The One Book...

The Pontificator has posted some questions about your reading preferences. Below are his questions and my answers to them. You can read his own answers and others or add your own by going here.

1. One book that changed your life:
Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis (Yes he is post schism and western. It’s still good.)

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
The Lord of the Rings (OK. So everyone else is saying the same thing. I have read it more than any other books.)

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
The Jordanville Prayer Book with the US Navy Survival Manual as a close second.

4. One book that made you laugh:
Any book by Lewis Grizzard (Memory Eternal!)

5. One book that made you cry:
Books don’t make me cry. Movies do that.

6. One book that you wish had been written:
# 21 by Patrick O’Brien (Memory Eternal!)

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

8. One book you’re currently reading:
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon