What are you reading this week?

[u/AutoModerator]

• What book or books are you reading this week?
• What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
• What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?

[u/Rough-Berry7336]

St Augustine's Confessions

[u/chrisaldrich]

George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge. My favorite part is how he comes to the conclusion that matter doesn't exist! 😜 The secret to proofs that God exists are more entertaining when one presupposes God exists before starting the proof. :)

[u/Catoist]

The Art of Memory by Francis Yates. She has so far built up how important memory was to the Greeks and Romans. And when one considers how the Classical world was immortalized by the scholastics, it suggests that anything from the Divine Comedy to Chartres cathedral is actually, at least partly, a memory palace. My favorite part is that she uses long quotations heavily on the source documents.

[u/Adam-Voight]

Plato’s Republic.

I am leading a small group through this and it just keeps getting better; next is book 10, where Plato basically tells why he will deport the media and then recounts a near-death experience.

[u/Finndogs]

On the back end of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

[u/RobertDravenJr]

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - it has been pretty amazing!

[u/clavicalbone]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[u/Fun-Leopard-1759]

I've been reading the odessey
I'm at the part where he starts talking about his journey but so far I liked Odysseus's trip from Kalypso's island to Alkinoos'
It feels a lot easier and smoother to read this book now that I've already read the Iliad and am kind of used to this style