Tagged by James Poulos
1. One book that changed your life?
Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment
2. One book that you have read more than once?
Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Xenophon, Cyropaedia
4. One book that made you cry?
Lauro Martines, Fire in the City
5. One book that made you laugh?
Demetrios Bathrellos, The Byzantine Christ
6. One book you wish had been written?
How The Byzantines Created Western Civilisation by Sir Steven Runciman
7. One book you wish had never been written?
Karen Armstrong, A History of God
8. One book you are reading currently?
Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke & His Circle (obviously)
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Doderer, Demons
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September 27th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
kevinjjones
I never thought I’d be pointing out an error here, but your title quotation was said by Erasmus, not Thomas Aquinas, who was vowed to poverty.
As a Byzantinist, you should be happy to know that Erasmus was talking not just about any books, but Greek books. I wonder if he was thinking of the Cyropaedia at the time?
September 27th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Daniel Larison
How embarrassing. Yes, obviously it couldn’t have been Aquinas. Very sloppy on my part. My apologies–I’ll correct it straightaway.