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@@ -8,7 +8,17 @@
    :fiction 10
    "Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say *The
 Sandman* as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has
    :fiction 10
    "Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say *The
 Sandman* as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has

-written."))
+written.")
+  ("Good Omens"
+   :fiction 8
+   "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.")
+  ("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


@@ -127,7 +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"


@@ -186,6 +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


@@ -196,7 +216,7 @@ one wishes to understand *On the Genealogy of Morals*.")
   ("On the Geneaology of Morals"
    :nonfiction 9
    "*On the Geneaology of Morals* is a wonderful book of three
   ("On the Geneaology of Morals"
    :nonfiction 9
    "*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.")
   ("Ecce Homo"
 blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
 these valuations unknowingly.")
   ("Ecce Homo"


@@ -261,8 +281,17 @@ incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
 utterly worthless.")
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0
 utterly worthless.")
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0

-   "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peytoe blah blah I'm
-Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother."))
+   "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
+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)


@@ -294,21 +323,71 @@ down the rabbit hole."))
   nil
   ("A Canticle for Leibowitz" :fiction 10))
  ((|David| |Lamkins|)
   nil
   ("A Canticle for Leibowitz" :fiction 10))
  ((|David| |Lamkins|)

+  nil

   ("Successful Lisp"
   ("Successful Lisp"

-   :nonfiction 8
-   "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to
+    :nonfiction 8
+    "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to

 pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))
  ((|John| |Allison|)
 pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))
  ((|John| |Allison|)

-  "The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][ScaryGo Round]. 
+  "The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][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."
 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."

-  (("Looks, Brains and Everything" :fiction nil)
-   ("Blame the Sky" :fiction nil)
-   ("Skellington" :fiction nil)
-   ("The Retribution Index" :fiction nil)
-   ("Great Aches" :fiction nil)
-   ("Ahoy Hoy!" :fiction nil)
-   ("Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers" :fiction nil)
-   ("Ghosts" :fiction nil))))
+  ("Looks, Brains and Everything" :fiction nil)
+  ("Blame the Sky" :fiction nil)
+  ("Skellington" :fiction nil)
+  ("The Retribution Index" :fiction nil)
+  ("Great Aches" :fiction nil)
+  ("Ahoy Hoy!" :fiction nil)
+  ("Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers" :fiction nil)
+  ("Ghosts" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Mike| |Carey|)
+  nil
+  ("Lucifer (series)"
+   :fiction 6
+   "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."))
+ ((|Anonymous|)
+  nil
+  ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Alisa| |Kwitney|)
+  nil
+  ("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)))
+