tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58613537640995653162024-03-06T04:06:17.215-05:00Index Librorum LiberorumToast the taste makers of the religious world and savour the delights of writers who earned the Vatican's ire.Imanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-48061422577016885972008-08-27T19:32:00.002-04:002008-08-27T19:35:57.576-04:00Kimmie's DoneI finished the challenge. <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/08/index-liborum-leberorum.html">Here</a> is the final list. <em>The Power and the Glory </em>was my favorite. <em>Justine</em> could have been written by some goofy teenage boy.Kimmiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07826974239957583183noreply@blogger.com93tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-78825638857646857542008-08-17T14:00:00.000-04:002008-08-17T17:00:30.332-04:00Wendy's Challenge List<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>UPDATE August 17, 2008:</strong></span> I have officially thrown in the towel on this challenge. I’ve failed miserably having only read one book out of the six I had hoped to read. Part of the reason for this has been my ever growing pile of Advance Readers Editions. At any rate, I thank Imani for hosting this challenge!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">****************************************<br /></div><br />I've chosen six books for this challenge:<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">1. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" >The Power and the Glory</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, by Graham Greene (Mexico)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">2. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" >The Woman of Rome</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, by Albert Moravia (Italy)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">3. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" >Consuelo</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, by George Sand (Austria, Italy and Bohemia)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">4. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" >The Toilers of the Sea</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, by Victor Hugo (Channel Islands)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">5.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > Moll Flanders</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, by Daniel Defoe (England)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">6. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" ><s>Candide</s></span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><s>, by Voltaire</s> (Multiple countries) -Completed December30, 2007; rated 4.5/5; <a href="http://caribousmom.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/12/30/3438674.html">read my review</a>.<br /><br />You can read my post about the challenge <a href="http://caribousmom.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/12/3154385.html">here</a>.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-50327885628627963322008-04-20T20:23:00.003-04:002008-04-20T20:26:16.998-04:00Les Misérables<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJFKnPhFIlcSN6Eim88KmshhGmzkY84zv7wakl8R3ey-PPjKWj8sEXHY6CUaz9rUlqtM0ZzhbomE5-k_7CIJYwpoMwotCPF6mY-QL2lHkJTnFmhm8_lGDjikVae9GTZtKFWPEXh6JLSQ/s1600-h/les+mis.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJFKnPhFIlcSN6Eim88KmshhGmzkY84zv7wakl8R3ey-PPjKWj8sEXHY6CUaz9rUlqtM0ZzhbomE5-k_7CIJYwpoMwotCPF6mY-QL2lHkJTnFmhm8_lGDjikVae9GTZtKFWPEXh6JLSQ/s400/les+mis.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191487791975161250" /></a><br />Les Misérables by Victor Hugo<br /><br />This is an astounding book. It's great, but it's huge. My paperback is 1463 pages, unabridged. But it's worth it. There's more <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/04/les-misrables.html">here</a>.Kimmiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07826974239957583183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-42705173751307555162008-03-25T07:57:00.001-04:002008-03-25T08:00:57.124-04:00The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">This is a monumental book but the thing that amazed me the most about it was how tightly controlled the plot was. I had got the mistaken impression that it wandered about a bit, and contained stories within stories but, although at times it appears to be heading in this direction, everything is ultimately connected to the Count and comes back to him.</span> </p><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The story is well known, a brief recap is all that is necessary: Edmond Dant</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">è</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">s, a young man about to be made captain of his ship and marry the girl he loves is falsely arrested for being a part of a Bonapartist conspiracy and spends fifteen years in the prison on Chateau D'If with an </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Abb</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">é </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">who tells of a magnificent treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Some twenty five years after the arrest the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo emerges, pursuing vengeance against those who wronged him.</span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I spent a long time reading this not because I didn't enjoy it but because I found the first half easy to put down. The story was vivid enough to stay in my head so that I could leave it for a couple of weeks and then pick it up again without a hitch but it was not compelling enough to grip me. This changed at about the midway point and I read the second half of the book in a couple of days. I think the difference was that it began to centre on the personal relationships. The Count was meeting the people from his past, rather than being the aloof and mysterious stranger, and the emotions that he and the others went through, as well as the action as he exacted his revenge and the difficulties that faced the Count as he formed bonds with the next generation and realised that his actions were affecting them, were moving and fascinating. The second half is also more morally complex; in the first half he is obviously wronged but in the second he becomes as much the perpetrator of wrongs as the sufferer, and his internal struggles with this are very interesting, especially in terms of his relationship with his old love, Merc</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">édè</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">s.</span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">At first Edmond is not a </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">particularly</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> interesting character. He is simple but good and brave, really quite dull. The scheming Danglars is far more interesting in the first few chapters. The long spell in prison was also not that gripping although you saw how the character of </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Dant</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">è</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">s </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">was formed by his association with the old Abb</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">é</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> Faria and how his intellect developed. It made me a bit impatient though; I felt like I do when watching films of comic books where they insist on giving you all the background to how the character became a superhero for the first two hours, rather than just getting into the action and letting you find out the history as you go along. However, once transformed into the Count, regularly compared to Lord Ruthven from John Polidori's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Vampyre</span> because he is so pale, distant and mysterious, he is far more interesting. His riches allow him to live as he wishes and he has anything he wants but the pain and torment inside him is evident as he will not allow himself to forget the past. Although always controlled when in company, the internal struggles which he gives into when alone are some of the most moving parts of the book as he sees not only the effects of his actions on others, but also realises what he has done to himself by his desire for revenge and the happiness he has sacrificed.<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">So, as I read this for the <a href="http://liberatorum.blogspot.com/">Index Librorum Liberorum Challenge</a>, why was Dumas banned by the Catholic church? The Catholic Church banned both Dumas <i>p</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">è</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><i>re</i> and <i>fils</i>, and the list states that </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><i>p</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">è</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><i>re</i> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">is prohibited because of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><i>'Omnes fabulae amatoriae</i>' which with my rusty GCSE Latin, I translate as 'all love stories'. I imagine <span style="font-style: italic;">The Count</span> would be part of this, as it is </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">very much </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">a story about love and hate. When reading it I could see why the Church may not like it; the Count is a man who sees himself as a vessel of God, doing His bidding when carrying out his revenge, a twisted view of religion. It also contains scenes of illegitimate birth and extra-marital affairs. It doesn't seem much of a reason to ban an author, but maybe it was enough in the mid- 1800s.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Cross-posted at <a href="http://eloisebythebookpiles.blogspot.com/2008/03/count-of-monte-cristo-by-alexandre.html">Eloise by the Book Piles)</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"></span></p>Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731468718780366957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-13656020749511105002008-02-23T19:59:00.002-05:002008-02-23T20:04:31.726-05:00Gulliver's Travels from Kimmie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirIkiQXdp1P0-xiBwRXHSVBoD7kyOdud55c2a28tzc0tR4Myoa9UQ3BgjWGfof3s-p-JLLfZqEcNdZGvDZ_uZTn-Ni27R-VX5_VzNs-W9533OmSiIn-R71m5S6vcnuJOewsaTlIuuhW8o/s1600-h/gulliver.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirIkiQXdp1P0-xiBwRXHSVBoD7kyOdud55c2a28tzc0tR4Myoa9UQ3BgjWGfof3s-p-JLLfZqEcNdZGvDZ_uZTn-Ni27R-VX5_VzNs-W9533OmSiIn-R71m5S6vcnuJOewsaTlIuuhW8o/s400/gulliver.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170345385808026450" /></a>Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift<br /><br />Gulliver's Travels is a satire on politics and religion. Gulliver is a ships doctor who winds up in strange lands at the edges of the earth. He meets the Liliputs and <br />Brobdingnags. He finds a flying city and another land controlled by intelligent horses served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.<br /><br />"Gulliver's Travels" was considered obscene and wicked.Kimmiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07826974239957583183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-14778604850185775502007-12-30T22:10:00.000-05:002007-12-30T22:13:13.977-05:00Candide - Wendy's Book Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndjLWo47fjsJfP4HyTU-g1lIEozZQueqKtdGiDY92FvSLixpOLLYf_SPI0u7PmB6EruYfQLFCWolU0QcicXti9qoF2n-2SIcfzhOyEXc0FJNnKAOuZlI5t6IrDNidt_dGmffxn3E0CV0/s1600-h/Candide.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndjLWo47fjsJfP4HyTU-g1lIEozZQueqKtdGiDY92FvSLixpOLLYf_SPI0u7PmB6EruYfQLFCWolU0QcicXti9qoF2n-2SIcfzhOyEXc0FJNnKAOuZlI5t6IrDNidt_dGmffxn3E0CV0/s400/Candide.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149969770615645122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Master Pangloss taught the metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology. He could prove admirably that there is no effect without a cause, and in this best of all possible worlds the baron's castle was the most magnificent of all castles, and my lady the best of all possible baronesses.</span> -From Candide, page 12-<br /><br />Voltaire published Candide - a classic satire which skewers politics, religious fanaticism, war, and colonialism - in 1759 to almost immediate success, despite being quickly condemned by French and Swiss authorities and banned by the Catholic church. The book sold phenomenally well "underground" and is considered one of the greatest satires of all time.<br /><br />Voltaire created the naive, young Candide as a way to poke fun at religion and politics, while at the same time questioning the philosophy of Leibniz who was the eternal optimist, believing that all happened for the best and we lived in the best of all worlds. Faced with cataclysmic events (such as the 1755 earthquake of Lisbon which killed thousands), Voltaire questions the idea of a benevolent God who could allow such tragedy.<br /><br />In the novel, Candide faces ludicrous and horrible situations...including floggings, beatings, betrayal, imprisonment, and separation from his beloved Cunegonde. Throughout his travels, Candide meets officials, Jesuits, and philosophers...and discovers a Utopian community...which all gives Voltaire ample opportunity to to attack corruption and hypocrisy in religion, government, philosophy and science. One of my favorite moments in the book was when Candide questions the leader of the Country of El Dorado (Utopia). The scene that follows puts Voltaire's cutting humor on display:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">Candide was interesting in seeing some of their priests and had Cacambo ask the old man where they were; at which he, smiling, said: "My friends, we are all priests. The king and all the heads of the families sing solemn hymns of thanksgiving every morning, accompanied by five or six thousand musicians." What!" says Cacambo, "you have no monks among you to dispute, to govern, to intrigue, and to burn people who are not of the same opinion as themselves?" </span>-From Candide, page 71-<br /></div><br />Voltaire's classic is as relevant today as it was nearly 250 years ago. Truly a book which will stimulate important discussion, this one is highly recommended; rated 4.5/5.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-18881756215533655162007-09-28T20:46:00.001-04:002007-09-28T20:49:28.484-04:00Candide from Kimmie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5KAtzOWgO480gqNRGNVBjYzC4W7enGtIFDIS8caeQfYLI51YiM3tBslALuRYt9ls3pSJs-K15rHcnX2DIuNZZQi4FCkx_a3XeZIm6llQ115SnWpeOIzK68GQsN4XVh0D8vXGr5jEt2k/s1600-h/candide.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5KAtzOWgO480gqNRGNVBjYzC4W7enGtIFDIS8caeQfYLI51YiM3tBslALuRYt9ls3pSJs-K15rHcnX2DIuNZZQi4FCkx_a3XeZIm6llQ115SnWpeOIzK68GQsN4XVh0D8vXGr5jEt2k/s400/candide.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115421256863945298" /></a>Candide by Voltaire<br /><br />I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It's a small book and very easy reading. But the thinking may take up a little more time. It does give you a lot to chew over. I have a bit more on my <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2007/09/candide.html">blog.</a>Kimmiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07826974239957583183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-63087319005925302712007-09-15T15:23:00.009-04:002008-08-27T19:08:50.384-04:00Kimmie's ListI've finally gotten my list together. It wasn't easy to pick just three countries and get a decent list together while trying to coridinate whith my BoGB goal but I did it.<br /><br />1.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/madame-bovary.html">Madame Bovary</a> by Gustave Flaubert France<br />2.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/04/les-misrables.html">Les Misérables</a> by Victor Hugo France<br />3.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/08/hunchback-of-notre-dame.html">The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</a> by Victor Hugo France<br />4.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/07/justine.html">Justine</a> by the Marquis de Sade France<br />5.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2007/09/candide.html">Candide</a> by Voltaire France<br />6.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/07/prince.html">The Prince</a> by Niccolὸ AMachiavelli Italy<br />7.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/07/power-and-glory.html">The Power and the Glory</a> by Graham Greene England<br />8.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/08/paradise-lost.html">Paradise Lost</a> by Milton England<br />9.) <a href="http://kimmieskrap.blogspot.com/2008/02/gullivers-travels.html">Gulliver's Travels</a> by Jonathan Swift IrelandKimmiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07826974239957583183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-1257251647748823402007-09-09T10:32:00.000-04:002007-09-09T10:37:43.367-04:00Stephanie's Intro and List of books!Hi everyone!! Sorry for the delay in posting! After joining up with this challenge, I went on vacation. Then experienced technical difficulties with my modem. But now that I'm up and running, I wanted to say HI!! I read such a variety of books anyway. From cozies to classics, vampire books to non-fiction. Fantasty and historical fiction. Science fiction and award winners. I figured this challenge would be a chance to learn something new....and read some classics I've wanted to for a very long time!! <br /><br />That being said, here is the list of books that I have chosen for this challenge:<br /><br /><ul><li>Candide by Voltaire </li><li>The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo </li><li>Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (re-read) </li><li>Nana (or The Ladies' Paradise) by Emile Zola </li><li>Paradise Lost by John Milton </li><li>Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift </li><li>Indiana by George Sand </li><li>The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas </li><li>The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene </li><li>History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova</li><li>The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli </li><li>Justine by Marquis de Sade</li></ul><p>I stuck with mainly fiction, since that's the genre I'm most interested in. 12 books for 12 months, but who knows if I'll be able to make through all of them! </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-42865356212523085662007-08-19T04:24:00.000-04:002007-08-19T04:48:03.404-04:00Eloise's reading listI have been looking through the lists of banned authors on various sites and getting very excited. I will start off gently and have picked six authors who will meet the rules and that I know I have or am reasonably certain I can get hold of. I am certain to increase the number of banned authors I own over the next year, so this list may be a work in progress. I am a little peeved, though, that I have just waded my way through Emmanuel Swedenborg's <em>The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction,</em> when if I had left it a month I could have included it as part of the challenge!<br /><br />Here we go, England, Ireland and France:<br /><br />Francis Bacon: <em>Essays</em><br />John Stuart Mill:<em> On Liberty</em><br />Laurence Sterne: <em>Journal to Eliza</em><br />Jonathan Swift: <em>A Tale of a Tub</em><br />Alexandre Dumas:<em> The Count of Monte Cristo</em><br />Victor Hugo<em>: Les Miserables</em><br /><br />I may also re-read Machiavelli's <em>The Prince</em>.<br /><em></em><br />The book I really, really want from the list is Defoe's <em>The History of the Devil</em>, so if I manage to get a copy I'll also include this.Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731468718780366957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-42651830544579695992007-08-16T02:28:00.000-04:002007-09-02T13:43:52.851-04:00Musings on a reading listAs I've blogged on my own site before, if there's anything I am it is curious. For a curious reader, the incidental stumble upon the brief mention of the Vatican's Prohibited Books list, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Arts-Sake-Madame-Bovary/dp/0801441684/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-9496037-4938261?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187248933&sr=8-2">this book</a>, was like finding a "X" mark over buried treasure. (Buried it is, or at least partly. I have the resources of three university library collections at my finger tips and not one has a complete bibliography in English.) The Roman Catholic censors had varied and enviable taste (if misguided intentions) and over the centuries compiled an overwhelming list of intellectual marvels. Here was an opportunity to tackle some of the fiction and philosophy I always meant to, and to be introduced to authors I knew little or nothing about. From internet resources alone I've been able to make good ground -- as far as making a list goes, anyway.<br /><br />I made the challenge a year long because I plan to read both fiction and philosophy, and I take absolutely forever with non-fiction reads that aren't assigned. I also expect to be back in school come January, which is sure to curtail what time I have for leisure reads. Finally, I'm a huge proponent for the slackest sort of rules when it comes to reading challenges. I was rather horrified at myself for a few seconds after I made the three countries quota because I realised that it forced participants to choose at least three books, contradicting my free-wheeling stance. Still, it is a <span style="font-style: italic;">year long</span> challenge, and it serves the higher purpose of diversity and exposure, so I try not to feel too bad about that.<br /><br />Here is my rough preliminary list. Choices will be restricted by availability, reported quality of translations and whether they pass the middle-of-the-book test. I also plan to go to the library to take a look at its copy of the Index. The plan is for me to complement the largely incomplete or unusable internet resources by providing more specific information as to which particular works were banned (though the church made it easy for many by simply banning authors' entire output) and mentioning less familiar but potentially interesting writers. I imagine it will be an ongoing project.<br /><br />1. John Milton (England) -- <span style="font-style: italic;">Paradise Lost</span><br />2. Voltaire (France) -- <span style="font-style: italic;">Candide</span><br />3. Simone de Beauvoir (France)<br />4. Auguste Comte (France)<br />5. Anatole France/ Jacques A F Thibault (France)<br />6. Victor Hugo (France) - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hunchback of Notre Dame</span><br />7. Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece) - <span style="font-style: italic;">Alexander</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Christ Recrucified</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Last Temptation of Christ</span><br />8. Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) - <span style="font-style: italic;">Pelléas et Mélisande</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Blue bird</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Treasure of the Humble</span><br />9. Spinoza (Netherlands, Portugal)<br />10. George Sand (France)<br />11. Gerard Walschap (Belgium) - <span style="font-style: italic;">Adelaide</span><br />12. Marquis de Sade (France)<br />13. Gustave Flaubert (France)<br />14. Honore de Balzac (France)<br />15. Alberto Moravia (Italy)<br />16. Giovanni Boccaccio (Italy) - <span style="font-style: italic;">Decameron</span><br />17. Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland) - <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres</span><br /><br />The predominance of France on my list is part of what's driving me to see if any other countries match its shocking overflow of immorality. It may just be my instinctive attraction to their literature: most of the authors were ones I considered or intended to read before I came upon the Vatican's list. That's probably why I was so impressed with it: why, the popes of the past were just like me!<br /><br />Rachel D. has her list ready as well:<br /><br />1. Stendhal (France) - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Red and the Black</span><br />2. Edward Gibbon (England) - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I</span><br />3. Giovanni Boccaccio (Italy) - <span><span style="font-style: italic;">Decameron</span><br />4. Alexandre Dumas (France) - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Count of Monte Cristo</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Imanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-56382727789594285592007-08-10T18:40:00.000-04:002007-08-10T18:50:22.005-04:00Creating Our Lists - Sites Worth PerusingI am very happy to be here and am looking forward to this challenge! I spent some time on Google today and came up with a couple of interesting sites which list famous authors who have appeared in the Index of banned and censored books.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum">Wikipedia's Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a><br /><br /><a href="http://wapedia.mobi/en/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum">Wapedia's Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-17114634006620547642007-08-09T22:04:00.000-04:002007-08-09T23:42:54.737-04:00The best part: challenge buttonsHere are two different sizes for the challenge button.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb302/Bahiyya23/ILP3.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb302/Bahiyya23/ILP2.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The orignal size image is <a href="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb302/Bahiyya23/ILP.jpg">here</a> and you can use it to resize the image to suit your needs.Imanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861353764099565316.post-19721964898252580272007-08-09T21:06:00.000-04:002007-08-12T23:32:56.935-04:00Welcome to the ILLHello and welcome to the homepage of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Index Librorum Liberorum</span>. For a year, working with the <span style="font-style: italic;">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</span> (List of Prohibited Books) officially catalogued and promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of Pope Paul IV in 1559, participants are encouraged to select books or the oeuvre of authors to read, mull over and share with like-minded individuals at this site. The only requirement is that each participant chooses authors from at least three different countries. The <a href="http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/about_database/index_librorum.html">Beacon for Freedom of Expression</a> has a database that allows sorting by <a href="http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/search/censored_publications/result.html?author=&cauthor=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;title=&country=8052&language=&censored_year=&censortype=&published_year=&censorreason=&sort=co&page=1">country</a>. (Awkward database but the best I could find so far.)<br /><br />This index is notable because of the many illustrious fiction writers, poets and philosophers that have been honoured with a place on the list. Here's a very small sample:<br /><br />Albert Moravia<br />George Sand<br />Laurence Stern<br />Victor Hugo<br />Francis Bacon<br />Spinoza<br />Blaise Pascal<br />Daniel Defoe<br />John Milton<br />Radclyffe Hall<br /><br />I was so impressed that I thought to myself, My, wouldn't this make a good challenge? A wide range of authors including obscure religious works, philosophy, fiction, poetry...the possibilities and possible combination of choices seem endless.<br /><br />Any reviews or relevant challenge related posts should be submitted here and, of course, may be cross-posted at your personal blog, if you have one. For organizational purposes please take care to add "fiction", "poetry", "philosophy", "non-fiction", "general" and similar label/tags to your post to make browsing easier. The challenge starts on September 1st 2007 and ends on August 31st 2008. The long period allows us to give, to a small extent, the attention such a list deserves.<br /><br />Because of the incomplete nature of the list readers are allowed to choose any works by the authors on the list rather than being limited to specific works. You may sign up to the challenge at any time and choose as many or as few books as you like: the only requirement is that at least three countries are represented.<br /><br />You can sign up by submitting a comment with your contact information and URL (if this info is not in your blogger profile) to any of the posts. I'll contact you with a blogger invitation so that you can post and I'll add your name to the sidebar. If you wish to be a silent participant, that's ok too!<br /><br />Suggestions, tips and feedback are welcome. I hope that we all have a lot of fun with this. Many thanks to the dwarvish but learnéd <a href="http://arb0rv1tae.typepad.com/bookworm/">Sylvia</a> for providing the corrected title change.Imanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.com68