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  16     <h1>A Not So Fancy Listing of Books</h1>
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  18 <dl>
  19 <dt>
  20 <a href="#sec1">Douglas Adams</a>
  21 </dt>
  22 <dd>
  23 <dl>
  24 <dt>
  25 <a href="#sec2">Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)</a>
  26 </dt>
  27 <dt>
  28 <a href="#sec3">The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</a>
  29 </dt>
  30 </dl>
  31 </dd>
  32 <dt>
  33 <a href="#sec4">Aeschylus</a>
  34 </dt>
  35 <dd>
  36 <dl>
  37 <dt>
  38 <a href="#sec5">Oresteia</a>
  39 </dt>
  40 <dt>
  41 <a href="#sec6">Prometheus Bound</a>
  42 </dt>
  43 <dt>
  44 <a href="#sec7">The Persians</a>
  45 </dt>
  46 </dl>
  47 </dd>
  48 <dt>
  49 <a href="#sec8">John Allison</a>
  50 </dt>
  51 <dd>
  52 <dl>
  53 <dt>
  54 <a href="#sec9">Looks, Brains and Everything</a>
  55 </dt>
  56 <dt>
  57 <a href="#sec10">Blame the Sky</a>
  58 </dt>
  59 <dt>
  60 <a href="#sec11">Skellington</a>
  61 </dt>
  62 <dt>
  63 <a href="#sec12">The Retribution Index</a>
  64 </dt>
  65 <dt>
  66 <a href="#sec13">Great Aches</a>
  67 </dt>
  68 <dt>
  69 <a href="#sec14">Ahoy Hoy!</a>
  70 </dt>
  71 <dt>
  72 <a href="#sec15">Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers</a>
  73 </dt>
  74 <dt>
  75 <a href="#sec16">Ghosts</a>
  76 </dt>
  77 </dl>
  78 </dd>
  79 <dt>
  80 <a href="#sec17">Anonymous</a>
  81 </dt>
  82 <dd>
  83 <dl>
  84 <dt>
  85 <a href="#sec18">Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz</a>
  86 </dt>
  87 </dl>
  88 </dd>
  89 <dt>
  90 <a href="#sec19">Aristophanes</a>
  91 </dt>
  92 <dd>
  93 <dl>
  94 <dt>
  95 <a href="#sec20">The Frogs</a>
  96 </dt>
  97 <dt>
  98 <a href="#sec21">The Clouds</a>
  99 </dt>
 100 <dt>
 101 <a href="#sec22">Ecclesiazusae</a>
 102 </dt>
 103 </dl>
 104 </dd>
 105 <dt>
 106 <a href="#sec23">Aristotle</a>
 107 </dt>
 108 <dd>
 109 <dl>
 110 <dt>
 111 <a href="#sec24">Ethics</a>
 112 </dt>
 113 <dt>
 114 <a href="#sec25">Categories</a>
 115 </dt>
 116 <dt>
 117 <a href="#sec26">Poetics</a>
 118 </dt>
 119 <dt>
 120 <a href="#sec27">Rhetoric</a>
 121 </dt>
 122 </dl>
 123 </dd>
 124 <dt>
 125 <a href="#sec28">Marcus Aurelius</a>
 126 </dt>
 127 <dd>
 128 <dl>
 129 <dt>
 130 <a href="#sec29">Meditations</a>
 131 </dt>
 132 </dl>
 133 </dd>
 134 <dt>
 135 <a href="#sec30">William Blake</a>
 136 </dt>
 137 <dd>
 138 <dl>
 139 <dt>
 140 <a href="#sec31">The Four Zoas</a>
 141 </dt>
 142 <dt>
 143 <a href="#sec32">Jerusalem</a>
 144 </dt>
 145 </dl>
 146 </dd>
 147 <dt>
 148 <a href="#sec33">Albert Camus</a>
 149 </dt>
 150 <dd>
 151 <dl>
 152 <dt>
 153 <a href="#sec34">The Plague</a>
 154 </dt>
 155 </dl>
 156 </dd>
 157 <dt>
 158 <a href="#sec35">Mike Carey</a>
 159 </dt>
 160 <dd>
 161 <dl>
 162 <dt>
 163 <a href="#sec36">Lucifer (series)</a>
 164 </dt>
 165 </dl>
 166 </dd>
 167 <dt>
 168 <a href="#sec37">Confucius</a>
 169 </dt>
 170 <dd>
 171 <dl>
 172 <dt>
 173 <a href="#sec38">Analects</a>
 174 </dt>
 175 </dl>
 176 </dd>
 177 <dt>
 178 <a href="#sec39">Neil Gaiman</a>
 179 </dt>
 180 <dd>
 181 <dl>
 182 <dt>
 183 <a href="#sec40">The Sandman (series)</a>
 184 </dt>
 185 <dt>
 186 <a href="#sec41">Good Omens</a>
 187 </dt>
 188 <dt>
 189 <a href="#sec42">American Gods</a>
 190 </dt>
 191 </dl>
 192 </dd>
 193 <dt>
 194 <a href="#sec43">John Taylor Gatto</a>
 195 </dt>
 196 <dd>
 197 <dl>
 198 <dt>
 199 <a href="#sec44">Underground History of American Education</a>
 200 </dt>
 201 </dl>
 202 </dd>
 203 <dt>
 204 <a href="#sec45">Kahlil Gibran</a>
 205 </dt>
 206 <dd>
 207 <dl>
 208 <dt>
 209 <a href="#sec46">A Tear and a Smile</a>
 210 </dt>
 211 <dt>
 212 <a href="#sec47">The Prophet</a>
 213 </dt>
 214 <dt>
 215 <a href="#sec48">Sand and Foam</a>
 216 </dt>
 217 <dt>
 218 <a href="#sec49">The Madman</a>
 219 </dt>
 220 </dl>
 221 </dd>
 222 <dt>
 223 <a href="#sec50">Homer</a>
 224 </dt>
 225 <dd>
 226 <dl>
 227 <dt>
 228 <a href="#sec51">The Odyssey</a>
 229 </dt>
 230 </dl>
 231 </dd>
 232 <dt>
 233 <a href="#sec52">Aldous Huxley</a>
 234 </dt>
 235 <dd>
 236 <dl>
 237 <dt>
 238 <a href="#sec53">The Doors of Perception</a>
 239 </dt>
 240 <dt>
 241 <a href="#sec54">Heaven and Hell</a>
 242 </dt>
 243 <dt>
 244 <a href="#sec55">Brave New World</a>
 245 </dt>
 246 </dl>
 247 </dd>
 248 <dt>
 249 <a href="#sec56">William James</a>
 250 </dt>
 251 <dd>
 252 <dl>
 253 <dt>
 254 <a href="#sec57">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a>
 255 </dt>
 256 <dt>
 257 <a href="#sec58">The PhD Octopus</a>
 258 </dt>
 259 </dl>
 260 </dd>
 261 <dt>
 262 <a href="#sec59">Henry James</a>
 263 </dt>
 264 <dd>
 265 <dl>
 266 <dt>
 267 <a href="#sec60">The Altar of the Dead</a>
 268 </dt>
 269 </dl>
 270 </dd>
 271 <dt>
 272 <a href="#sec61">Gregor Kiczales</a>
 273 </dt>
 274 <dd>
 275 <dl>
 276 <dt>
 277 <a href="#sec62">The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</a>
 278 </dt>
 279 </dl>
 280 </dd>
 281 <dt>
 282 <a href="#sec63">Søren Kierkegaard</a>
 283 </dt>
 284 <dd>
 285 <dl>
 286 <dt>
 287 <a href="#sec64">Sickness Unto Death</a>
 288 </dt>
 289 <dt>
 290 <a href="#sec65">Either/Or</a>
 291 </dt>
 292 <dt>
 293 <a href="#sec66">Fear and Trembling</a>
 294 </dt>
 295 <dt>
 296 <a href="#sec67">Repetition</a>
 297 </dt>
 298 <dt>
 299 <a href="#sec68">The Concept of Anxiety</a>
 300 </dt>
 301 </dl>
 302 </dd>
 303 <dt>
 304 <a href="#sec69">Alisa Kwitney</a>
 305 </dt>
 306 <dd>
 307 <dl>
 308 <dt>
 309 <a href="#sec70">Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</a>
 310 </dt>
 311 </dl>
 312 </dd>
 313 <dt>
 314 <a href="#sec71">David Lamkins</a>
 315 </dt>
 316 <dd>
 317 <dl>
 318 <dt>
 319 <a href="#sec72">Successful Lisp</a>
 320 </dt>
 321 </dl>
 322 </dd>
 323 <dt>
 324 <a href="#sec73">Mencius</a>
 325 </dt>
 326 <dd>
 327 <dl>
 328 <dt>
 329 <a href="#sec74">Mencius</a>
 330 </dt>
 331 </dl>
 332 </dd>
 333 <dt>
 334 <a href="#sec75">Walter Miller</a>
 335 </dt>
 336 <dd>
 337 <dl>
 338 <dt>
 339 <a href="#sec76">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a>
 340 </dt>
 341 </dl>
 342 </dd>
 343 <dt>
 344 <a href="#sec77">John Milton</a>
 345 </dt>
 346 <dd>
 347 <dl>
 348 <dt>
 349 <a href="#sec78">Paradise Lost</a>
 350 </dt>
 351 </dl>
 352 </dd>
 353 <dt>
 354 <a href="#sec79">Alan Moore</a>
 355 </dt>
 356 <dd>
 357 <dl>
 358 <dt>
 359 <a href="#sec80">Watchmen</a>
 360 </dt>
 361 <dt>
 362 <a href="#sec81">V for Vendetta</a>
 363 </dt>
 364 </dl>
 365 </dd>
 366 <dt>
 367 <a href="#sec82">Thomas More</a>
 368 </dt>
 369 <dd>
 370 <dl>
 371 <dt>
 372 <a href="#sec83">Utopia</a>
 373 </dt>
 374 </dl>
 375 </dd>
 376 <dt>
 377 <a href="#sec84">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>
 378 </dt>
 379 <dd>
 380 <dl>
 381 <dt>
 382 <a href="#sec85">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a>
 383 </dt>
 384 <dt>
 385 <a href="#sec86">Beyond Good and Evil</a>
 386 </dt>
 387 <dt>
 388 <a href="#sec87">On the Geneaology of Morals</a>
 389 </dt>
 390 <dt>
 391 <a href="#sec88">Ecce Homo</a>
 392 </dt>
 393 </dl>
 394 </dd>
 395 <dt>
 396 <a href="#sec89">George Orwell</a>
 397 </dt>
 398 <dd>
 399 <dl>
 400 <dt>
 401 <a href="#sec90">1984</a>
 402 </dt>
 403 <dt>
 404 <a href="#sec91">Animal Farm</a>
 405 </dt>
 406 </dl>
 407 </dd>
 408 <dt>
 409 <a href="#sec92">Plato</a>
 410 </dt>
 411 <dd>
 412 <dl>
 413 <dt>
 414 <a href="#sec93">Symposium</a>
 415 </dt>
 416 <dt>
 417 <a href="#sec94">Euthyphro</a>
 418 </dt>
 419 <dt>
 420 <a href="#sec95">Apology</a>
 421 </dt>
 422 <dt>
 423 <a href="#sec96">Crito</a>
 424 </dt>
 425 <dt>
 426 <a href="#sec97">Phaedo</a>
 427 </dt>
 428 <dt>
 429 <a href="#sec98">Protagoras</a>
 430 </dt>
 431 </dl>
 432 </dd>
 433 <dt>
 434 <a href="#sec99">Edgar Allan Poe</a>
 435 </dt>
 436 <dd>
 437 <dl>
 438 <dt>
 439 <a href="#sec100">Tales of Mystery and Suspense</a>
 440 </dt>
 441 </dl>
 442 </dd>
 443 <dt>
 444 <a href="#sec101">Luke Rhinehardt</a>
 445 </dt>
 446 <dd>
 447 <dl>
 448 <dt>
 449 <a href="#sec102">The Dice Man</a>
 450 </dt>
 451 </dl>
 452 </dd>
 453 <dt>
 454 <a href="#sec103">Neal Stephenson</a>
 455 </dt>
 456 <dd>
 457 <dl>
 458 <dt>
 459 <a href="#sec104">Snow Crash</a>
 460 </dt>
 461 <dt>
 462 <a href="#sec105">Cryptonomicon</a>
 463 </dt>
 464 </dl>
 465 </dd>
 466 <dt>
 467 <a href="#sec106">Bjarne Stroustrup</a>
 468 </dt>
 469 <dd>
 470 <dl>
 471 <dt>
 472 <a href="#sec107">The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</a>
 473 </dt>
 474 </dl>
 475 </dd>
 476 <dt>
 477 <a href="#sec108">JRR Tolkien</a>
 478 </dt>
 479 <dd>
 480 <dl>
 481 <dt>
 482 <a href="#sec109">The Lord of the Rings</a>
 483 </dt>
 484 <dt>
 485 <a href="#sec110">The Silmarillion</a>
 486 </dt>
 487 <dt>
 488 <a href="#sec111">The Lost Tales</a>
 489 </dt>
 490 </dl>
 491 </dd>
 492 <dt>
 493 <a href="#sec112">Kurt Vonnegut</a>
 494 </dt>
 495 <dd>
 496 <dl>
 497 <dt>
 498 <a href="#sec113">Cat's Cradle</a>
 499 </dt>
 500 </dl>
 501 </dd>
 502 <dt>
 503 <a href="#sec114">H.G. Wells</a>
 504 </dt>
 505 <dd>
 506 <dl>
 507 <dt>
 508 <a href="#sec115">The Island of Dr Moreau</a>
 509 </dt>
 510 </dl>
 511 </dd>
 512 <dt>
 513 <a href="#sec116">Robert Anton Wilson</a>
 514 </dt>
 515 <dd>
 516 <dl>
 517 <dt>
 518 <a href="#sec117">The Illuminatus! Trilogy</a>
 519 </dt>
 520 </dl>
 521 </dd>
 522 <dt>
 523 <a href="#sec118">Yevgeny Zamyatin</a>
 524 </dt>
 525 <dd>
 526 <dl>
 527 <dt>
 528 <a href="#sec119">We</a>
 529 </dt>
 530 </dl>
 531 </dd>
 532 </dl>
 533 </div>
 534
 535
 536 <!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><h2><a name="sec1" id="sec1"></a>
 537 Douglas Adams</h2>
 538
 539
 540
 541 <h3><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
 542 Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)</h3>
 543
 544 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 545
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 549
 550 <h3><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
 551 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</h3>
 552
 553 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 554
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 560 <h2><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
 561 Aeschylus</h2>
 562
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 565 <h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
 566 Oresteia</h3>
 567
 568 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 569
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 574 <h3><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
 575 Prometheus Bound</h3>
 576
 577 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 578
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 582
 583 <h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
 584 The Persians</h3>
 585
 586 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
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 593 <h2><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
 594 John Allison</h2>
 595
 596 <p class="first">The author of the rather amazing <a href="http://scarygoround.com">Scary Go Round</a>.
 597 I highly recommend procuring the printed collections; the printing
 598 quality is superb (full color on glossy paper), and the long story
 599 arcs are much easier to read.</p>
 600
 601 <h3><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
 602 Looks, Brains and Everything</h3>
 603
 604 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 605
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 610 <h3><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
 611 Blame the Sky</h3>
 612
 613 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 614
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 619 <h3><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
 620 Skellington</h3>
 621
 622 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 623
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 625
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 628 <h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12"></a>
 629 The Retribution Index</h3>
 630
 631 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 632
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 637 <h3><a name="sec13" id="sec13"></a>
 638 Great Aches</h3>
 639
 640 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 641
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 646 <h3><a name="sec14" id="sec14"></a>
 647 Ahoy Hoy!</h3>
 648
 649 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 650
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 655 <h3><a name="sec15" id="sec15"></a>
 656 Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers</h3>
 657
 658 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 659
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 664 <h3><a name="sec16" id="sec16"></a>
 665 Ghosts</h3>
 666
 667 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 668
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 674 <h2><a name="sec17" id="sec17"></a>
 675 Anonymous</h2>
 676
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 679 <h3><a name="sec18" id="sec18"></a>
 680 Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz</h3>
 681
 682 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 683
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 689 <h2><a name="sec19" id="sec19"></a>
 690 Aristophanes</h2>
 691
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 694 <h3><a name="sec20" id="sec20"></a>
 695 The Frogs</h3>
 696
 697 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 698
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 703 <h3><a name="sec21" id="sec21"></a>
 704 The Clouds</h3>
 705
 706 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 707
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 712 <h3><a name="sec22" id="sec22"></a>
 713 Ecclesiazusae</h3>
 714
 715 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
 716
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 722 <h2><a name="sec23" id="sec23"></a>
 723 Aristotle</h2>
 724
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 727 <h3><a name="sec24" id="sec24"></a>
 728 Ethics</h3>
 729
 730 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
 731
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 736 <h3><a name="sec25" id="sec25"></a>
 737 Categories</h3>
 738
 739 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
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 745 <h3><a name="sec26" id="sec26"></a>
 746 Poetics</h3>
 747
 748 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
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 754 <h3><a name="sec27" id="sec27"></a>
 755 Rhetoric</h3>
 756
 757 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
 758
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 764 <h2><a name="sec28" id="sec28"></a>
 765 Marcus Aurelius</h2>
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 769 <h3><a name="sec29" id="sec29"></a>
 770 Meditations</h3>
 771
 772 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••••• </span> (4) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
 773
 774 <p>At the time, I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on
 775 Stoic philosophy, and it was a fairly quick read (fifteen minutes a
 776 day over the course of two weeks for me). Nowadays I've read
 777 Epictetus, and I suggest reading his <em>Discourses</em> instead.</p>
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 782 <h2><a name="sec30" id="sec30"></a>
 783 William Blake</h2>
 784
 785 <p class="first">Blake is my <a href="William%20Blake.html">favorite</a> of the English poets. His
 786 unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
 787 interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality
 788 <a href="http://blakearchive.org">complete archive of Blake's works</a> online
 789 with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other
 790 things.</p>
 791
 792 <h3><a name="sec31" id="sec31"></a>
 793 The Four Zoas</h3>
 794
 795 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 796
 797 <p>The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The
 798 Four Zoas divide from Albion and rage through the ages of dismal woe
 799 to bring about the end of the cycle of Ulro and restore the cycle of
 800 Beulah.</p>
 801
 802
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 804 <h3><a name="sec32" id="sec32"></a>
 805 Jerusalem</h3>
 806
 807 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 808
 809 <p>The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.</p>
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 815 Albert Camus</h2>
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 820 The Plague</h3>
 821
 822 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
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 830 Mike Carey</h2>
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 834 <h3><a name="sec36" id="sec36"></a>
 835 Lucifer (series)</h3>
 836
 837 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 838
 839 <p>Of the <em>Sandman</em> spinoffs, <em>Lucifer</em> stands out as the best for
 840 the first half, but then the writer appears to take on far too great a
 841 task, and, with the introduction of some disagreeable character
 842 relations, fails to execute the story as well as it could have
 843 been. Still, it was worth reading to the end even though most of the
 844 stories after issue 35 or so were merely ok. If you like Kierkegaard I
 845 suggest issues 2, 3, and 62&mdash;they show the form of the incommensurable
 846 relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly.</p>
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 850
 851 <h2><a name="sec37" id="sec37"></a>
 852 Confucius</h2>
 853
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 856 <h3><a name="sec38" id="sec38"></a>
 857 Analects</h3>
 858
 859 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
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 866 <h2><a name="sec39" id="sec39"></a>
 867 Neil Gaiman</h2>
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 871 <h3><a name="sec40" id="sec40"></a>
 872 The Sandman (series)</h3>
 873
 874 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 875
 876 <p>Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say <em>The
 877 Sandman</em> as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has
 878 written.</p>
 879
 880
 881
 882 <h3><a name="sec41" id="sec41"></a>
 883 Good Omens</h3>
 884
 885 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 886
 887 <p>A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read
 888 so-called <em>normal people books</em>, and so she lent me <em>Good Omens</em>. It
 889 was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book
 890 magazines I read when I was small and the name <em>Sandman</em>; thus through
 891 one book I found something far greater.</p>
 892
 893
 894
 895 <h3><a name="sec42" id="sec42"></a>
 896 American Gods</h3>
 897
 898 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 899
 900 <p>Entertaining, but the end was a bit much rushed.</p>
 901
 902
 903
 904
 905 <h2><a name="sec43" id="sec43"></a>
 906 John Taylor Gatto</h2>
 907
 908 <p class="first">Former teacher and now author-activist.</p>
 909
 910 <h3><a name="sec44" id="sec44"></a>
 911 Underground History of American Education</h3>
 912
 913 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
 914
 915 <p>An interesting <em>underground</em> history of the American education
 916 system. Available
 917 <a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/">online for free</a>.</p>
 918
 919
 920
 921
 922 <h2><a name="sec45" id="sec45"></a>
 923 Kahlil Gibran</h2>
 924
 925 <p class="first">Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not
 926 agree with my æsthetic sense (blah blah), but <em>The Madman</em> onward are
 927 all rather nice. A few of his works are
 928 <a href="http://leb.net/~mira/">online</a>, but I recommend scouting used book
 929 stores for old hardcover editions. The (late 90s onward at least)
 930 <em>hardcover</em> versions from <em>Alfred A. Knopf</em> are in fact permabound
 931 paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to
 932 the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more,
 933 naturally).</p>
 934
 935 <h3><a name="sec46" id="sec46"></a>
 936 A Tear and a Smile</h3>
 937
 938 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••</span><span class="rating-bad">••••••• </span> (3) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 939
 940 <p>One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like <em>A
 941 Tear and a Smile</em> excepting the last poem (&quot;A Poet's Voice&quot;).</p>
 942
 943
 944
 945 <h3><a name="sec47" id="sec47"></a>
 946 The Prophet</h3>
 947
 948 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 949
 950
 951
 952
 953
 954 <h3><a name="sec48" id="sec48"></a>
 955 Sand and Foam</h3>
 956
 957 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 958
 959 <p>An interesting little book of aphorisms.</p>
 960
 961
 962
 963 <h3><a name="sec49" id="sec49"></a>
 964 The Madman</h3>
 965
 966 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 967
 968
 969
 970
 971
 972
 973 <h2><a name="sec50" id="sec50"></a>
 974 Homer</h2>
 975
 976
 977
 978 <h3><a name="sec51" id="sec51"></a>
 979 The Odyssey</h3>
 980
 981 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
 982
 983
 984
 985
 986
 987
 988 <h2><a name="sec52" id="sec52"></a>
 989 Aldous Huxley</h2>
 990
 991 <p class="first">Perhaps the most overrated modern writer. Other people have written
 992 everything he has to write better and many years before he got around
 993 to it.</p>
 994
 995 <h3><a name="sec53" id="sec53"></a>
 996 The Doors of Perception</h3>
 997
 998 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> </span><span class="rating-bad">•••••••••• </span> (0) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
 999
1000 <p>Huxley stains the name of Blake by naming this horrible
1001 pseudo-scientific and pseudo-poetic essay after a line from <em>The
1002 Marriage of Heaven and Hell</em>. Subjectivity and objectivity are
1003 incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
1004 utterly worthless.</p>
1005
1006
1007
1008 <h3><a name="sec54" id="sec54"></a>
1009 Heaven and Hell</h3>
1010
1011 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> </span><span class="rating-bad">•••••••••• </span> (0) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1012
1013 <p>Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
1014 Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.</p>
1015
1016
1017
1018 <h3><a name="sec55" id="sec55"></a>
1019 Brave New World</h3>
1020
1021 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1022
1023 <p>A nice light read; the story is obvious and by the hundreth page
1024 the ending is clear, but it provided a bit of a break from heavier
1025 reading for me. I must say that anyone who has read <em>Brave New World</em>
1026 and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of
1027 an <em>Epsilon</em>. <em>1984</em> is perhaps easily misread, but <em>Brave New World</em>
1028 is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside
1029 the head with a hammer.</p>
1030
1031
1032
1033
1034 <h2><a name="sec56" id="sec56"></a>
1035 William James</h2>
1036
1037
1038
1039 <h3><a name="sec57" id="sec57"></a>
1040 The Varieties of Religious Experience</h3>
1041
1042 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1043
1044 <p><a href="William%20James%20-%20The%20Varieties%20of%20Religious%20Experience.html">A partially finished extended summary</a></p>
1045
1046
1047
1048 <h3><a name="sec58" id="sec58"></a>
1049 The PhD Octopus</h3>
1050
1051 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1052
1053 <blockquote>
1054 <p class="quoted">
1055 America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things
1056 in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable
1057 unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which
1058 bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate.  It seems to me high
1059 time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye
1060 upon this decidedly grotesque tendency.  Other nations suffer terribly
1061 from the Mandarin disease.  Are we doomed to suffer like the rest?</p>
1062
1063 </blockquote>
1064
1065 <p><a href="William%20James%20-%20The%20PhD%20Octopus.html">Full Text</a></p>
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070 <h2><a name="sec59" id="sec59"></a>
1071 Henry James</h2>
1072
1073 <p class="first">The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read:
1074 one) of his books, but what I did was decent.</p>
1075
1076 <h3><a name="sec60" id="sec60"></a>
1077 The Altar of the Dead</h3>
1078
1079 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1080
1081 <p>A short novella about a man who maintained an altar in a church
1082 for all of his lost loved ones on the surface, but something a bit
1083 more beneath.</p>
1084
1085
1086
1087
1088 <h2><a name="sec61" id="sec61"></a>
1089 Gregor Kiczales</h2>
1090
1091
1092
1093 <h3><a name="sec62" id="sec62"></a>
1094 The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</h3>
1095
1096 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1097
1098 <p>AMOP is useful as a reference to the CLOS MOP (although less so with
1099 the online MOP spec), but the true value of the book lies in the first
1100 half of the book. It presents the design of the CLOS MOP through a
1101 series of revisions that fix limitations of earlier implementations
1102 and gradually work toward a generic and well designed MOP for
1103 CLOS. Through that process one is made more aware of a few general
1104 object protocol design skills, and gains insight into how to cleanly
1105 make mapping decisions customizable.</p>
1106
1107
1108
1109
1110 <h2><a name="sec63" id="sec63"></a>
1111 Søren Kierkegaard</h2>
1112
1113 <p class="first">Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is
1114 interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused
1115 disagreeable.</p>
1116
1117 <h3><a name="sec64" id="sec64"></a>
1118 Sickness Unto Death</h3>
1119
1120 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1121
1122 <p>I purchased this when I was looking through books at a store after
1123 being unable to find the book I really wanted, and I must say that it
1124 was better for me to have found this one.</p>
1125
1126 <p>Contained within is a beautiful analysis of despair in the context of
1127 Christianity (really theism in general). Even if the argument offends,
1128 the presentation cannot. The dialectical nature of despair is
1129 reflected in every aspect of the work, and the method of presentation
1130 forces reflection.</p>
1131
1132
1133
1134 <h3><a name="sec65" id="sec65"></a>
1135 Either/Or</h3>
1136
1137 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1138
1139 <p>Composed of two portions, <em>Either/Or</em> is a rather lengthy but
1140 rewarding read. The first book is a series of essays and a diary of a
1141 young esthetician; the second is a pair of long letters from an older
1142 ethicist friend to this esthetician. You are then left to resolve the
1143 conflict between the views.</p>
1144
1145
1146
1147 <h3><a name="sec66" id="sec66"></a>
1148 Fear and Trembling</h3>
1149
1150 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1151
1152 <p>An interesting dialectical lyric contrasting Despair and Faith.</p>
1153
1154
1155
1156 <h3><a name="sec67" id="sec67"></a>
1157 Repetition</h3>
1158
1159 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1160
1161 <p>He who despairs of esthetic repetition gets none; he who despairs
1162 of ethical repetition receieves the esthetic. Is it true then that no
1163 repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for?</p>
1164
1165
1166
1167 <h3><a name="sec68" id="sec68"></a>
1168 The Concept of Anxiety</h3>
1169
1170 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1171
1172 <p>...Very clearly an early work of Kierkegaard. It is rather formal
1173 and difficult to get through. I'd recommend reading a lot of other
1174 Kierkegaard before this.</p>
1175
1176
1177
1178
1179 <h2><a name="sec69" id="sec69"></a>
1180 Alisa Kwitney</h2>
1181
1182
1183
1184 <h3><a name="sec70" id="sec70"></a>
1185 Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</h3>
1186
1187 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1188
1189
1190
1191
1192
1193
1194 <h2><a name="sec71" id="sec71"></a>
1195 David Lamkins</h2>
1196
1197
1198
1199 <h3><a name="sec72" id="sec72"></a>
1200 Successful Lisp</h3>
1201
1202 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1203
1204 <p>After learning Scheme, I read <em>Successful Lisp</em> and was able to
1205 pick up Common Lisp fairly easily.</p>
1206
1207
1208
1209
1210 <h2><a name="sec73" id="sec73"></a>
1211 Mencius</h2>
1212
1213
1214
1215 <h3><a name="sec74" id="sec74"></a>
1216 Mencius</h3>
1217
1218 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1219
1220
1221
1222
1223
1224
1225 <h2><a name="sec75" id="sec75"></a>
1226 Walter Miller</h2>
1227
1228
1229
1230 <h3><a name="sec76" id="sec76"></a>
1231 A Canticle for Leibowitz</h3>
1232
1233 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1234
1235
1236
1237
1238
1239
1240 <h2><a name="sec77" id="sec77"></a>
1241 John Milton</h2>
1242
1243
1244
1245 <h3><a name="sec78" id="sec78"></a>
1246 Paradise Lost</h3>
1247
1248 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1249
1250
1251
1252
1253
1254
1255 <h2><a name="sec79" id="sec79"></a>
1256 Alan Moore</h2>
1257
1258
1259
1260 <h3><a name="sec80" id="sec80"></a>
1261 Watchmen</h3>
1262
1263 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1264
1265
1266
1267
1268
1269 <h3><a name="sec81" id="sec81"></a>
1270 V for Vendetta</h3>
1271
1272 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1273
1274
1275
1276
1277
1278
1279 <h2><a name="sec82" id="sec82"></a>
1280 Thomas More</h2>
1281
1282
1283
1284 <h3><a name="sec83" id="sec83"></a>
1285 Utopia</h3>
1286
1287 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1288
1289 <p>I read most of Utopia in high school with the TI-89 ebook reader, but
1290 the way the book was split up made it a bit difficult to grasp the
1291 overall structure. I found a copy at a used book store one day, and so
1292 I read it again, and found it much more comprehensible. It is a quick
1293 read, and decent piece of literature. The interesting social system
1294 espoused resembles resembles state communism (even if perhaps as a
1295 negative ideal), but with an strange blend of 14th century European
1296 social customs.</p>
1297
1298
1299
1300
1301 <h2><a name="sec84" id="sec84"></a>
1302 Friedrich Nietzsche</h2>
1303
1304 <p class="first">A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good <em>secular</em>
1305 counterpart to Kierkegaard's theistic philosophy. Nietzsche's
1306 polemical works raise important questions for anyone who reads works
1307 on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation
1308 by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay)
1309 only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
1310 polemic.</p>
1311
1312 <h3><a name="sec85" id="sec85"></a>
1313 Thus Spoke Zarathustra</h3>
1314
1315 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1316
1317 <p>A masterpiece of indirect communication depsite the occasional
1318 flaw and overly dramatic passage. Certainly a book worth reading many
1319 times over the course of one's life.</p>
1320
1321
1322
1323 <h3><a name="sec86" id="sec86"></a>
1324 Beyond Good and Evil</h3>
1325
1326 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1327
1328 <p>A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
1329 pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in <em>Thus Spoke
1330 Zarathustra</em> in the negative form. The final chapters are very
1331 important (not to detract from the value of the rest of the work) if
1332 one wishes to understand <em>On the Genealogy of Morals</em>.</p>
1333
1334
1335
1336 <h3><a name="sec87" id="sec87"></a>
1337 On the Geneaology of Morals</h3>
1338
1339 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1340
1341 <p><em>On the Geneaology of Morals</em> is a wonderful book of three
1342 polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethical valuations, and the
1343 blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
1344 these valuations unknowingly.</p>
1345
1346
1347
1348 <h3><a name="sec88" id="sec88"></a>
1349 Ecce Homo</h3>
1350
1351 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1352
1353 <p><em>Ecce Homo</em> is Nietzsche's very strange autobiography and
1354 explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have
1355 used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a
1356 catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as
1357 Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works.</p>
1358
1359
1360
1361
1362 <h2><a name="sec89" id="sec89"></a>
1363 George Orwell</h2>
1364
1365
1366
1367 <h3><a name="sec90" id="sec90"></a>
1368 1984</h3>
1369
1370 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1371
1372
1373
1374
1375
1376 <h3><a name="sec91" id="sec91"></a>
1377 Animal Farm</h3>
1378
1379 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1380
1381
1382
1383
1384
1385
1386 <h2><a name="sec92" id="sec92"></a>
1387 Plato</h2>
1388
1389
1390
1391 <h3><a name="sec93" id="sec93"></a>
1392 Symposium</h3>
1393
1394 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1395
1396
1397
1398
1399
1400 <h3><a name="sec94" id="sec94"></a>
1401 Euthyphro</h3>
1402
1403 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1404
1405
1406
1407
1408
1409 <h3><a name="sec95" id="sec95"></a>
1410 Apology</h3>
1411
1412 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1413
1414
1415
1416
1417
1418 <h3><a name="sec96" id="sec96"></a>
1419 Crito</h3>
1420
1421 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1422
1423
1424
1425
1426
1427 <h3><a name="sec97" id="sec97"></a>
1428 Phaedo</h3>
1429
1430 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1431
1432
1433
1434
1435
1436 <h3><a name="sec98" id="sec98"></a>
1437 Protagoras</h3>
1438
1439 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1440
1441
1442
1443
1444
1445
1446 <h2><a name="sec99" id="sec99"></a>
1447 Edgar Allan Poe</h2>
1448
1449 <p class="first">ULTRAGOTHIK</p>
1450
1451 <h3><a name="sec100" id="sec100"></a>
1452 Tales of Mystery and Suspense</h3>
1453
1454 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•••• </span> (6) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1455
1456 <p>This is when I learned that I still don't really like late 1800s
1457 American literature all that much. Some of the tales were worth
1458 reading, but most of it was not in a style I like all that much.</p>
1459
1460
1461
1462
1463 <h2><a name="sec101" id="sec101"></a>
1464 Luke Rhinehardt</h2>
1465
1466
1467
1468 <h3><a name="sec102" id="sec102"></a>
1469 The Dice Man</h3>
1470
1471 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1472
1473 <blockquote>
1474 <p class="quoted">
1475 And it's his illusions about what
1476 constitutes the real world which are
1477 inhibiting him...
1478 His reality, his reason, his society
1479 ...these are what must be destroyed</p>
1480
1481 </blockquote>
1482
1483 <p>A quotation from one of my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_of_the_Soul">favorite metal songs</a> inspired me to grab
1484 this book; at worst it would be a waste of time. Much reward was found
1485 in this random stab in the dark. The book is framed as an
1486 autobiography of the author as a psychoanalyst, and his progression
1487 through life as a Dice Man after deciding to live his life through
1488 random chance.</p>
1489
1490 <p>The style, plot, and content are equally neurotic; part comedy, part
1491 attack on psychoanalysis, and part deep philosophy. It was often
1492 difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time.</p>
1493
1494
1495
1496
1497 <h2><a name="sec103" id="sec103"></a>
1498 Neal Stephenson</h2>
1499
1500
1501
1502 <h3><a name="sec104" id="sec104"></a>
1503 Snow Crash</h3>
1504
1505 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1506
1507 <p>As one must read the <em>Bible</em> to understand English literature, so one
1508 must read <em>Snow Crash</em> today to be a nerd. In the realm of modern pop
1509 fiction this is one of the better books I've read; it was devoured in
1510 a mere four nights. Neal Stepheson may not be Milton, but he does come
1511 up with enganging tales. <em>Snow Crash</em> has a nice undertone of (quite
1512 accurate) political and social commentary that makes it worth reading
1513 as more than mere cyberpunk fiction.</p>
1514
1515
1516
1517 <h3><a name="sec105" id="sec105"></a>
1518 Cryptonomicon</h3>
1519
1520 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1521
1522 <p>I read <em>Cryptonomicon</em> when it was new, and at the time I thought it was
1523 good. It could have lost a hundred or so pages without detracting from
1524 the plot, but it was easy reading and didn't take very long to
1525 finish. The story was enganging, and the continual switching between
1526 the 1940s and present day slowly unravelled the tale in a nice way.</p>
1527
1528 <p>I'd still have to recommend <em>Snow Crash</em> if one wished to read only one
1529 Stephenson novel.</p>
1530
1531
1532
1533
1534 <h2><a name="sec106" id="sec106"></a>
1535 Bjarne Stroustrup</h2>
1536
1537
1538
1539 <h3><a name="sec107" id="sec107"></a>
1540 The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</h3>
1541
1542 <p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1543
1544 <p>Once upon a time I was fifteen and I read this book. It was more
1545 or less what taught me how to write programs just large enough to do
1546 useful things, and so shall forever be remembered by me. A year and a
1547 half later I stumbled upon a little language called Scheme and fell
1548 down the rabbit hole.</p>
1549
1550
1551
1552
1553 <h2><a name="sec108" id="sec108"></a>
1554 JRR Tolkien</h2>
1555
1556
1557
1558 <h3><a name="sec109" id="sec109"></a>
1559 The Lord of the Rings</h3>
1560
1561 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1562
1563
1564
1565
1566
1567 <h3><a name="sec110" id="sec110"></a>
1568 The Silmarillion</h3>
1569
1570 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1571
1572
1573
1574
1575
1576 <h3><a name="sec111" id="sec111"></a>
1577 The Lost Tales</h3>
1578
1579 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
1585
1586 <h2><a name="sec112" id="sec112"></a>
1587 Kurt Vonnegut</h2>
1588
1589
1590
1591 <h3><a name="sec113" id="sec113"></a>
1592 Cat's Cradle</h3>
1593
1594 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1595
1596 <p>There are few books that I have started to read before sleeping
1597 and found myself watching the sun rise after finishing. <em>Cat's Cradle</em>
1598 is definitely required nerd reading.</p>
1599
1600
1601
1602
1603 <h2><a name="sec114" id="sec114"></a>
1604 H.G. Wells</h2>
1605
1606
1607
1608 <h3><a name="sec115" id="sec115"></a>
1609 The Island of Dr Moreau</h3>
1610
1611 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
1612
1613
1614
1615
1616
1617
1618 <h2><a name="sec116" id="sec116"></a>
1619 Robert Anton Wilson</h2>
1620
1621 <p class="first">Or rather, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea (but my book script
1622 updating thing doesn't do multiple authors</p>
1623
1624 <h3><a name="sec117" id="sec117"></a>
1625 The Illuminatus! Trilogy</h3>
1626
1627 <p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
1628
1629 <p>e-cash MP5K-SD Adriatic Bellcore Lon Horiuchi 9705 Samford Road
1630 jihad New World Order AVN FTS2000 ANZUS subversive SAPO PET Armani</p>
1631
1632
1633
1634
1635 <h2><a name="sec118" id="sec118"></a>
1636 Yevgeny Zamyatin</h2>
1637
1638
1639
1640 <h3><a name="sec119" id="sec119"></a>
1641 We</h3>
1642
1643 <p><em>Fiction</em></p>
1644
1645
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