Leaves Of Grass (whitman)- beautiful, naturey, and sacreligious
Poems of Emily Dickinson- not my bag of chips
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)- challenging themes, one of my favorites
McTeague (Norris)- dark, true, what life without Jesus is like, similar to Dostoyevsky
The Awakening (Chopin)-for anyone who has ever felt their own potential and had it snuffed out
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)- moving, about family miscommunications and misunderstandings
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)- the only hope in this one is that the reader changes society
The Bluest Eye (Morrison)- offends audience to emphasize hopelessness
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)- misunderstandings between families
All these books are dark and problematic to the Faith, but these are important issues to confront and to work through personally. Great reading for analyzing the American culture and the human experience in general. If you really read these books there are very sacreligious and offensive, but I think the part of the Faith that they make problematic can be answered. All I know is that I recognize the problems in these books, I feel them, I recognize myself in the characters, but ultimately I come to different conclusions than the authors because the god they talk about is not the God I know. I wish they knew who He really is. We must ask ourselves why these authors have such a bitter taste in their mouths about Christianity? We have everything to so with the problem and the solution.
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