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Shade of Achilles's avatar

Thanks for reminding me that I spend too much time doing things other than reading proper books

Of these I'm ashamed to say I've only read the three Norwich books on Byzantium (not to sound like a complete wanker but I used to 'savour' long passages from them over a glass of Turkish tea while sailing across the Bosphorus on morning/evening ferry commutes ok I stop now)

I gave Cicero as a Christmas gift and have been meaning to get around to reading more Lewis. Puhvel and Seward books seem interesting also. I've read bits of Tocqueville...

At present I'm reading Mommsen's history of Roman republic (abridged for schools and colleges--and still I can sense a slight straining of my capabilities). After I get through it I will get stuck into the *real* stuff though.

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Thanks, looking some of these up. I always felt like Mere Christianity was CS Lewis cribbing from Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Not taking anything away from Lewis, I admire him a great deal. But from my understanding Mere Christianity was a series of radio addresses that were later collected as a book, and it makes sense to me that he may have used Orthodoxy as an outline of sorts.

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