The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][ScaryGo Round]. +
The author of the rather amazing Scary Go Round. 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.
@@ -560,11 +600,26 @@ GhostsFiction
+ + + + + + +Fiction
@@ -573,7 +628,7 @@ The Frogs -Fiction
@@ -582,7 +637,7 @@ The Clouds -Fiction
@@ -592,12 +647,12 @@ Ecclesiazusae -Nonfiction
@@ -606,7 +661,7 @@ Ethics -Nonfiction
@@ -615,7 +670,7 @@ Categories -Nonfiction
@@ -624,7 +679,7 @@ Poetics -Nonfiction
@@ -634,12 +689,12 @@ Rhetoric -Rating: (4) / Nonfiction
@@ -652,7 +707,7 @@ Epictetus, and I suggest reading his Discourses instead. -Blake is my favorite of the English poets. His @@ -662,7 +717,7 @@ interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other things.
-Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -674,7 +729,7 @@ Beulah. -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -684,12 +739,34 @@ Jerusalem -Rating: (6) / Fiction
+ +Of the Sandman spinoffs, Lucifer 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.
+ + + + +Nonfiction
@@ -699,12 +776,12 @@ Analects -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -715,13 +792,26 @@ written. +Rating: (8) / Fiction
+ +A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read +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.
+ + + + +Former teacher and now author-activist.
-Rating: (9) / Nonfiction
@@ -733,7 +823,7 @@ system. Available -Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not @@ -746,7 +836,7 @@ 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).
-Rating: (3) / Fiction
@@ -756,7 +846,7 @@ Tear and a Smile excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice"). -Rating: (9) / Fiction
@@ -765,7 +855,7 @@ The Prophet -Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -774,7 +864,7 @@ Sand and Foam -Rating: (8) / Fiction
@@ -784,12 +874,12 @@ The Madman -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -799,14 +889,14 @@ The Odyssey -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.
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@@ -819,23 +909,23 @@ utterly worthless. -Rating: (0) / Nonfiction
-Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peytoe blah blah I'm +
Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.
-Rating: (7) / Nonfiction
@@ -844,7 +934,7 @@ The Varieties of Religious Experience -Nonfiction
@@ -866,13 +956,13 @@ from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest? -The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read: one) of his books, but what I did was decent.
-Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -884,12 +974,12 @@ more beneath. -Rating: (10) / Nonfiction
@@ -906,14 +996,14 @@ make mapping decisions customizable. -Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused disagreeable.
-Rating: (10) / Nonfiction
@@ -930,7 +1020,7 @@ forces reflection. -Rating: (10) / Nonfiction
@@ -943,7 +1033,7 @@ conflict between the views. -Nonfiction
@@ -952,7 +1042,7 @@ Fear and Trembling -Rating: (10) / Nonfiction
@@ -964,22 +1054,43 @@ repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for? -Rating: (8) / Fiction
+ + + + + + +(Successful Lisp NONFICTION 8 -
--After learning Scheme, I read Successful Lisp and was able to -pick up Common Lisp fairly easily.)
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Rating: (8) / Nonfiction
+ +After learning Scheme, I read Successful Lisp and was able to +pick up Common Lisp fairly easily.
+ + + + +Nonfiction
@@ -989,12 +1100,12 @@ Mencius -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -1004,12 +1115,12 @@ A Canticle for Leibowitz -Rating: (8) / Fiction
@@ -1018,7 +1129,7 @@ Watchmen -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -1028,12 +1139,12 @@ V for Vendetta -Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -1050,7 +1161,7 @@ social customs. -A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good secular @@ -1061,7 +1172,7 @@ 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.
-Rating: (8) / Nonfiction
@@ -1074,19 +1185,19 @@ one wishes to understand On the Genealogy of Morals. -Rating: (9) / Nonfiction
On the Geneaology of Morals is a wonderful book of three -polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the +polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethical valuations, and the blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by these valuations unknowingly.
-Rating: (7) / Nonfiction
@@ -1100,12 +1211,12 @@ Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works. -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -1114,7 +1225,7 @@ George Orwell -Fiction
@@ -1124,12 +1235,12 @@ Animal Farm -Fiction
@@ -1138,7 +1249,7 @@ Symposium -Fiction
@@ -1147,7 +1258,7 @@ Euthyphro -Nonfiction
@@ -1156,7 +1267,7 @@ Apology -Fiction
@@ -1165,7 +1276,7 @@ Crito -Rating: (10) / Nonfiction
@@ -1174,7 +1285,7 @@ Phaedo -Fiction
@@ -1184,12 +1295,12 @@ Protagoras -Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -1218,12 +1329,12 @@ difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time. -Rating: (9) / Fiction
@@ -1238,7 +1349,7 @@ as more than mere cyberpunk fiction. -Rating: (8) / Fiction
@@ -1255,12 +1366,12 @@ Stephenson novel. -Nonfiction
@@ -1274,12 +1385,12 @@ down the rabbit hole. -Rating: (9) / Fiction
@@ -1288,7 +1399,7 @@ The Lord of the Rings -Rating: (10) / Fiction
@@ -1297,7 +1408,7 @@ The Silmarillion -Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -1307,12 +1418,12 @@ The Lost Tales -Rating: (7) / Fiction
@@ -1345,12 +1456,12 @@ The Island of Dr Moreau - + January 26, 2009