From: clinton Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:59:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a bunch more books X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/clinton/website/src/unknownlamer.org.git/commitdiff_plain/381472177a837d23f872a2808c9b5b5a86b27e63 Add a bunch more books --- diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp index e2cba2b..15f1a36 100644 --- a/book-list.lisp +++ b/book-list.lisp @@ -204,4 +204,67 @@ these valuations unknowingly.") explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as -Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works."))) \ No newline at end of file +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) + ("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 Peytoe blah blah I'm +Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.")) + ((|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)))