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
: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"
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
("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)
("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)))
+
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