The Explorers' Club, № CDI

Operation AXIOM: The World War
The Triple Alliance (1882-1914): The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, & the Kingdom of Italy.







The Queue
Lamb was in places surprisingly poignant & more often vexingly infantile, frequently blasphemous & occasionally, startlingly reverent. My biggest issue with the book was the sheer volume of penis. There was penis everywhere, as if Man was no more than a phallus. There isn't all that much sex in Lamb, judged by the standards of Moore's body of work, but there is plenty of penis—penis, penis everywhere. Instead of Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, the book could just as well have been called Penis: The Johnson according to Willy, Dick's Childhood Pecker. It is for this bizarre weakness alone that I cannot recommend Lamb to you, gentle readers.

Rev. Keller is a Protestant, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, marking the first time I've branched out beyond Catholic writers in my theological reading since C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters in '11 (Wayback Machine). Though I suppose that might not be true, since Lamb could be considered theological reading, after a fashion.

Recently
Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Father Michael E. Gaitley, 33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat in Preparation for Marian Consecration
Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Currently
Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Presently
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars
Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Llana of Gathol
Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights

Lately Neglected
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
Edmund Burke, The Evils of Revolution
F. J. Sheed, Theology for Beginners