carmel. (discernment text for 3rd order Carmelites)
9. One book you've been meaning to read:
Seven Story Mountain (Merton), Assent of Mt. Carmel (St. John)
Mystic, good one with "Naked Lunch". Supposedly even Burroughs realized it was crap and the 'script was "rescued" from a hotel in Morroco by Ginsberg and some other beats....
Dude, you need to read something funny!!
oh my goodness! i've actually been 'tagged'. first time ever.
will put in some thought and post over at my blog.
(i think i'm actually nervous....)
jo
Well, I've never been tagged before, but then I didn't have a website until a few weeks ago. You asked for it:
1. One book that changed your life:
Not really “a” book, but The Rambler essays by Samuel Johnson because I read them at a time when I thought religion was for fools, and Johnson caught me off guard and changed my mind.
2. One book that you've read more than once:
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
3. One book you'd want on a desert island:
A Catholic Study Bible by God
4. One book that made you laugh:
Morte D’Urban by J. F. Powers
5. One book that made you cry:
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
6. One book that you wish had been written:
A seventh century AD book written in Arabic that defines Jesus Christ as God incarnate
7. One book you wish had never been written:
A seventh century AD book written in Arabic that defines Jesus Christ as a prophet
8. One book you're currently reading:
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
9. One book you've been meaning to read:
Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly
well i 'done it'...
it's over at my blog.
Felicity, wow, great list. Dittoes on "Mr. Blue" and "Angela's Ashes" - oy, that's rough. Here's to Sam Johnson catchin' you off guard!
I guess I should have tossed out the Bible as a selection -- someone else did further up the chain, but hey, works for me.
I am supposed to tag someone and post on my blog? Didn't understand. There are not many monks at the Cubeland Monastary. A lot of them go to the ballet at lunch time.