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Antigone
Listen to the full episode here:In his introduction to The Theban Plays, Charles Segal highlights the question Sophocles asks in his plays:
“Why should a man or woman of noble character and good intentions have to bear a life of suffering?”
If Antigone is the woman of nobel character and Creon the man of, arguably, good intentions, why must they suffer? Why must bad things happen to good people?
Sophocles uses character, circumstances, and divine agency to address this question.
In this episode of the podcast, I highlight the themes, important ideas, and the one image I still have in my head after having read Antigoneby Sophocles.
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Oedipus by Sophocles
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Listen to the full episode here:Sophocles was a friend of Herodotus and a contemporary of the other Greek tragedy playwrights Aeschylus and Euripides. He wrote over 120 plays and seven of those survive. The Theban Plays (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone) cover major events in the life of the mythical king Oedipus of Thebes and of his children. In this podcast episode, I talk a...
The Aeschylus Episode
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Listen to the full episode here:Seven plays survive out of more than 70 written by Aeschylus during his lifetime. Last week, I covered The Oresteia, his famous trilogy, and this week I cover his four other surviving tragedy plays. I highlight the following three contrasts I’ve found throughout Greek Literature and share what we learn within these Aeschylean plays: * Fate vs The Will of Zeus * A...
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 13 from his 2024 Reading List - The Oresteia by Aeschylus. Show Notes * Aeschylus * Purchase The Oresteia * Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting * The Books of Titans Book Subscription with Landmark Booksellers * The Great Books Reading List * 2024 Reading List * Reading Resources * Books of Ti...
Aesop’s Fables
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 11 from his 2024 Reading List - Fables by Aesop. Show Notes • Aesop • Purchase Aesop’s Fables • Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting • The Books of Titans Book Subscription with Landmark Booksellers • The Great Books Reading List • 2024 Reading List • Reading Resources • Books of Titans Website...
The Odes by Pindar
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 9 from his 2024 Reading List - The Odes by Pindar. Show Notes • Pindar • Purchase The Odesby Pindar / Translation by C.M. Bowra • Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting • The Books of Titans Book Subscription with Landmark Booksellers • The Great Books Reading List • 2024 Reading List • Reading R...
The Cataclysmic Will of Zeus
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad talks about the cataclysmic will of Zeus. The Cypria, a lost work with stories predating the Iliad, provides a clear-cut purpose for the will of Zeus. Is it true? Why did Homer ignore it in the Iliad? How does it change the reading of the “will of Zeus being fulfilled” in the Iliad? These questions and more in episode 208 of The Books...
The Atrahasis
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 5 from his list of 200 Great Books - The Atrahasis: The Babylonian Flood Myth. Show Notes • Purchase Enuma Elish / Translation by Timothy Stephany • Purchase Myths from Mesopotamia / Translation by Stephanie Dalley • Enuma Elish Podcast Episode • Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting • The Books...
Homer’s Iliad vs Hollywood’s Troy
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Listen to the full episode here:It’s Homer vs Hollywood. How does the 2004 film Troy stand up to its inspiration, The Iliad? What did Hollywood get right, what did they butcher, and should you watch the film? The post Homer’s Iliad vs Hollywood’s Troy appeared first on Books of Titans .
The Iliad by Homer (2nd Reading)
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses The Iliadby Homer, book 5 for his 2024 reading list. This is his second reading of the epic. Show Notes • First Podcast - Nov 2023 • Author: Homer • Robert Fitzgerald • Ransom by David Malouf • My Thoughts about The Iliad • The Great Books Reading List • 2023 Reading List • Reading Resources • Books of Titans Website The pos...
Enuma Elish
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 5 from his list of 200 Great Books - Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Epic. Show Notes • Purchase Enuma Elish / Translation by Timothy Stephany • Purchase Myths from Mesopotamia / Translation by Stephanie Dalley • Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting • The Books of Titans Book Subscription ...
Q&A #3: The Bible w/ Dr
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Jason A. Staples, Ph.D., a historian of early Judaism and Christianity, answers 4 questions Erik poses about the Bible . Additionally, Dr. Staples answers some questions about his latest book Paul and the Resurrection of Israel. Here are a few of the questions addressed in this episode: • The land of Israel is promised as an everlasting or foreve...
The New Testament (David Bentley Hart Translation)
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses The New Testament(translated by David Bentley Hart), book 4 for his 2024 reading list. Show Notes • David Bentley Hart • Support the Podcast - Hire EPR Creations for Online Consulting • The Books of Titans Book Subscription with Landmark Booksellers • The Great Books Reading List • 2024 Reading List • Reading Resources • Boo...
The Writings (Hebrew Bible Book 3)
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses The Writings of the Hebrew Bible, book 3 for his 2024 reading list. Show Notes • Robert Alter • The Writings - Psalms, Proverbs, Job, The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Qohelet (Ecclesiastes), Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles • The Hebrew Bible: A Translation & Commentary by Robert Alter • Support the Podcast - ...
The Prophets (Hebrew Bible Book 2)
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Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses The Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, book 2 for his 2024 reading list. Quick note: I made a major flub in the original recording of this episode. It has since been updated, but in segment 2, I made the statement that Rehoboam was a good king. That is not true. What I had in mind was King David and that the subsequent kings of J...
The Prophets (Hebrew Bible Book 2)
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The Prophets (Hebrew Bible Book 2)
On Taking Notes in Books
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On Taking Notes in Books
The Five Books of Moses
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The Five Books of Moses
2024: My Big Fat Greek Reading List
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2024: My Big Fat Greek Reading List
Paul and the Resurrection of Israel by Jason A
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Paul and the Resurrection of Israel by Jason A
2023: Reading Year in Review
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2023: Reading Year in Review
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
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Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
On Greek Literature by St
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On Greek Literature by St
The Homeric Hymns
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The Homeric Hymns
The Odyssey by Homer
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The Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
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The Iliad by Homer
Three Powerful Ideas from Books for our Time
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Three Powerful Ideas from Books for our Time
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
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The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
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Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Histories by Herodotus
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The Histories by Herodotus

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  • @EltonMutize
    @EltonMutize 20 днів тому

    The first, deep, authentic review of a book I love and recommend. Thank you, I know the commitment it takes to study a book. Keep going.

  • @muttandjeff5213
    @muttandjeff5213 Місяць тому

    Outstanding!

  • @MarkFisher-ox6lx
    @MarkFisher-ox6lx 2 місяці тому

    biden forgot to mention that the promises that he made was promises to china and george soros

  • @p_nk7279
    @p_nk7279 2 місяці тому

    He’s sorta the quintessential tech-geek kid who designs his future & jobs… a couple of things go wrong. It’s a very modern story.

  • @p_nk7279
    @p_nk7279 2 місяці тому

    It’s a good book.

  • @Antonio-ej8wp
    @Antonio-ej8wp 2 місяці тому

    ua-cam.com/video/dFECyeihuZY/v-deo.htmlsi=g_aW0u70iFBt7PwB

  • @tatenokaienjoyer
    @tatenokaienjoyer 2 місяці тому

    Nice, very nice

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 3 місяці тому

    I am reading “Factfulness” now, and it is very enlightening. Although Rosling was brought to my attention when he gave presentations to TED (Technology, Education, and Design) I am quite certain that the attendees at those conferences have not included the main concepts that Hans Rosling was trying to transfer to them!

  • @LyovaCampos
    @LyovaCampos 3 місяці тому

    🇷🇺☦️🤝☪️🇵🇸Hart is a heretic who misinterpret Scripture & our chuch fathers who condemned the pagan notion of pre-existence of souls. None of the Church fathers & saints ever claimed absolute Universalism as Origen the pantheist heretic who said parts of Bible are allegories did, they only believed in the correct view, whereas Hades was a transitional station for the judgement of God, whereas some would be moved to heaven & some would either stay in hades (sheol), which is a subterranean space - the Earth's mantle (as taught us the holy Tertullian), which in turn leads to hell/lake of fire - the Earth's core, where only God's SELECTED souls are saved by His grace & the others forever damned (so God didn't even create "a hell", only allowed Satan, His agent for testing man, to use Earth's inner core for that purpose) Fr. Rooney is 100% correct, and as an eastern Roman Orthodox, I am so ashamed of heretics like David Bentley Hart & all those modern academics, who corrupt our teachings, saying that God's will & creation are necessaries to Him & reject the concepts of mortal sin & justice. With their logic, even Hitler is saved. Yes, what a "good" just god they're believing in, those twisted wiseguys..🤦God bless Fr. Dominic for exposing your Hart's heretical deception! Shame!!

  • @nikkivenable73
    @nikkivenable73 3 місяці тому

    Sometimes I worry that the Bible as I understand it isn’t really the way it is meant to be understood. Hearing Jason talk about Romans 10, for example. He’s a PhD…I’m not, I’m just a Christian and if he failed to understand it(before his deep study into it)what chance do any of us have? Also, Jason saying that there many different ways to answer the questions you gave him…..sometimes I wish God had been much much much more direct. I believe Jesus is the Son of God and He’s the only way to heaven is about the only thing I’m sure of. But is that enough?

  • @nikkivenable73
    @nikkivenable73 3 місяці тому

    I absolutely love your podcast!

  • @camillepotter9580
    @camillepotter9580 4 місяці тому

    I got to see Steve Martin in the late '70's at Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, LA. He was marvelous! He came out on stage with his banjo and had rabbit ears on! We all laughed. He told several jokes and played some songs on his banjo and then happened to touch his head. "Oh, what some people will do for attention!", he said! We cracked up! He turned around and took off the rabbit ears, shuffled through a cardboard box on the stage behind him, and when he turned back to face us, he now had an arrow through his head, and launched into a banjo song! We all cracked up again! I just knew he was going to be famous! Will never forget it! Sure enough, I saw him in The Jerk and recognized him immediately! I was so happy. He has been delighting us for so long now. And I just recently got to see him again, with Martin Short this time, at a Toronto, Canada theater! They were great! ♡♡♡

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 4 місяці тому

      That's fantastic! Thanks for letting me know!

  • @CreeksideKidsWV
    @CreeksideKidsWV 4 місяці тому

    I listened on Audible and loved it. I’m reading the entire series.

  • @nikkivenable73
    @nikkivenable73 4 місяці тому

    I recently found your channel and wow, do I love listening! I usually listen on my walks so I never take the chance to write a comment. But I’ve decided I need to make a reminder to myself to do just that. Just recently I bought Alter’s Five Books of Moses thanks to you. I had never heard of the man and do I need another Bible commentary? 😅 But I always want to read deeper into the Bible or any great book, really. So thank you so much for this tremendous resource here on YT! I’ve always been a voracious reader but what’s almost just as much fun as reading is hearing other people talk about the books that I’ve read and loved or want to read in the future. Thank you!

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 4 місяці тому

      Thank you for the comment, Nikki. I'm so glad you purchased Alter's Five Books of Moses. I think you will really enjoy them!

  • @mohammedhanifa8259
    @mohammedhanifa8259 4 місяці тому

    Ragee

  • @susanarsoniadou
    @susanarsoniadou 4 місяці тому

    Jay Conrad Levinson says the public is as smart as your mom and she's no dummy!

  • @dragonslayersunpraiser9391
    @dragonslayersunpraiser9391 4 місяці тому

    I know this is an older video of yours but I absolutely loved this video! I actually had to read this book for a course in my school and your video helped me further analyze and try to understand this! Will definitely be checking out the rest of the channel!

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 4 місяці тому

      That's great! Yeah, it's a fantastic book.

  • @WalshPhoto
    @WalshPhoto 5 місяців тому

    I read that Jackie gave him the book and he was obsessed with it. He gave a quote from one of the Greeks during his campaign when RFK made the announcement that King was dead. Look for the video online

  • @WalshPhoto
    @WalshPhoto 5 місяців тому

    I had to listen to this. I had read that this was one of the last books that RFK has read before he was shot n 1968

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 5 місяців тому

      Interesting!

    • @WalshPhoto
      @WalshPhoto 4 місяці тому

      I believe this is perhaps the book RFK was reading at the end of his life.

  • @Grapho-ek3lu
    @Grapho-ek3lu 5 місяців тому

    I’m a new fan of Jason’s books. I bought both and I think they are good. What Jason is discovering is not so much, in my opinion, a new paradigm but rather an awakening among mainstream scholars. I think he’s rediscovering what the apostles believed since the beginning. That gentiles are grafted into the covenants of Israel (Ephesians 2) essentially grafted into Israel while remaining of the nations (uncircumcised) and covenant members as equal members just like the Torah originally says, one law for the native and the foreigner. God commands in the Torah that the foreigner who joins to the Lord shall be treated as an equal as if he were an Israelite, like Caleb and his brother, yet keeps the distinction like a dual citizenship. Paul sees the gentiles coming to faith and fidelity to God as fulfilling the prophecy that all nations shall come to His holy mountain, Isaiah 2 and 56, to seek His Torah and remarkably at the same time sees “All Israel will be saved” like Jason shows in his book, through their inclusion. I wish there was small part in the book where Jason explores “Enlargement theology”, specifically explained by Tim Hegg of TorahResource, a theologian, Hebrew and Greek scholar and proponent of One Law theology. What I get from this book is Jason is discovering and trying to describe what Tim Hegg has beautifully explained in many of his studies and commentaries which is explaining Romans 11 “grafted in” and how “all Israel” will be saved. What I like about Jason’s book is that he gives his readers a challenge. Pg 343, he challenges those who wish to be contentious or improve on the paradigm proposed to look at his 3 points. And I think Tim Hegg has an excellent response to point 3, that no one has gone deep into because of the reason Jason mentions in his Preface, that the dominant paradigm is easy and no body wants to start from scratch. Hopefully Jason and Tim Hegg could meet one day and have a good exchange back and forth, theologian with theologian, and help further understand Paul and the Resurrection of Israel.

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 5 місяців тому

      Yeah, I really liked the challenge on page 343 as well. Thanks for pointing to Tim Hegg and for your comments here.

  • @jipjap7720
    @jipjap7720 6 місяців тому

    Its a beautiful book and a great podcast 👍

  • @wolf2912
    @wolf2912 6 місяців тому

    What i like gabler book about Walt Disney is that he does not say he is a saint but not a devil either

  • @astrofails1798
    @astrofails1798 6 місяців тому

    surly your joking is the response you get when you try to describe that you want to do big things. Surly your joking is also the response once you've done it. In a society of non believers in science and doubters of great people, surly your joking seems to be heard alot where ever you go.

  • @clydedisney6569
    @clydedisney6569 6 місяців тому

    Thomas Hughes writer, MP was a friend of Burton. With tongue in check, Hughes based the Harry Flashman Caracter in Tom Brown's School Days on Burton George Macdonald Frasier continued this farce in his series of Harry Flashman books. Still using thinly veiled references to actual events in Rufian Dick's life. This is a well known running joke in the Flashman books. No one can read the books without becoming aware of this.

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans 6 місяців тому

      Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

  • @renyuanliu
    @renyuanliu 9 місяців тому

    love the style of ur video, bro

  • @SamM-gl9zc
    @SamM-gl9zc 9 місяців тому

    The world sure has changed... I can't imagine how I would react if I could go back to 1996 and tell 15 year old me that in 25 years, you're going to think this scraggly weirdo that was caught in a cabin in the woods after sending bombs through the mail for years.. this freak that Will Farrell mocks on SNL... is freaking out because he's *RIGHT* and nobody will listen.

  • @cambroniddings3891
    @cambroniddings3891 9 місяців тому

    Great job. Thankyou

  • @jamesmorgan2064
    @jamesmorgan2064 10 місяців тому

    Steel my soldiers hearts Is my favorite by Hackworth

  • @stevenguevara2184
    @stevenguevara2184 10 місяців тому

    I had to put it down at one point because the violence is too much even for Me. A Man of 44 years. The thing that helped Me to get through is the writing. Which is excellent in My opinion

  • @ahmedharis1236
    @ahmedharis1236 10 місяців тому

    Have you done "confessions of an advertising man by davud ogilvy"?

  • @renyuanliu
    @renyuanliu 10 місяців тому

    Mr. Biden used to be a stutter unfortunatly. Anyway , nice reading and nice intonation and love to your video

  • @jedijedi1075
    @jedijedi1075 10 місяців тому

    Sold!

  • @djamelaggouni9130
    @djamelaggouni9130 10 місяців тому

    19:57 usa invited other countries with silly reasons and bomb them and kills the children, women and destoryed everything living in it and you still CHOCKING that tha usa tourturing people?? WTH!

  • @reefprayerresin
    @reefprayerresin 10 місяців тому

    I love anything Julia Cameron ❤️

  • @DS-uy6jw
    @DS-uy6jw 11 місяців тому

    The lemon and cream thing was a matter of etiquette (and based on the curdling), which was used for the title to drive home the fact that Feynman didn't adhere to or care about such things.

  • @LeeAdrian777
    @LeeAdrian777 11 місяців тому

    I used this book in my 20s. Mostly the writing part. And I will attest to it being life transforming. It’s too bad I didn’t stick to it for longer. I’m back now 20 years later and ready to dive back in.

  • @mybrainhurts3727
    @mybrainhurts3727 11 місяців тому

    Cool podcast. I'm sorry it hasnt taken off to the top, but I'm glad you've stuck with it! I wonder if you've considered trying different marketing techniques, or changing the format slightly to have guests on your show. Both of those things might really help.

  • @MiillieMesh
    @MiillieMesh Рік тому

    I feel like the woman in Afghanistan probably isn't even aware of the lifestyle Americans live. Doesn't mean she will struggle forever. But based on your own experience you will garner what you want which is what you've been exposed to. Like you will have an idea of what could be better for you, so you ask or affirm for that. That's called the power of the subconscious mind. Probably in her circumstance all she would do is attract the ability to either just be safe or to live somewhere else entirely.

  • @someoneelse293
    @someoneelse293 Рік тому

    The thankfully perseverance guy comes across as a bit of a wanker

  • @joshstrayed
    @joshstrayed Рік тому

    Too many commercials every 2 minutes 👎

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans Рік тому

      Hi Josh - thanks for the feedback. I've eliminated the commercials mid-video. Please let me know if that is better.

  • @adrianjohnson7920
    @adrianjohnson7920 Рік тому

    Mortal universes: (guiding principles) goals : "Peace & Happiness" Vicomte de Valmont - seduction and ruin of a desired woman. Dies unrepentant. Marquise Merteuil - unrepentant; gets smallpox at ending; her looks destroyed. Madame Tourville - the peace of a good conscience Mille Cecile - after seduction, she repents Chevalier Daunceny - seduced, repents; goes to a monastery Abbe Anselm -- only religion can bring peace "If we knew what our true happiness consists in, we should never pursue it outside the law and religion."

  • @ColKurtzknew
    @ColKurtzknew Рік тому

    Prime pilots v pud knockers

  • @Dino_Medici
    @Dino_Medici Рік тому

    Just got home from a date w my cousin, pumped to unwind and listen

  • @christinemalo2999
    @christinemalo2999 Рік тому

    Thx for the song mentioned in the discussion. Does it play as the end theme? Would also like to know what’s playing as end theme. Much appreciated!

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans Рік тому

      It's a song I recorded in Atlanta probably 15+ years ago. Branden Burch produced it, I played violin, and my sister played harp. We presented it to some musicians in Atlanta to use on their albums, but no one used it.

    • @christinemalo2999
      @christinemalo2999 Рік тому

      @@BooksofTitans wow! it is amazing and absolutely deserves a lot more appreciation! I'm glad we get the chance to listen to it here. Is there any chance to find it online? Thx a lot for the book discussions too.

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans Рік тому

      @@christinemalo2999 No, just here. I did another episode where I played the entire song, but don't recall which episode. If I find it, I'll let you know.

    • @christinemalo2999
      @christinemalo2999 Рік тому

      @@BooksofTitans thx, I’ll try to watch as much as I can 😉👍🏻

  • @SciaticaDrums
    @SciaticaDrums Рік тому

    I re-read this book often. If the Pentagon listened to him we would have won the war. Oh, and MacArthur was right.

  • @xnlo
    @xnlo Рік тому

    I enjoyed your reflections on this book and found it helpful in purchasing it. Awesome to have discovered that the author is also your pastor. I can only imagine the kind of conversations that emerge.

  • @firinne
    @firinne Рік тому

    18:54 henlo frens.

  • @neo5kali
    @neo5kali Рік тому

    Blood Meridian is one of the greatest novels of the last 40 years.

  • @neo5kali
    @neo5kali Рік тому

    Hemingway is a crappy writer. Faulkner and McCarthy rule!!!!!

  • @dswaggda
    @dswaggda Рік тому

    What's the song playing in the beginning

    • @BooksofTitans
      @BooksofTitans Рік тому

      A song I co-wrote and played violin. My sister is on the harp. We pitched it to music groups in Atlanta and it was never taken, so I use it as our intro music.

    • @dswaggda
      @dswaggda Рік тому

      @@BooksofTitans you sent it to the wrong people but it's super nice