December, January, and February
How am i going to manage not purchasing anything till March? That is the purpose of this post
Books
The main Reformed minded sources i'm using daily, and it took over 14 days to figure out which i keep coming to and find most good for the daily readings are
1. Calvin's Institutes - i got the pricey one with a helluva lot of footnotes, plus a 10 dollar theological companion.
2. a Brackel's The Christian's Reasonable Service - this was my last pricey purchase, 4 volumes in one at a price for one in the pricey area that is, it's ironic that some amazon reviews whined about the price, i knew contrarily that it was a steal. In the Netherlands this was a most read text. A devotional Systematic Theology, a warm cuddly scholasticism.
3. Works of John Owen - the Prince of the Puritans, you can't get much better than Owen in this field, however his writing style is difficult, and there's a lot of untranslated quotes.
4. Works of Richard Sibbes - he's a much easier to read Puritan
5. Bavinck on Scribd, plus Scribd has all 10 volumes of William Perkins, who was the first major Puritan. Amazon only has the first 5 volumes, but from the specific publisher you could get them all in eBook. Scribd also has a lot of audiobooks, and they have the first two Mastrichts.
Secular divisions, the ones in a couple posts ago, PLUS when i'm feeling up to it there's a lot of Frenchies, i'd like to get some use out of those Sade volumes, for example his Juliette is over 1,000 pages and includes much of his philosophical ideas, which stem from La Mettrie and d'Holbach, others like Voltaire, Rousseau, Montaigne, Montesqeu. (I spelled that wrong) the fiction guys like Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, and the other classics from mainly Russia, England and America. Oh and Proust, and the French Moralists.
Nietzsche, especially the Julian Young bio that cost 40 poppers!! It's really good, did you know that while he was writing so much anti-christian stuff he lovingly put a bible verse on his dad's tombstone who was a Lutheran minister?
Thrillers - a few weeks ago i tested out what will be my 2nd Gillian Flynn, yes, those thrillers will be very entertaining in the future i feel.
All those Elena Ferrante stuff, and the Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and William Gaddis' first 2 novels as the creme de la creme of modernist fiction, the maximalist types. Also Vollmann, i spent so much on Vollmann, it pains me to not make use of all the stuff i've gotten and am not using, but i mean to get to everything sooner or later.
Feminism, and Anais Nin, Nin's last Unexpurgated Diary volume is supposed to be released this coming Spring, a huge event in my eyes, her Diaries are one of the great wonders of the literary world.
Vonnegut and PKD contained in 7 Library of America volumes, and Vonnegut's short stories in a big volume.
All those controversial stuff mostly from z-library that got the FBI visit i hear, z-library books are a pain to read, but for what there is i snatched up, it's worth it, till i break down and get the bona-fide versions.
Stalin and Hitler studies
Horror novels
THE CRITERION CHANNEL
I've not been using this movie lover's dream that much lately, but i love knowing it's there when i need a change. Simply the best in high quality films, and need i mention there's so many special features there as well?
NON-FUN THINGS
Cleaning up is necessary, and putting refundables in big bags 2 big bags equal 20 bucks, 4 big bags thus means one carton of smokes at a special place we go.
3 months without spending seems a little easier when i look and contemplate the above.
Books
The main Reformed minded sources i'm using daily, and it took over 14 days to figure out which i keep coming to and find most good for the daily readings are
1. Calvin's Institutes - i got the pricey one with a helluva lot of footnotes, plus a 10 dollar theological companion.
2. a Brackel's The Christian's Reasonable Service - this was my last pricey purchase, 4 volumes in one at a price for one in the pricey area that is, it's ironic that some amazon reviews whined about the price, i knew contrarily that it was a steal. In the Netherlands this was a most read text. A devotional Systematic Theology, a warm cuddly scholasticism.
3. Works of John Owen - the Prince of the Puritans, you can't get much better than Owen in this field, however his writing style is difficult, and there's a lot of untranslated quotes.
4. Works of Richard Sibbes - he's a much easier to read Puritan
5. Bavinck on Scribd, plus Scribd has all 10 volumes of William Perkins, who was the first major Puritan. Amazon only has the first 5 volumes, but from the specific publisher you could get them all in eBook. Scribd also has a lot of audiobooks, and they have the first two Mastrichts.
Secular divisions, the ones in a couple posts ago, PLUS when i'm feeling up to it there's a lot of Frenchies, i'd like to get some use out of those Sade volumes, for example his Juliette is over 1,000 pages and includes much of his philosophical ideas, which stem from La Mettrie and d'Holbach, others like Voltaire, Rousseau, Montaigne, Montesqeu. (I spelled that wrong) the fiction guys like Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, and the other classics from mainly Russia, England and America. Oh and Proust, and the French Moralists.
Nietzsche, especially the Julian Young bio that cost 40 poppers!! It's really good, did you know that while he was writing so much anti-christian stuff he lovingly put a bible verse on his dad's tombstone who was a Lutheran minister?
Thrillers - a few weeks ago i tested out what will be my 2nd Gillian Flynn, yes, those thrillers will be very entertaining in the future i feel.
All those Elena Ferrante stuff, and the Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and William Gaddis' first 2 novels as the creme de la creme of modernist fiction, the maximalist types. Also Vollmann, i spent so much on Vollmann, it pains me to not make use of all the stuff i've gotten and am not using, but i mean to get to everything sooner or later.
Feminism, and Anais Nin, Nin's last Unexpurgated Diary volume is supposed to be released this coming Spring, a huge event in my eyes, her Diaries are one of the great wonders of the literary world.
Vonnegut and PKD contained in 7 Library of America volumes, and Vonnegut's short stories in a big volume.
All those controversial stuff mostly from z-library that got the FBI visit i hear, z-library books are a pain to read, but for what there is i snatched up, it's worth it, till i break down and get the bona-fide versions.
Stalin and Hitler studies
Horror novels
THE CRITERION CHANNEL
I've not been using this movie lover's dream that much lately, but i love knowing it's there when i need a change. Simply the best in high quality films, and need i mention there's so many special features there as well?
NON-FUN THINGS
Cleaning up is necessary, and putting refundables in big bags 2 big bags equal 20 bucks, 4 big bags thus means one carton of smokes at a special place we go.
3 months without spending seems a little easier when i look and contemplate the above.
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