: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
ethicist friend to this esthetician. You are then left to resolve the
conflict between the views."))
((|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]]")
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