Poll: What book should the Korrektiv Summer Reading Klub read next?

June 27, 2008 by Rufus McCain at 6:06 am

Vote early, vote often. Or add a suggestion in the comments. Our goal is to choose a book by the end of summer. View a pie chart of the results here.

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Quin Finnegan says

June 25, 2008 at 6:29 pm

I’ve already committed myself to the Kirekegaard biography, but I’m happy to go along with anything else for the Klub. I like the idea of Violence and the Sacred, though, I have to say.

Looking over my copy last night, I saw that I already had quite a few questions penciled in the margins. Maybe someone could answer them.

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Ashley says

June 27, 2008 at 5:45 am

I would read “Message in a Bottle”.

And, BTW, I hate to do this to you (especially when you are currently mad at me), but you have been tagged.

It’s kinda silly, but I don’t have a ton of blogging buddies so it’s your spousal duty to participate.

(please)

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Matthew Lickona says

June 27, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Guardini. And for pity’s sake, not Lickona.

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Rufus McCain says

June 27, 2008 at 2:55 pm

I’m glad Guardini got a vote. But let’s not be too quick to dismiss this upstart Lickona.

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Cubeland Mystic says

June 29, 2008 at 1:01 am

I once saw a photo of Lickona pitching a tent above the tan cliffs of Carlsbad. Just sayin.

Have you all read, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, or Silence by Endo? The later a film is being made, and I’ve always wanted to discuss it.

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Rufus McCain says

June 29, 2008 at 8:20 am

I picked up Silence about ten years ago, maybe, but I don’t think I ever finished it. Maybe I will before the movie comes out.

Not familiar with The Master and Margarita. Looks interesting.

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C.S. Lewis says

June 29, 2008 at 8:29 am

Any of these.

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Quin Finnegan says

June 30, 2008 at 12:31 am

Cube ~

I’ve read M&M at least three times. Obviously, I think it’s a great book, and would love to take it up for the summer. A film has been made of it as well, a couple actually, including a Polish mini-series. The first episode of which wasn’t bad. And Silence is also great, as are a number of other things Endo wrote. I’d love to read that one again too.

Clive ~

I’d be up for the Aeneid. I think it would be interesting to read that along with Girard. In fact, I just had a mind-boggling insight for a dissertation idea: Rome according to Vergil as civilization founded on the violence of men, and Rome according to Augustine as civilization founded on the peace of Christ.

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