Tom, Aspiring Simpleton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The History of the Indian Mutiny; v. 1: 4
Charles BallTom, Aspiring Simpleton@nick_k_4 Nick, let's make it happen. There are several who are committing or are close. Listen on Librivox (free books) or buy and read these: The Man Who Knew Too Much Charles Dickens Orthodoxy The Man Who Was Thursday The Everlasting Man (my #1) The Ball and the Cross
Paperback, 2021
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stand
Stephen KingTom, Aspiring Simpleton@PhilOutsider Wasn't a non-sequitur. Dri ing out of the Virgin River. Anyone into that region there's a dark pallor that hangs over it. There's a reason Stephen King gathered bad people there in The Stand
Paperback, 2012
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Knew Too Much
G. K. ChestertonTom, Aspiring Simpleton@alancornett @jamesdecker2006 @keeper_orchard @voxtexian @ArthurInglewood What are your interests? I always recommend first going to the web page and reading https://t.co/b6IIUxxsVn. Then I recommend Chesterton 101 by Dale Ahlquist. Then I recommend The Man Who Knew Too Much. Then his biographies of St Francis of Assisi and St Thomas Aquinas. Or DM me.
Paperback, 2021
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
G.K. Chesterton - The Ballad of the White Horse: "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
G. K. ChestertonTom, Aspiring Simpleton“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” –GK Chesterton; A Short History of England I've been pondering the difference between "ought" & "is" between "can" & "should." I think man's hubris is great. We can't seem to accept being content.
Paperback, 2016
$11.74$5.87 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony DoerrTom, Aspiring SimpletonSeems to me that Anthony Doerr wrote @wrathofgnon into his latest novel Cloud Cuckoo Land. When discussing a 1st C codex found in a 10th C binding from Constantinople one professor marvels, but a classicist from Tokyo says its probably just a bunch of nothing. Hmmm???
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Introduction to the Devout Life (Noll Library)
Francis de SalesTom, Aspiring Simpleton@HariSel57511397 St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth (3 book series) https://t.co/W4M3Tkw2rh
Hardcover, 2018
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony DoerrTom, Aspiring Simpleton@Empty_America Adam, you're trolling aren't you? McCarthy The Road Doerr All The Light We Cannot See Morganstern Night Circus Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale Towles A Gentleman In Moscow Pears Stone's Fall O'Brien Stangers and Sojourners Fforde Shades Of Grey Pollack The Devil All The Time
Paperback, 2017
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Introduction To The Devout Life
Francis de St SalesTom, Aspiring Simpleton@HariSel57511397 St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth (3 book series) https://t.co/W4M3Tkw2rh
Paperback, 2015
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
St. Francis of Assisi
G. K. ChestertonTom, Aspiring Simpleton@alancornett @jamesdecker2006 @keeper_orchard @voxtexian @ArthurInglewood What are your interests? I always recommend first going to the web page and reading https://t.co/b6IIUxxsVn. Then I recommend Chesterton 101 by Dale Ahlquist. Then I recommend The Man Who Knew Too Much. Then his biographies of St Francis of Assisi and St Thomas Aquinas. Or DM me.
Paperback, 2008
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Knew Too Much: An Evocative Portrait of Upper-crust Eociety in pre-World War I
Gilbert Keith ChestertonTom, Aspiring Simpleton@alancornett @jamesdecker2006 @keeper_orchard @voxtexian @ArthurInglewood What are your interests? I always recommend first going to the web page and reading https://t.co/b6IIUxxsVn. Then I recommend Chesterton 101 by Dale Ahlquist. Then I recommend The Man Who Knew Too Much. Then his biographies of St Francis of Assisi and St Thomas Aquinas. Or DM me.
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