-(((|William| |Blake|)
+(((|Alan| |Moore|)
+ nil
+ ("Watchmen" :fiction 8)
+ ("V for Vendetta" :fiction 10))
+ ((|Neil| |Gaiman|)
+ nil
+ ("The Sandman (series)"
+ :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."))
+ ((|William| |Blake|)
"Blake is my [[William Blake][favorite]] of the English poets. His
unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality
:fiction 3
"One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like *A
Tear and a Smile* excepting the last poem (\"A Poet's Voice\").")
- ("The Prophet" :fiction 9 "")
+ ("The Prophet" :fiction 9)
("Sand and Foam" :fiction 7 "An interesting little book of aphorisms.")
- ("The Madman" :fiction 8 ""))
+ ("The Madman" :fiction 8))
((|John| |Taylor| |Gatto|)
"Former teacher and now author-activist."
("Underground History of American Education"
system. Available
[[http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/][online for free]]."))
((|Luke| |Rhinehardt|)
- ""
+ nil
("The Dice Man"
:fiction 7
"<quote>
attack on psychoanalysis, and part deep philosophy. It was often
difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time."))
((|Neal| |Stephenson|)
- ""
+ nil
("Snow Crash"
:fiction 9
"As one must read the *Bible* to understand English literature, so one
I'd still have to recommend *Snow Crash* if one wished to read only one
Stephenson novel."))
((|Marcus| |Aurelius|)
- ""
+ nil
("Meditations"
:nonfiction 6
"I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic
rewarding read. The first book is a series of essays and a diary of a
young esthetician; the second is a pair of long letters from an older
ethicist friend to this esthetician. You are then left to resolve the
-conflict between the views."))
+conflict between the views.")
+ ("Fear and Trembling"
+ :nonfiction nil
+ "An interesting dialectical lyric contrasting Despair and Faith."))
((|Thomas| |More|)
- ""
+ nil
("Utopia"
:fiction 7
"I read most of Utopia in high school with the TI-89 ebook reader, but
negative ideal), but with an strange blend of 14th century European
social customs."))
((|William| |James|)
- ""
+ nil
("The Varieties of Religious Experience"
:nonfiction 7
- "[[William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience][A partially finished extended summary]]"))
+ "[[William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience][A partially finished extended summary]]")
+ ("The PhD Octopus"
+ :nonfiction nil
+ "<quote>
+America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things
+in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable
+unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which
+bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate. It seems to me high
+time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye
+upon this decidedly grotesque tendency. Other nations suffer terribly
+from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest?
+</quote>
+
+[[William James - The PhD Octopus][Full Text]]"))
((|Henry| |James|)
"The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read:
one) of his books, but what I did was decent."
for all of his lost loved ones on the surface, but something a bit
more beneath."))
((|Gregor| |Kiczales|)
- ""
+ nil
("The Art of the Metaobject Protocol"
:nonfiction 10
"AMOP is useful as a reference to the CLOS MOP (although less so with
:nonfiction 8
"A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in *Thus Spoke
-Zarathustra*. The final chapters are very important (not to detract
-from the value of the rest of the work) if one wishes to understand
-*On the Genealogy of Morals*.")
+Zarathustra* in the negative form. The final chapters are very
+important (not to detract from the value of the rest of the work) if
+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
polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the
blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
-these valuations unknowingly.")))
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+these valuations unknowingly.")
+ ("Ecce Homo"
+ :nonfiction 7
+ "*Ecce Homo* is Nietzsche's very strange autobiography and
+explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have
+used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a
+catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as
+Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works.")))
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