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- - (7) / FictionA 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.
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@@ -1007,13 +956,13 @@ from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest? -The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read: one) of his books, but what I did was decent.
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@@ -1047,14 +996,14 @@ make mapping decisions customizable. - (10) / NonfictionKierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused disagreeable.
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@@ -1071,7 +1020,7 @@ forces reflection. - (10) / NonfictionRating:
@@ -1084,7 +1033,7 @@ conflict between the views. - (10) / NonfictionNonfiction
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@@ -1105,12 +1054,12 @@ repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for? - (10) / NonfictionRating:
@@ -1120,12 +1069,12 @@ Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold - (8) / FictionRating:
@@ -1136,12 +1085,12 @@ pick up Common Lisp fairly easily. - (8) / NonfictionNonfiction
@@ -1151,12 +1100,12 @@ Mencius -Rating:
@@ -1166,27 +1115,12 @@ A Canticle for Leibowitz - (10) / FictionRating:
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@@ -1195,7 +1129,7 @@ Watchmen - (8) / FictionRating:
@@ -1205,12 +1139,12 @@ V for Vendetta - (10) / FictionRating:
@@ -1227,7 +1161,7 @@ social customs. - (7) / FictionA bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good secular @@ -1238,18 +1172,7 @@ by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay) only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the polemic.
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- - (8) / FictionA masterpiece of indirect communication depsite the occasional -flaw and overly dramatic passage. Certainly a book worth reading many -times over the course of one's life.
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@@ -1262,7 +1185,7 @@ one wishes to understand On the Genealogy of Morals. - (8) / NonfictionRating:
@@ -1274,7 +1197,7 @@ these valuations unknowingly. - (9) / NonfictionRating:
@@ -1288,12 +1211,12 @@ Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works. - (7) / NonfictionRating:
@@ -1302,7 +1225,7 @@ George Orwell - (10) / FictionFiction
@@ -1312,12 +1235,12 @@ Animal Farm -Fiction
@@ -1326,7 +1249,7 @@ Symposium -Fiction
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@@ -1362,7 +1285,7 @@ Phaedo - (10) / NonfictionFiction
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@@ -1406,12 +1329,12 @@ difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time. - (7) / FictionRating:
@@ -1426,7 +1349,7 @@ as more than mere cyberpunk fiction. - (9) / FictionRating:
@@ -1443,12 +1366,12 @@ Stephenson novel. - (8) / FictionNonfiction
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@@ -1476,7 +1399,7 @@ The Lord of the Rings - (9) / FictionRating:
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- - (9) / FictionThere 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.
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