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Start with the Greeks (As in Oedipus the King)

>>7465290
how does that book play a part in psychology? Would you mind elaborating?

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Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan
William James is good too

The Greeks are required reading for pretty much everything. Read them

Ibsen.

Knut Hamsun - Hunger

Norwegian Wood

>not muh wookies
So they want blacks to watch it, give them a break. Also the EU was shit, wasn't it? You're the kinda dork who'd know about it, you tell me.

>>7465195
what is eu

>>7465242
European Union

You go, anon!

This was a sincere post.

Also post some of your shitty poetry.

I know that feel. Though I tend to crank out several at once and not even review them.

Well let's see some!

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>Saramago joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969 and remained a member until the end of his life.[11] He was a self-confessed pessimist

when he wasn't tipping his fedora he was writing hamfisted political bullshit

>>7464867
the cave was good, at least the last 50 pages

>>7464867
Blindness

>>7464702
A MAP OF LIFE, by F J Sheed,
(short book, upper 6th onwards)
Truly attractive, showing that with faith reason is not suspended but the opposite. One discovers the joy of applying reason to the foundation of one's faith and, perhaps for the first time, of thinking through the content of the faith and its consequences in everyday life. A great read for anyone, but especially the younger (late teens to twenty-something, third level students etc.). And all the more so if you're tending to distance yourself from your Faith because it seems all feelings and sentiment, built on feelings and sentiment, and expressed in non-sensical rites and formulae. While focused on reasons for believing in general, it does draw out in a lucid, if introductory way, how the Christian and Catholic Faith does not contradict reason but finds sure foundations in reason. (From a
review in the Amazon-UK website)
Available at Angelus Press, USA.

THEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS, by F J Sheed,
ISBN 7220 7288 0
(short book, university onwards)
This book expounds the Church’s main dogmas as simply and as compellingly as accuracy allows. Beginning with the reasons why the ordinary man, woman or teenager should study theology at all, it goes through the key doctrines: Spirit, Mystery, God’s infinity and man’s creation from nothing; the Trinity, man’s fall, the Incarnation and Redemption; the Church and Our Lady, its first members; grace the sacraments, the next life and the end of the world. An excellent and necessary read.
Available at Angelus Press, USA.

THEOLOGY AND SANITY, by F J Sheed, (1945)
ISBN 0-7220-7820-X
(350 pages, late university, post-grad.)
Brilliant synthesis of the Catholic conception and understanding of life. This book is a development of Sheed’s Theology for Beginners. The author portrays in a wonderfully simple and in places humorous style the essential and irrefutable reasonableness of the Catholic Faith. He also shows how the Catholic should view and understand his life and life in general, in the light of the truths he believes.
The book is a masterpiece of logic, clarity, simplicity and common sense, a great classic for the modern world.

>>7464702
THE BELIEF OF CATHOLICS, by Ronald Knox (1939)
(short book, lower 6th onwards)
A succinct, precise and unpretentious presentation of the belief of Catholics. In his gentle, quiet and unassuming style, Knox calmly exposes the essential truths of the faith in answer to the most common objections. It is as if the book were specifically written for self.

TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST, by F J Sheed
(400 pages, 6th form onwards)
A study on the Gospels. Ultimately, the knowledge of the faith is the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The greater our knowledge of Christ, therefore, the deeper our faith. As the Gospels can seem a little dry to read, this book is most useful.
Available at Angelus Press, USA.

THE MOTHER, by Cardinal Mindszenty
(short book, for 6th formers onwards)
A beautiful, poetical description of the treasures of Motherhood. A very difficult book to find!

THE SOCIAL RIGHTS OF CHRIST THE KING, by Denis Fahey. D.D.
(short book, university onwards)
Written under Pius XI, in the light of his encyclical Quas Primas on the kingship of Christ over civil society, this book is a simple and clear exposition of this essential doctrine, which since Vatican II and the advent of Religious Liberty, is denied. It is a necessary read, since there can be no true understanding of the concept of Civil Society without reference to the Kingship of Our Lord. Secular society, though so common, is an aberration.

NEWMAN AGAINST THE LIBERALS
ISBN: 0 85172 720 4
(600 pages, from 6th form onwards)
Michael Davis here presents a selection of Newman’s parochial sermons before he became a Catholic. Newman was an acclaimed preacher, and it was in particular the preaching contained in this volume that gave the impetus to the Oxford Movement he foundered, without realising it! With his amazing insight and understanding of human nature, using his profound knowledge of the Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church, Newman presents the beliefs of Catholic doctrine with clarity, precision and exactitude, but in a manner applicable by all to daily life. Newman deplored and fought against the liberal faction in the Anglican Church of his day. In many ways, his Church of England is comparable to the present state of the Catholic Church of Rome, imbued as it is with liberalism and a love of secularism. Written in pure English style, with his usual mastery of language, Newman smashes one by one the misconceptions and errors of those favourable to the new ideas. Yet the tone is not
polemic. Newman writes to convert rather than refute. His love of the truth and piety for Our Lord shows through ever page. A profoundly learned, uplifting, fervent and refreshing exposition of the truths necessary for salvation put forth in a quiet but forceful manner. A wonderful read!
This book is a compilation of sermons. It thereby has the advantage of being able to be read on and off. One doesnot feel obliged to plough through it in one go.

>>7464702
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST, by Thomas a Kempis
No comment is needed here. This small book of piety and learning presents the essence of Christian aesthetical and mystical teaching. Every Catholic should be familiar with its counsels.

THEY HAVE UNCROWNED HIM, by Archbishop Lefebvre
(University onwards)
A compilation of conferences given to seminarians, on the errors of Vatican II and the Conciliar Church. His Lordship revised his work in order to edit it as a single book. In the light of the great modern encyclicals of those popes prior to Vatican II, his Lordship demonstrates in detail
the fundamental disagreement of the Conciliar theories, in particular that of Religious Liberty, with the constant magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church. His exposition is clear and irrefutable, and most apt to any youngster who wishes to explain to a friend his or her reasons for refusing the Conciliar Church.
Available at Angelus Press, along with many other titles of the Archbishop.

THE SEVEN SWEET BLESSINGS OF CHRIST, by Gerald Vann, OP
ISBN: 0-918477-55-7
(for all, 6th formers and adults)
Formerly titled Divine Pity, Gerald Vann presents and theological work on the relation between the seven sacraments, the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost and the eight beatitudes. In a studious manner, closely following St Thomas Aquinas, he describes the growth of the spiritual life as the fruit grace and the consequence of the reception of the sacraments, etc.
The value of this book lies not only in the detailed study the author makes of the spiritual life, but also in the simplicity with which he sets out the path to sanctity. One often thinks that sanctity is impossible. Youngsters are tempted to think avoidance of serious sin is sufficient to be a good Catholic. This book shows how sanctity is attainable, and that by the ordinary means Christ has left to the Church (sacraments and gifts) and the practise of the beatitudes. An uplifting and consoling read.
Available at Angelus Press.

SOCIETY AND SANITY, by F J Sheed
(University)
Companion to Theology and Sanity, this book sets out Christian principles on topics such as marriage, family and state. The book is one of the clearest explanations of how society should be, written in Sheed’s easygoing and wonderfully clear style.

>>7464686
you're not only a pleb, but you may also be retarded

>>7464686
>lacked a good deal of depth in character
what?

>>7464686
American lit is shallow. Deal with it.

>>7464651
Garbage. Pretty much a pandering to "yogi"-culture/mentality. For children who want to settle for superficial happiness and meaning and sound like they have it all figured out.

>>7464663
never read it/10

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>>7464671
I did though, are you upset because I don't agree with you :^) fuck off twat. Don't ask for opinions if you can't handle what you don't wanna hear

not him, but bump out of interest

>>7464643
Norse is barbarism for plebs
Celtic is for patricians

>>7464643
Hai, Icelander here, there is this book called Snorra-Edda written by Snorri Sturluson. It goes through basicly the whole of the mythology alongside some stories of mainly Thor and Loki

>24
>haven't written anything since poetry class junior year of college

>>7464393
Read Zadie's White Teeth.

she was 24 when she published it

/r/ing that huge list of famous authors who first published by 25 or earlier

Fuck off.

>>7464305
That's not very kind.

Depends. Will your analysis of the text get any better?

Trump was handsome back in the day.

>>7463860
If this is truly the case, the 21st century has been doing pitifully thus far.

>>7463860
Oh and this was published in 1987. :/

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>>7463794
>when you realise Harry Potter is an allegory for post war social democracy

>>7463794
>When you realize Harry Potter is intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humour.

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>When you all are reading Harry Potter

I picked up The Name of the Rose thinking it would be something like Mann or Hesse. What makes it postmodern? does it have some kind of zany time travel?

no, and i don't like how plebs try to pretend he's any better than other pleb shit like dan brown.

>>7463779
Meta concepts, mostly. The key to understanding the entire historical mystery in the novel revolves around Aristotle's second book of Poetics, on comedy, which has been lost to time.

>>7463762
shh....

>>7463762
Oh shit, you caught me, I'm the shill.

Good job, faggot.

i'm just here to shitpost.
i do it for free.
i didn't have a hot pocket today but i had one yesterday.