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@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ written.")
 so-called *normal people books*, and so she lent me *Good Omens*. It
 was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book
 magazines I read when I was small and the name *Sandman*; thus through
 so-called *normal people books*, and so she lent me *Good Omens*. It
 was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book
 magazines I read when I was small and the name *Sandman*; thus through

-one book I found something far greater."))
+one book I found something far greater.")
+  ("American Gods"
+   :fiction 6
+   "Entertaining, but the end was a bit much rushed."))

  ((|William| |Blake|)
   "Blake is my [[William Blake][favorite]] of the English poets. His
 unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
  ((|William| |Blake|)
   "Blake is my [[William Blake][favorite]] of the English poets. His
 unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very


@@ -134,7 +137,12 @@ conflict between the views.")
    :nonfiction 10
    "He who despairs of esthetic repetition gets none; he who despairs
 of ethical repetition receieves the esthetic. Is it true then that no
    :nonfiction 10
    "He who despairs of esthetic repetition gets none; he who despairs
 of ethical repetition receieves the esthetic. Is it true then that no

-repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for?"))
+repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for?")
+  ("The Concept of Anxiety"
+   :nonfiction 7
+   "...Very clearly an early work of Kierkegaard. It is rather formal
+and difficult to get through. I'd recommend reading a lot of other
+Kierkegaard before this. "))

  ((|Thomas| |More|)
   nil
   ("Utopia"
  ((|Thomas| |More|)
   nil
   ("Utopia"


@@ -193,6 +201,11 @@ on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation
 by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay)
 only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
 polemic."
 by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay)
 only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
 polemic."

+  ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
+   :fiction 8
+   "A masterpiece of indirect communication depsite the occasional
+flaw and overly dramatic passage. Certainly a book worth reading many
+times over the course of one's life.")

   ("Beyond Good and Evil"
    :nonfiction 8
    "A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
   ("Beyond Good and Evil"
    :nonfiction 8
    "A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically


@@ -269,7 +282,16 @@ utterly worthless.")
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0
    "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0
    "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm

-Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother."))
+Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.")
+  ("Brave New World"
+   :fiction 7
+   "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 *Brave New World*
+and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of
+an *Epsilon*. *1984* is perhaps easily misread, but *Brave New World*
+is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside
+the head with a hammer."))

  ((|Douglas| |Adams|)
   nil
   ("Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)" :fiction 8)
  ((|Douglas| |Adams|)
   nil
   ("Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)" :fiction 8)


@@ -336,5 +358,36 @@ relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly."))
   ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz" :fiction nil))
  ((|Alisa| |Kwitney|)
   nil
   ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz" :fiction nil))
  ((|Alisa| |Kwitney|)
   nil

-  ("Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold" :fiction 8)))
+  ("Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold" :fiction 8))
+ ((|John| |Milton|)
+  nil
+  ("Paradise Lost" :fiction 10))
+ ((|Yevgeny| |Zamyatin|)
+  nil
+  ("We" :fiction))
+ ((|Kurt| |Vonnegut|)
+  nil
+  ("Cat's Cradle"
+   :fiction 9
+   "There are few books that I have started to read before sleeping
+and found myself watching the sun rise after finishing. *Cat's Cradle*
+is definitely required nerd reading."))
+ ((|Robert| |Anton| |Wilson|)
+  "Or rather, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea (but my book script
+updating thing doesn't do multiple authors"
+  ("The Illuminatus! Trilogy"
+   :nonfiction 10
+   "e-cash MP5K-SD Adriatic Bellcore Lon Horiuchi 9705 Samford Road
+jihad New World Order AVN FTS2000 ANZUS subversive SAPO PET Armani"))
+ ((|Edgar| |Allan| |Poe|)
+  "ULTRAGOTHIK"
+  ("Tales of Mystery and Suspense"
+    :fiction 6
+    "This is when I learned that I still don't really like late 1800s
+American literature all that much. Some of the tales were worth
+reading, but most of it was not in a style I like all that much."))
+ ((|Albert| |Camus|)
+  nil
+  ("The Plague" :fiction)))
+