You can vote here : http://anselmphilosophy.com/gbs/poll

Selected Stories by Kurt Vonnegut

• Short, easy to read
• Humorous in a disturbing way.

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

• Story of a talking gorilla
• May have been read by many in high school
• Turns story of Adam and Eve upside down: the apples don’t do anything, Adam and Eve only thought they did.
• Environmental Book

Regeneration, Pat Barker

• Chronicles the WWI poetic minds of Britain, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilferd Owens.
• Quick read.
• Discusses the effects of war on the self.

Atonement, Ian McEwan

• Movie.
• Romance
• Attempts to reconcile reality with fiction, the emotional, subjective mind with an objective reality.

Raise High the Roof Beams Carpenters, JD Salinger

• About 50 pages.
• One of his best short stories

All Men are Mortal, Simone de Beauvoir

• The main character, a egocentric actress, attempts make herself immortal through a man who is.
• About 350 pages.

Tomcat In Love, Tim O’Brien

• First person narrative from a very unreliable narrator.
• Brings up some interesting gender issues
• Issues of bad-faith

The Constant Gardner, John Le Carre

• Movie
• Discusses ethical issues such as self sacrifice and the dignity of all human beings, including the “expendable” populations of third world countries.
• The movie is excellent. The book is a bit long…

The Sea, John Banville

• The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult.
• 200 pages

Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adley Guirgis

• 79 pages
• Imagines lawyers battling Judas’ right to go to Heaven in Purgatory

Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello

• The play spends much time vividly demonstrating the limitations of the theatre as a medium of story-telling. Thus the play can be regarded as simply an exercise in the now much-explored realm of meta-theatre; however, it also delves into the larger questions of defining existence and hints at the responsibilities inherent in creativity.
• A bit gruesome in the end…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard

• Movie.

The Crucible, Arthur Miller

• American classic
• Being performed by Abbey Players this fall

Beloved, Toni Morrison

• My sister recommended this. It’s supposed to “blow you away:.
• There is a film.
• Depicts the tumultuous and disheartening life of a slave fighting for her and her children’s liberty from slavery and the ghosts of their past.

Selected Stories by Nikolai Gogol

• Those Russians can write…

Selected Short Stories by Joseph Conrad (“Youth” and “The Lagoon”)

• The Lagoon - The main theme of the story is that death is inescapable, humans often have the illusion that through ‘true love’ nothing can touch us, and that love makes one whole. In order to succeed in life, one must overcome these illusions.
• Youth - A Narrative is a story within a story about the exuberance of youth and the romantic illusions that the young have about life.
• He has other great stories. It’s amazing that he only finished learning English in his late youth.

You can vote here : http://anselmphilosophy.com/gbs/poll

Friday 3/28 3 PM Bradley

Here is some information on the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend

Here is the movie website:

http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/

Date of discussio to be determined

contact skallock@anselm.edu for a copy of the book.

On Sunday January 27th at 5 pm in Bradley House Lounge

for dinner and a discussion of the book

The Kite Runner

By Khaled Hosseini

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

Any familiarity with the text or it’s issues is welcome.

And please bring a dish if you wish!

Also soon to be a major motion picture:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/thekiterunner/

The Anselmian Great Books Society is selling blank cards, very versatile, and great for the any occasion, or gifts to others!

Each card is a photo of books from

Geisel library’s rare books collection.

All proceeds support the Anselmian Great Books Society, a student club dedicated to reading and philosophic discussion.

If interested, please contact club president Sara Kallock at skallock@anselm.edu

Prices:

2.50$ per card

3 for 6$

5 for 10$

All 7 pieces for 14$

Limited supply available!

The Anselmian Great Books Society

Will be holding a meeting in Bradley House Lounge

Sunday November 18th at 3:30 PM

The text is a short story by Mark Twain

“Letters from the Earth”

All are invited!

Potluck.

Letters from Earth by Mark Twain

Full text

(skallock@anselm.edu)

Things Fall Apart will be the text of a possible December meeting, date TBA.

The Wikipedia entry is here:

There are study guides available for this book here

and here

The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini

Strange Attractors by Rebecca Goldstein

Stories of the Night by Peter Hoeg

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Full text

Letters from Earth by Mark Twain

Full text

You can vote for which of these you’d like to discuss here:

http://anselmphilosophy.com/gbs/poll/

You can listen to the Podcast here.

David Banach- The Divine Comedy   By: Dante Alighieri

 The Divine Comedy on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

 
James Mahoney- Images of Hope   By: William Lynch

 Images of Hope on Amazon.com

Click here to listen to this clip

 
Drew Dalton- The Razor’s Edge   By: Somerset Maugham

 The Razor’s Edge on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

 
Joseph Spoerl- Night Flight   By: Antoine de Saint-Exupery                        

                          The Wisdom of the Sands   

Night Flight on Amazon.com

The Wisdom of the Sands on Amazon.com

Click here to listen to this clip

Montague Brown- A Theology of History   By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

A Theology of History on Amazon.com

Click here to listen to this clip

Susan Gabriel- Amusing Ourselves to Death    By:  Neil Postman

 Amusing Ourselves to Death on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

Thomas Larson- The Hungry Soul   By: Leon R. Kass

 The Hungry Soul on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

Robert Anderson- Intellectual Life    By: A. G. Sertillanges

 Intellectual Life on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

Max Latona- In the Dark Places of Wisdom  By: Peter Kingsley

 In the Dark Places of Wisdom on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

Edward McGushin- Heart of Darkness  By: Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

Kevin Staley- The Origins of Philosophy  By: Drew Hyland

 The Origins of Philosophy on Amazon.com

 Click here to listen to this clip

http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/.

The results are a whole new category of greatness! Enjoy.

The MOVIE should be available in the library asap, for all you lazy people, but please come join the discussion anyways even if you only read the opening paragraph of the book.

Let me know what you plan to bring so 15 people don’t bring Coca-Cola.

Those of you interested in helping to fundraise so we can BUY books for you- let me know.

Our next reading will be a short story that is yet to be chosen, please let me know if you have suggestions.

Thank you,

-Sara Kallock

- Meaghan Risley