/lit/ - Literature

>>22633854
based. yes what >>22633870 said. also Eifelheim by Michael Flynn ; and to a lesser extent The Sparrow by Russell (in that it's got a Jesuit priest as a main character and focuses a bit on the Catholic church and how they'd deal with a first contact situation; yet the setting is basically modern day)

>>20111495
>Not the best Catholic fiction I've read

gun to my loved ones head - Canticle is probably my favorite book ever. I'm curious what Catholic fiction you like, can you recommend some?

>>19521834
The Ministry for the Future - KSR
Mean Business of North Ganson Street - Zahler
The Slanter Guttter - Zahler
A Congregation of Jackals - Zahler
Corpus Chrome, Inc - Zahler
Annihilation - Vandermeer
SPQR - Beard

if you like Zahler's movies at all, you'll really enjoy his books. he's a good puply writer. I'm finishing up Herbert's Dune books now.

>>19204687
I'm about 150 pages in now and enjoying it quite a bit. Her prose is good, and I know next to nothing about Ancient Rome to begin with. I can't comment on her use of sources; the philosophy of history; etc etc

>>19205357
>entire book is just but we can't say for sure this happened in fact we can't say anything for certain
I've never read a non-textbook history book before and I find this point interesting. She drives this point home when mentioning the founding of Rome and the Roman Kingdom. I don't know what to make of it, all we can know is what the Romans themselves wrote down, and even to them it wasn't clear what was going on when Rome had 'kings'.

as others have said he's fine for an overview. Moreso in terms of podcasts I'd recommend History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Peter Adamson is based. I'd also not recommend The Partially Examined Life podcast - those dudes are borderline insufferable to listen to.

so..

1) Listen to Peter Adamson
2) Start with the Greeks
3) Use the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as well

I stumbled into a Metaphysics class in college, thinking it was about "earlier" metaphysics - "Does God exist?" "Does the soul exist?" "Plato thinks X about univervals". But once I got into one of the main books of the course - Naming and Necessity - and learned more about analytic philosophy - I dropped the class and took a grade D-. $2k wasted. That's neat you work for him, I guess.