X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/clinton/website/src/unknownlamer.org.git/blobdiff_plain/064cb94bff66676030e3373c6a0505ebd3f631bf..HEAD:/book-list.lisp diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp index d65810b..5ca0621 100644 --- a/book-list.lisp +++ b/book-list.lisp @@ -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 -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 @@ -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 -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" @@ -274,7 +282,16 @@ utterly worthless.") ("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) @@ -347,5 +364,30 @@ relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly.")) ("Paradise Lost" :fiction 10)) ((|Yevgeny| |Zamyatin|) nil - ("We" :fiction))) + ("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))) +