-</div>
-
-
-<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><h2><a name="sec1" id="sec1"></a>
-Marcus Aurelius</h2>
-
-
-
-<h3><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
-Meditations</h3>
-
-<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good">••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••••</span> (6) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-
-<p>I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic
-philosophy. It is a fairly quick read; I read each of the twelve books
-before sleeping over the course of two weeks. Toward the end of the
-collection things get a bit topically repetetive (e.g. acting
-according to the nature of man is reflected upon over and over), but
-each repetition looks at the topic in a slightly different light. A
-number of passages I found quite inspiring, and scratched them down in
-my notebook to ponder further.</p>
-
-
-
-<h2><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
-William Blake</h2>
-
-<p class="first">Blake is my <a href="William%20Blake.html">favorite</a> of the English poets. His
-unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
-interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality
-<a href="http://blakearchive.org">complete archive of Blake's works</a> online
-with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other
-things.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
-The Four Zoas</h3>
-
-<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good">••••••••••</span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-
-<p>The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The
-Four Zoas divide from Albion and rage through the ages of dismal woe
-to bring about the end of the cycle of Ulro and restore the cycle of
-Beulah.</p>
-
-
-<h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
-Jerusalem</h3>
-
-<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good">••••••••••</span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-
-<p>The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.</p>
-
-
-
-<h2><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
-John Taylor Gatto</h2>
-
-<p class="first">Former teacher and now author-activist.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
-Underground History of American Education</h3>
-
-<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good">•••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•</span> (9) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-
-<p>An interesting <em>underground</em> history of the American education
-system. Available
-<a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/">online for free</a>.</p>
-
-
-
-<h2><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
-Kahlil Gibran</h2>
-
-<p class="first">Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not
-agree with my æsthetic sense (blah blah), but <em>The Madman</em> onward are
-all rather nice. A few of his works are
-<a href="http://leb.net/~mira/">online</a>, but I recommend scouting used book
-stores for old hardcover editions. The (late 90s onward at least)
-<em>hardcover</em> versions from <em>Alfred A. Knopf</em> are in fact permabound
-paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to
-the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more,
-naturally).</p>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec52">Aldous Huxley</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec53">The Doors of Perception</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec54">Heaven and Hell</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec55">Brave New World</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec56">William James</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec57">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec58">The PhD Octopus</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec59">Henry James</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec60">The Altar of the Dead</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec61">Gregor Kiczales</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec62">The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec63">Søren Kierkegaard</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec64">Sickness Unto Death</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec65">Either/Or</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec66">Fear and Trembling</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec67">Repetition</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec68">The Concept of Anxiety</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec69">Alisa Kwitney</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec70">Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec71">David Lamkins</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec72">Successful Lisp</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec73">Mencius</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec74">Mencius</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec75">Walter Miller</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec76">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec77">John Milton</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec78">Paradise Lost</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec79">Alan Moore</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec80">Watchmen</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec81">V for Vendetta</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec82">Thomas More</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec83">Utopia</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec84">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec85">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec86">Beyond Good and Evil</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec87">On the Geneaology of Morals</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec88">Ecce Homo</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec89">George Orwell</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec90">1984</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec91">Animal Farm</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec92">Plato</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec93">Symposium</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec94">Euthyphro</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec95">Apology</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec96">Crito</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec97">Phaedo</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec98">Protagoras</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec99">Edgar Allan Poe</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec100">Tales of Mystery and Suspense</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec101">Luke Rhinehardt</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec102">The Dice Man</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec103">Neal Stephenson</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec104">Snow Crash</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec105">Cryptonomicon</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec106">Bjarne Stroustrup</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec107">The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec108">JRR Tolkien</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec109">The Lord of the Rings</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec110">The Silmarillion</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec111">The Lost Tales</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec112">Kurt Vonnegut</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec113">Cat's Cradle</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec114">H.G. Wells</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec115">The Island of Dr Moreau</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec116">Robert Anton Wilson</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec117">The Illuminatus! Trilogy</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec118">Yevgeny Zamyatin</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec119">We</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</div>
+
+
+<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><h2><a name="sec1" id="sec1"></a>
+Douglas Adams</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
+Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
+The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
+Aeschylus</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
+Oresteia</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
+Prometheus Bound</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
+The Persians</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
+John Allison</h2>
+
+<p class="first">The author of the rather amazing <a href="http://scarygoround.com">Scary Go Round</a>.
+I highly recommend procuring the printed collections; the printing
+quality is superb (full color on glossy paper), and the long story
+arcs are much easier to read.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
+Looks, Brains and Everything</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
+Blame the Sky</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
+Skellington</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12"></a>
+The Retribution Index</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec13" id="sec13"></a>
+Great Aches</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec14" id="sec14"></a>
+Ahoy Hoy!</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec15" id="sec15"></a>
+Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec16" id="sec16"></a>
+Ghosts</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec17" id="sec17"></a>
+Anonymous</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec18" id="sec18"></a>
+Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec19" id="sec19"></a>
+Aristophanes</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec20" id="sec20"></a>
+The Frogs</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec21" id="sec21"></a>
+The Clouds</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec22" id="sec22"></a>
+Ecclesiazusae</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec23" id="sec23"></a>
+Aristotle</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec24" id="sec24"></a>
+Ethics</h3>
+
+<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec25" id="sec25"></a>
+Categories</h3>
+
+<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec26" id="sec26"></a>
+Poetics</h3>
+
+<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec27" id="sec27"></a>
+Rhetoric</h3>
+
+<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec28" id="sec28"></a>
+Marcus Aurelius</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec29" id="sec29"></a>
+Meditations</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••••• </span> (4) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+<p>At the time, I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on
+Stoic philosophy, and it was a fairly quick read (fifteen minutes a
+day over the course of two weeks for me). Nowadays I've read
+Epictetus, and I suggest reading his <em>Discourses</em> instead.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec30" id="sec30"></a>
+William Blake</h2>
+
+<p class="first">Blake is my <a href="William%20Blake.html">favorite</a> of the English poets. His
+unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
+interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality
+<a href="http://blakearchive.org">complete archive of Blake's works</a> online
+with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other
+things.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec31" id="sec31"></a>
+The Four Zoas</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The
+Four Zoas divide from Albion and rage through the ages of dismal woe
+to bring about the end of the cycle of Ulro and restore the cycle of
+Beulah.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec32" id="sec32"></a>
+Jerusalem</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec33" id="sec33"></a>
+Albert Camus</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec34" id="sec34"></a>
+The Plague</h3>
+
+<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec35" id="sec35"></a>
+Mike Carey</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec36" id="sec36"></a>
+Lucifer (series)</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>Of the <em>Sandman</em> spinoffs, <em>Lucifer</em> stands out as the best for
+the first half, but then the writer appears to take on far too great a
+task, and, with the introduction of some disagreeable character
+relations, fails to execute the story as well as it could have
+been. Still, it was worth reading to the end even though most of the
+stories after issue 35 or so were merely ok. If you like Kierkegaard I
+suggest issues 2, 3, and 62—they show the form of the incommensurable
+relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec37" id="sec37"></a>
+Confucius</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec38" id="sec38"></a>
+Analects</h3>
+
+<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec39" id="sec39"></a>
+Neil Gaiman</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec40" id="sec40"></a>
+The Sandman (series)</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say <em>The
+Sandman</em> as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has
+written.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec41" id="sec41"></a>
+Good Omens</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read
+so-called <em>normal people books</em>, and so she lent me <em>Good Omens</em>. It
+was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book
+magazines I read when I was small and the name <em>Sandman</em>; thus through
+one book I found something far greater.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec42" id="sec42"></a>
+American Gods</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>Entertaining, but the end was a bit much rushed.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec43" id="sec43"></a>
+John Taylor Gatto</h2>
+
+<p class="first">Former teacher and now author-activist.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec44" id="sec44"></a>
+Underground History of American Education</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+<p>An interesting <em>underground</em> history of the American education
+system. Available
+<a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/">online for free</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec45" id="sec45"></a>
+Kahlil Gibran</h2>
+
+<p class="first">Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not
+agree with my æsthetic sense (blah blah), but <em>The Madman</em> onward are
+all rather nice. A few of his works are
+<a href="http://leb.net/~mira/">online</a>, but I recommend scouting used book
+stores for old hardcover editions. The (late 90s onward at least)
+<em>hardcover</em> versions from <em>Alfred A. Knopf</em> are in fact permabound
+paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to
+the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more,
+naturally).</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec46" id="sec46"></a>
+A Tear and a Smile</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••</span><span class="rating-bad">••••••• </span> (3) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like <em>A
+Tear and a Smile</em> excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice").</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec47" id="sec47"></a>
+The Prophet</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec48" id="sec48"></a>
+Sand and Foam</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>An interesting little book of aphorisms.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec49" id="sec49"></a>
+The Madman</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec50" id="sec50"></a>
+Homer</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec51" id="sec51"></a>
+The Odyssey</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec52" id="sec52"></a>
+Aldous Huxley</h2>
+
+<p class="first">Perhaps the most overrated modern writer. Other people have written
+everything he has to write better and many years before he got around
+to it.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec53" id="sec53"></a>
+The Doors of Perception</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> </span><span class="rating-bad">•••••••••• </span> (0) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+<p>Huxley stains the name of Blake by naming this horrible
+pseudo-scientific and pseudo-poetic essay after a line from <em>The
+Marriage of Heaven and Hell</em>. Subjectivity and objectivity are
+incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
+utterly worthless.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec54" id="sec54"></a>
+Heaven and Hell</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> </span><span class="rating-bad">•••••••••• </span> (0) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
+
+<p>Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
+Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec55" id="sec55"></a>
+Brave New World</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>A nice light read; the story is obvious and by the hundreth page
+the ending is clear, but it provided a bit of a break from heavier
+reading for me. I must say that anyone who has read <em>Brave New World</em>
+and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of
+an <em>Epsilon</em>. <em>1984</em> is perhaps easily misread, but <em>Brave New World</em>
+is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside
+the head with a hammer.</p>