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    :fiction 10
    "Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say *The
 Sandman* as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has
-written."))
+written.")
+  ("Good Omens"
+   :fiction 8
+   "A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read
+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."))
  ((|William| |Blake|)
   "Blake is my [[William Blake][favorite]] of the English poets. His
 unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
@@ -186,6 +193,11 @@ 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
@@ -196,7 +208,7 @@ one wishes to understand *On the Genealogy of Morals*.")
   ("On the Geneaology of Morals"
    :nonfiction 9
    "*On the Geneaology of Morals* is a wonderful book of three
-polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the
+polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethical valuations, and the
 blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
 these valuations unknowingly.")
   ("Ecce Homo"
@@ -261,8 +273,17 @@ incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
 utterly worthless.")
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0
-   "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peytoe blah blah I'm
-Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother."))
+   "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
+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)
@@ -294,12 +315,13 @@ down the rabbit hole."))
   nil
   ("A Canticle for Leibowitz" :fiction 10))
  ((|David| |Lamkins|)
+  nil
   ("Successful Lisp"
-   :nonfiction 8
-   "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to
+    :nonfiction 8
+    "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to
 pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))
  ((|John| |Allison|)
-  "The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][ScaryGo Round]. 
+  "The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][Scary Go Round]]. 
 I highly recommend procuring the printed collections; the printing
 quality is superb (full color on glossy paper), and the long story
 arcs are much easier to read."
@@ -310,5 +332,36 @@ arcs are much easier to read."
   ("Great Aches" :fiction nil)
   ("Ahoy Hoy!" :fiction nil)
   ("Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers" :fiction nil)
-  ("Ghosts" :fiction nil)))
+  ("Ghosts" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Mike| |Carey|)
+  nil
+  ("Lucifer (series)"
+   :fiction 6
+   "Of the *Sandman* spinoffs, *Lucifer* stands out as the best for
+the first half, but then the writer appears to take on far too great a
+task, and, with the introduction of some disagreeable character
+relations, fails to execute the story as well as it could have
+been. Still, it was worth reading to the end even though most of the
+stories after issue 35 or so were merely ok. If you like Kierkegaard I
+suggest issues 2, 3, and 62--they show the form of the incommensurable
+relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly."))
+ ((|Anonymous|)
+  nil
+  ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Alisa| |Kwitney|)
+  nil
+  ("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.")))