+Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works."))
+ ((|Aristotle|)
+ nil
+ ("Ethics"
+ :nonfiction nil)
+ ("Categories"
+ :nonfiction nil)
+ ("Poetics"
+ :nonfiction nil)
+;;; ("Prior Analytics"
+;;; :nonfiction nil
+;;; "*Prior Analytics* is essential reading if one wishes to understand
+;;; [[Term Logic][traditional logic]]. Given that traditional logic is
+;;; used by most philosophers prior to the mid-1800s it is a *bit*
+;;; important. Luckily *Prior Analytics* is
+;;; [[http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8pra/index.html][available online for free]] and is fairly short.")
+ ("Rhetoric"
+ :nonfiction nil))
+ ((|Aristophanes|)
+ nil
+ ("The Frogs" :fiction nil)
+ ("The Clouds" :fiction nil)
+ ("Ecclesiazusae" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Plato|)
+ nil
+ ("Symposium" :fiction nil)
+ ("Euthyphro" :fiction nil)
+ ("Apology" :nonfiction nil)
+ ("Crito" :fiction nil)
+ ("Phaedo" :nonfiction 10)
+ ("Protagoras" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Aeschylus|)
+ nil
+ ("Oresteia":fiction 10)
+ ("Prometheus Bound" :fiction 9)
+ ("The Persians" :fiction 8))
+ ((|Homer|)
+ nil
+ ("The Odyssey" :fiction 10))
+ ((|George| |Orwell|)
+ nil
+ ("1984" :fiction 10)
+ ("Animal Farm" :fiction nil))
+ ((|Aldous| |Huxley|)
+ "Perhaps the most overrated modern writer. Other people have written
+everything he has to write better and many years before he got around
+to it."
+ ("The Doors of Perception"
+ :nonfiction 0
+ "Huxley stains the name of Blake by naming this horrible
+pseudo-scientific and pseudo-poetic essay after a line from *The
+Marriage of Heaven and Hell*. Subjectivity and objectivity are
+incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
+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.")
+ ("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)
+ ("The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" :fiction 6))
+ ((|H.G.| |Wells|)
+ nil
+ ("The Island of Dr Moreau" :fiction 7))
+ ((|JRR| |Tolkien|)
+ nil
+ ("The Lord of the Rings" :fiction 9)
+ ("The Silmarillion" :fiction 10)
+ ("The Lost Tales" :fiction 7))
+ ((|Bjarne| |Stroustrup|)
+ nil
+ ("The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)"
+ :nonfiction nil
+ "Once upon a time I was fifteen and I read this book. It was more
+or less what taught me how to write programs just large enough to do
+useful things, and so shall forever be remembered by me. A year and a
+half later I stumbled upon a little language called Scheme and fell
+down the rabbit hole."))
+ ((|Confucius|)
+ nil
+ ("Analects" :nonfiction nil))
+ ((|Mencius|)
+ nil
+ ("Mencius" :nonfiction nil))
+ ((|Walter| |Miller|)
+ 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
+pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))
+ ((|John| |Allison|)
+ "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."
+ ("Looks, Brains and Everything" :fiction nil)
+ ("Blame the Sky" :fiction nil)
+ ("Skellington" :fiction nil)
+ ("The Retribution Index" :fiction nil)
+ ("Great Aches" :fiction nil)
+ ("Ahoy Hoy!" :fiction nil)
+ ("Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers" :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."))
+ ((|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)))
+
+
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