{"id":484,"date":"2009-06-12T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2013-06-21T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:08:43","slug":"reading-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Reading Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have frequently at this blog commended broad reading including fiction and have defended and advocated the reading of fiction in other venues. I was pleased then to find (via Justin Wainscott<\/a>) this article by Mary DeMuth titled, “Why Should Christ-Followers Read Fiction?”\u009d<\/a> DeMuth deals with common arguments against “wasting\u009d” one’s time on fiction.
\nI also recommend Doug Bond’s<\/a> lecture “Teaching Truth with Fiction.”\u009d<\/a> Bond’s fiction is wonderful and I have commended it often at my other blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So this summer take up some good fiction and read. If you don’t have any ideas on where to start with your fiction reading I mentioned some last summer in a post of ideas for summer reading<\/a>. Here are a few more fiction books that I have greatly enjoyed:
\nA Tale of Two Cities<\/a>\"\", C. Dickens
\nThe Lord of the Rings<\/a>\"\", J. R. R. Tolkien
\nJohn Buchan’s novels<\/a>\"\": The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast, Courts of the Morning, Huntingtower, etc.
\nIn the Reign of Terror<\/a>\"\", G. A. Henty
\nFrankenstein<\/a>\"\", Mary Shelley (a more profound book than movie representations suggest)
\nThe Great Divorce<\/a>\"\", The Chronicles of Narnia<\/a>\"\", etc., C. S. Lewis<\/p>\n

The list could go on and on (feel free to suggest some in the comments). There are many good options. Take up and read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have frequently at this blog commended broad reading including fiction and have defended and advocated the reading of fiction in other venues. I was pleased then to find (via Justin Wainscott) this article by Mary DeMuth titled, “Why Should Christ-Followers Read Fiction?”\u009d DeMuth deals with common arguments against “wasting\u009d” one’s time on fiction. I …<\/p>\n

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