The reading binge continues: finished /Phaedo/

I should have read this much sooner.

Additionally, I updated the entry on /Meditations/ to better reflect
my current opinion of the work, and added a few more books I read long
ago.

diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp
index 119e9a5..bd752e9 100644 (file)
--- a/book-list.lisp
+++ b/book-list.lisp
@@ -93,15 +93,11 @@ Stephenson novel."))
  ((|Marcus| |Aurelius|)
   nil
   ("Meditations"
-   :nonfiction 6
-   "I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic
-philosophy. It is a fairly quick read; I read each of the twelve books
-before sleeping over the course of two weeks. Toward the end of the
-collection things get a bit topically repetetive (e.g. acting
-according to the nature of man is reflected upon over and over), but
-each repetition looks at the topic in a slightly different light. A
-number of passages I found quite inspiring, and scratched them down in
-my notebook to ponder further."))
+   :nonfiction 4
+   "At the time, I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on
+Stoic philosophy, and it was a fairly quick read (fifteen minutes a
+day over the course of two weeks for me). Nowadays I've read
+Epictetus, and I suggest reading his *Discourses* instead."))
  ((|Søren| |Kierkegaard|)
   "Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is
 interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused
@@ -238,6 +234,7 @@ Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works."))
   ("Euthyphro" :fiction nil)
   ("Apology" :nonfiction nil)
   ("Crito" :fiction nil)
+  ("Phaedo" :nonfiction 10)
   ("Protagoras" :fiction nil))
  ((|Aeschylus|)
   nil
@@ -272,4 +269,46 @@ Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother."))
   ("The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" :fiction 6))
  ((|H.G.| |Wells|)
   nil
-  ("The Island of Dr Moreau" :fiction 7)))
+  ("The Island of Dr Moreau" :fiction 7))
+ ((|JRR| |Tolkien|)
+  nil
+  ("The Lord of the Rings" :fiction 9)
+  ("The Silmarillion" :fiction 10)
+  ("The Lost Tales" :fiction 7))
+ ((|Bjarne| |Stroustrup|)
+  nil
+  ("The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)"
+   :nonfiction nil
+   "Once upon a time I was fifteen and I read this book. It was more
+or less what taught me how to write programs just large enough to do
+useful things, and so shall forever be remembered by me. A year and a
+half later I stumbled upon a little language called Scheme and fell
+down the rabbit hole."))
+ ((|Confucius|)
+  nil
+  ("Analects" :nonfiction nil))
+ ((|Mencius|)
+  nil
+  ("Mencius" :nonfiction nil))
+ ((|Walter| |Miller|)
+  nil
+  ("A Canticle for Leibowitz" :fiction 10))
+ ((|David| |Lamkins|)
+  ("Successful Lisp"
+   :nonfiction 8
+   "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to
+pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))
+ ((|John| |Allison|)
+  "The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][ScaryGo 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."
+  (("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))))
+