Five Books for Beach Reading
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Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In this video, you get my five Best Summer Book recommendations. Give TikTok and videos a rest and READ.
POINTS COVERED
- There is no substitute for the vital connection between the ideas of an author and the mind of a reader.
- According to Mortimer Adler, an author is like the pitcher, and he's throwing balls at you the catcher-reader with each sentence, each paragraph, each chapter. To properly engage a pitcher, a catcher can't crouch there passively because he'll either get hit by a fastball -- or a curveball will miss him altogether.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Patrick Coffin with the five books. |
| 0:07.4 | I urge you. |
| 0:08.4 | I urge you to read this summer, or at least start with one. |
| 0:12.1 | I know five books might be a bit heavy for a summertime reading, and no, I'm not going |
| 0:16.4 | to cover the recent, sad, jumbled motopropéo from Pope Francis attacking not only the Latin |
| 0:25.9 | mass, but the legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. |
| 0:30.0 | I will be doing that soon with Professor Mike Sorrella of Franciscan University of |
| 0:34.3 | Superville, and also Professor Peter Krasnowski in an upcoming podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:40.2 | These are my five books. |
| 0:41.6 | Now, just a note about reading. |
| 0:43.6 | Everyone's excited about the DVD program and the TikTok video and YouTube clips, and |
| 0:49.0 | everything seems to be video based nowadays. |
| 0:51.2 | It's all the rage. |
| 0:53.2 | I maintain that reading is an entirely different way and a superior way to learn ideas that |
| 1:00.5 | are important. |
| 1:01.5 | Ideas that will carry you that can really change your life. |
| 1:04.2 | Things that are video based, whether they're television or film or on the internet, are |
| 1:08.9 | really thousands of, thousands of pixelated bits of light. |
| 1:12.6 | They're not affecting you in the same way as lines on a page that are drawn into your |
| 1:17.3 | mind in an ordered way. |
| 1:19.7 | So this is my three cheers for reading. |
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