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Why Study The Past?: The Quest For The Historical Church by Rowan Williams

Marxism and Form by Fredric Jameson

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius

The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (Classics of Ancient China) by Roger T. Ames

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The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson

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The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart

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This seems to be a great place for grad students from all over to meet. I was introduced to librarything.com by a grad student; I'm back in school; you are -- I wonder how many of us there are?
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posted by medievalmama at 2:45 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2008

Did you get your handle from Trout Mask Replica?

posted by Revenant at 10:13 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2007

Wish you would review a few vols. Someone with a library like yours has to have valuable insights. You wouldn't even need to read them first; that's just for amateurs. Take any title you fancy at the time and fly with it.
Mazel tov
R.

posted by reuchlin at 11:43 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2007

Never worry, my friend, about buying more books than you read. I have been doing that my entire life, and what it means is that there are undiscovered corners of my own library any time I want to wander through any of the far too many bookshelves in my life. Librarything has been a real pleasure that way ... I enter books shelf by shelf, and I have rediscovered books I picked up years ago. I am not wasting far too much time reading books I bought decades ago at this point.

posted by arod at 10:13 pm (EST) on Jun 7, 2007

Alack!! What can one do after all of the grad programs have been exhausted? Just withdraw, and read everything one has catalogued.

posted by Naren559 at 9:17 pm (EST) on May 10, 2007

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