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Were I to suggest something, it would not be a philosophical work. Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton comes to mind. Or The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day. Or Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor. Or End of the Affair by Graham Greene. I like Walker Percy, but I am not sure you ... I have a first edition of The Seven Storey Mountain---it's one of my most valued (note I do not say "valuable") books. It was given to me when I was about 17 by a family friend who had once contemplated a monastic life for himself. He was a childhood friend of my parents, but I related very ... Wow, sounds really good. I've read some of Merton's writing, but not that one. The Seven Storey Mountain is going right onto the top of my TBR list. Thanks for the review. 99. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. this is an old favorite that I hadn't read for a good 30, probably more, years. It's Merton's autobiography, but it's much more--it's the record of a spiritual journey, which is what has made it so famous--and it's really the beginning of the ... Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne many good recommendations here...and a few i would run from....lol
i would second the suggestion for Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain. a self professed atheist as a young man, it is his very personal story of his journey to God and then to the Church.
now, not to get into an argument, ... ... and I imagine her quoting from it helped not to want to read it (as well as The Power of Positive Thinking).
Now, The seven story mountain is a religious classic and I did read this, as well as others by Thomas Merton. (unsatisfactory Touchstone). ... I O N
1. White Collar Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr. 1 copy
2. How to Win at Canasta, Oswald Jacoby 1 copy
3. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton 975 copies
4. Home Sweet Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr. 1 copy
5. Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Er ... ... until he retired, which he did at the age of 56. After that, when he wasn't fishing, his nose was constantly in books like Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton or The Confessions of Saint Augustine or a multi-volume set he had written by Thomas Acquinas, among other books of the same ... ... of four great American Catholics: Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Day, and Walker Percy.
Oh, and Merton's Seven Storey Mountain.
All great books. All great beginnings, I think. Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain had a huge impact on me, mainly because at the time I read it, I was still imprisoned in Catholic school hell, and it opened my eyes to the fact that the Judeo-Christian tradition didn't have to be exclusive of Eastern thought. This is the book that ... The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton As you observe, different situations call for different books, but I once gave someone a copy of Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain. I don't know that it "worked", but then, I don't know that he read it, either. Merton: The Seven Storey Mountain
Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
Lawrence: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Frost: The List of Seven
Christie: The Seven Dials Mystery the seven storey mountain by thomas merton
dune by frank herbert
mountain of black glass by tad williams
the magic mountain by thomas mann
brokeback mountain by annie proulx five dialogues
the fourth way
the seven storey mountain
three essays on religion
the two towers deniro:
I, too, am amazed about The Seven Storey Mountain appearing so often on this group's listings. I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what, if anything, is so intrinsically "conservative" about the book.
We might well expect ANY religious books to be listed more ... ... given to books as the mediators of Tradition in the "conversion stories" of spiritual autobiographies -- Confessions, The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton), and We Have Been Friends Together (Raissa Maritain, wife of Jacques Maritain) (and others, I'm sure, which I just ...
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