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@@ -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"
@@ -193,6 +201,11 @@ on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation
 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."
+  ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
+   :fiction 8
+   "A 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.")
   ("Beyond Good and Evil"
    :nonfiction 8
    "A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
@@ -269,7 +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)
@@ -336,5 +358,36 @@ relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly."))
   ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz" :fiction nil))
  ((|Alisa| |Kwitney|)
   nil
-  ("Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold" :fiction 8)))
+  ("Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold" :fiction 8))
+ ((|John| |Milton|)
+  nil
+  ("Paradise Lost" :fiction 10))
+ ((|Yevgeny| |Zamyatin|)
+  nil
+  ("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)))
+