In what seems to me to be a much more fruitful challenge than the ALS ice water challenge, Ive been asked by Alex Toland to name the 10 books that have been most meaningful to me. Here they are, roughly in chronological order All of Hemingways good novels (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea) Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (shocking) Georgi Vins (a Baptist pastor in the Soviet Union) The New Testament (made a powerful impression on me at 19) C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Miracles John Gardner The Art of Fiction (Exercises: write three effective long sentences, each at least one full typed page (250 words), each involving a different emotion...) Stephen Ambrose Undaunted Courage (the most exhiliarating book Ive ever read) Michael Horton: Putting the Amazing Back into Grace, Where in the World is the Church? Larry Hurtado Lord Jesus Christ -- (the impact the life, death, and resurrection of Christ had on the earliest church) Michael Kruger The Heresy of Orthodoxy (with Andreas Kostenberger) and Canon Revisited (Then there are the chess books) To nominate 10 more people, Bethany Bugay, Jeremy Ryker, Zach Bugay, Nate Bugay, John Bugay, Beth Bugay, Jackie Bugay, Alex Bugay, Andrew Clover, Stephen Wolfe
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:57:35 +0000
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