<dt>
<a href="#sec51">Heaven and Hell</a>
</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec52">Brave New World</a>
+</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec52">William James</a>
+<a href="#sec53">William James</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec53">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a>
+<a href="#sec54">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec54">The PhD Octopus</a>
+<a href="#sec55">The PhD Octopus</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec55">Henry James</a>
+<a href="#sec56">Henry James</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec56">The Altar of the Dead</a>
+<a href="#sec57">The Altar of the Dead</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec57">Gregor Kiczales</a>
+<a href="#sec58">Gregor Kiczales</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec58">The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</a>
+<a href="#sec59">The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec59">Søren Kierkegaard</a>
+<a href="#sec60">Søren Kierkegaard</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec60">Sickness Unto Death</a>
+<a href="#sec61">Sickness Unto Death</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec61">Either/Or</a>
+<a href="#sec62">Either/Or</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec62">Fear and Trembling</a>
+<a href="#sec63">Fear and Trembling</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec63">Repetition</a>
+<a href="#sec64">Repetition</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec64">Alisa Kwitney</a>
+<a href="#sec65">Alisa Kwitney</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec65">Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</a>
+<a href="#sec66">Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec66">David Lamkins</a>
+<a href="#sec67">David Lamkins</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec67">Successful Lisp</a>
+<a href="#sec68">Successful Lisp</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec68">Mencius</a>
+<a href="#sec69">Mencius</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec69">Mencius</a>
+<a href="#sec70">Mencius</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec70">Walter Miller</a>
+<a href="#sec71">Walter Miller</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec71">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a>
+<a href="#sec72">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec72">John Milton</a>
+<a href="#sec73">John Milton</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec73">Paradise Lost</a>
+<a href="#sec74">Paradise Lost</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec74">Alan Moore</a>
+<a href="#sec75">Alan Moore</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec75">Watchmen</a>
+<a href="#sec76">Watchmen</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec76">V for Vendetta</a>
+<a href="#sec77">V for Vendetta</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec77">Thomas More</a>
+<a href="#sec78">Thomas More</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec78">Utopia</a>
+<a href="#sec79">Utopia</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec79">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>
+<a href="#sec80">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec80">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a>
+<a href="#sec81">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec81">Beyond Good and Evil</a>
+<a href="#sec82">Beyond Good and Evil</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec82">On the Geneaology of Morals</a>
+<a href="#sec83">On the Geneaology of Morals</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec83">Ecce Homo</a>
+<a href="#sec84">Ecce Homo</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec84">George Orwell</a>
+<a href="#sec85">George Orwell</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec85">1984</a>
+<a href="#sec86">1984</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec86">Animal Farm</a>
+<a href="#sec87">Animal Farm</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec87">Plato</a>
+<a href="#sec88">Plato</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec88">Symposium</a>
+<a href="#sec89">Symposium</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec89">Euthyphro</a>
+<a href="#sec90">Euthyphro</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec90">Apology</a>
+<a href="#sec91">Apology</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec91">Crito</a>
+<a href="#sec92">Crito</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec92">Phaedo</a>
+<a href="#sec93">Phaedo</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec93">Protagoras</a>
+<a href="#sec94">Protagoras</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec94">Luke Rhinehardt</a>
+<a href="#sec95">Luke Rhinehardt</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec95">The Dice Man</a>
+<a href="#sec96">The Dice Man</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec96">Neal Stephenson</a>
+<a href="#sec97">Neal Stephenson</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec97">Snow Crash</a>
+<a href="#sec98">Snow Crash</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec98">Cryptonomicon</a>
+<a href="#sec99">Cryptonomicon</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec99">Bjarne Stroustrup</a>
+<a href="#sec100">Bjarne Stroustrup</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec100">The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</a>
+<a href="#sec101">The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec101">JRR Tolkien</a>
+<a href="#sec102">JRR Tolkien</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec102">The Lord of the Rings</a>
+<a href="#sec103">The Lord of the Rings</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec104">The Silmarillion</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec105">The Lost Tales</a>
</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec103">The Silmarillion</a>
+<a href="#sec106">Kurt Vonnegut</a>
</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec104">The Lost Tales</a>
+<a href="#sec107">Cat's Cradle</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec105">H.G. Wells</a>
+<a href="#sec108">H.G. Wells</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec106">The Island of Dr Moreau</a>
+<a href="#sec109">The Island of Dr Moreau</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec107">Yevgeny Zamyatin</a>
+<a href="#sec110">Yevgeny Zamyatin</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec108">We</a>
+<a href="#sec111">We</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
+<h3><a name="sec52" id="sec52"></a>
+Brave New World</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>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 <em>Brave New World</em>
+and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of
+an <em>Epsilon</em>. <em>1984</em> is perhaps easily misread, but <em>Brave New World</em>
+is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside
+the head with a hammer.</p>
+
-<h2><a name="sec52" id="sec52"></a>
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec53" id="sec53"></a>
William James</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec53" id="sec53"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec54" id="sec54"></a>
The Varieties of Religious Experience</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec54" id="sec54"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec55" id="sec55"></a>
The PhD Octopus</h3>
<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec55" id="sec55"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec56" id="sec56"></a>
Henry James</h2>
<p class="first">The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read:
one) of his books, but what I did was decent.</p>
-<h3><a name="sec56" id="sec56"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec57" id="sec57"></a>
The Altar of the Dead</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec57" id="sec57"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec58" id="sec58"></a>
Gregor Kiczales</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec58" id="sec58"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec59" id="sec59"></a>
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec59" id="sec59"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec60" id="sec60"></a>
Søren Kierkegaard</h2>
<p class="first">Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is
interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused
disagreeable.</p>
-<h3><a name="sec60" id="sec60"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec61" id="sec61"></a>
Sickness Unto Death</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec61" id="sec61"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec62" id="sec62"></a>
Either/Or</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec62" id="sec62"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec63" id="sec63"></a>
Fear and Trembling</h3>
<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec63" id="sec63"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec64" id="sec64"></a>
Repetition</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec64" id="sec64"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec65" id="sec65"></a>
Alisa Kwitney</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec65" id="sec65"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec66" id="sec66"></a>
Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec66" id="sec66"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec67" id="sec67"></a>
David Lamkins</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec67" id="sec67"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec68" id="sec68"></a>
Successful Lisp</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec68" id="sec68"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec69" id="sec69"></a>
Mencius</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec69" id="sec69"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec70" id="sec70"></a>
Mencius</h3>
<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec70" id="sec70"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec71" id="sec71"></a>
Walter Miller</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec71" id="sec71"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec72" id="sec72"></a>
A Canticle for Leibowitz</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec72" id="sec72"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec73" id="sec73"></a>
John Milton</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec73" id="sec73"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec74" id="sec74"></a>
Paradise Lost</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec74" id="sec74"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec75" id="sec75"></a>
Alan Moore</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec75" id="sec75"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec76" id="sec76"></a>
Watchmen</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec76" id="sec76"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec77" id="sec77"></a>
V for Vendetta</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec77" id="sec77"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec78" id="sec78"></a>
Thomas More</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec78" id="sec78"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec79" id="sec79"></a>
Utopia</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec79" id="sec79"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec80" id="sec80"></a>
Friedrich Nietzsche</h2>
<p class="first">A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good <em>secular</em>
only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
polemic.</p>
-<h3><a name="sec80" id="sec80"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec81" id="sec81"></a>
Thus Spoke Zarathustra</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec81" id="sec81"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec82" id="sec82"></a>
Beyond Good and Evil</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec82" id="sec82"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec83" id="sec83"></a>
On the Geneaology of Morals</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec83" id="sec83"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec84" id="sec84"></a>
Ecce Homo</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec84" id="sec84"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec85" id="sec85"></a>
George Orwell</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec85" id="sec85"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec86" id="sec86"></a>
1984</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec86" id="sec86"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec87" id="sec87"></a>
Animal Farm</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec87" id="sec87"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec88" id="sec88"></a>
Plato</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec88" id="sec88"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec89" id="sec89"></a>
Symposium</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec89" id="sec89"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec90" id="sec90"></a>
Euthyphro</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec90" id="sec90"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec91" id="sec91"></a>
Apology</h3>
<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec91" id="sec91"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec92" id="sec92"></a>
Crito</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec92" id="sec92"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec93" id="sec93"></a>
Phaedo</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec93" id="sec93"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec94" id="sec94"></a>
Protagoras</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec94" id="sec94"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec95" id="sec95"></a>
Luke Rhinehardt</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec95" id="sec95"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec96" id="sec96"></a>
The Dice Man</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec96" id="sec96"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec97" id="sec97"></a>
Neal Stephenson</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec97" id="sec97"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec98" id="sec98"></a>
Snow Crash</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec98" id="sec98"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec99" id="sec99"></a>
Cryptonomicon</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">•• </span> (8) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec99" id="sec99"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec100" id="sec100"></a>
Bjarne Stroustrup</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec100" id="sec100"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec101" id="sec101"></a>
The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)</h3>
<p><em>Nonfiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec101" id="sec101"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec102" id="sec102"></a>
JRR Tolkien</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec102" id="sec102"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec103" id="sec103"></a>
The Lord of the Rings</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec103" id="sec103"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec104" id="sec104"></a>
The Silmarillion</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> ••••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad"> </span> (10) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h3><a name="sec104" id="sec104"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec105" id="sec105"></a>
The Lost Tales</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec105" id="sec105"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec106" id="sec106"></a>
+Kurt Vonnegut</h2>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec107" id="sec107"></a>
+Cat's Cradle</h3>
+
+<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">• </span> (9) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
+
+<p>There are few books that I have started to read before sleeping
+and found myself watching the sun rise after finishing. <em>Cat's Cradle</em>
+is definitely required nerd reading.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec108" id="sec108"></a>
H.G. Wells</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec106" id="sec106"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec109" id="sec109"></a>
The Island of Dr Moreau</h3>
<p><em>Rating:</em> <span class="rating-good"> •••••••</span><span class="rating-bad">••• </span> (7) / <em>Fiction</em></p>
-<h2><a name="sec107" id="sec107"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec110" id="sec110"></a>
Yevgeny Zamyatin</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec108" id="sec108"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec111" id="sec111"></a>
We</h3>
<p><em>Fiction</em></p>
</a>
</p>
-<p class="cke-footer">Lindsay (Carlton): nighttime baker! sounds a little iffy
+<p class="cke-footer">Lindsay (Carlton): should i eat more post its
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- March 2, 2009</p>
+ October 27, 2009</p>
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