From 338c039f43df274389b90ad7a83c5d4b60c5b2c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clinton Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:26:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Finished the /Lucifer/ series Fixed the Scarygoround and /Successful Lisp/ formatting and added a couple of more books I finished long ago. --- book-list.lisp | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp index ef94172..60b86c6 100644 --- a/book-list.lisp +++ b/book-list.lisp @@ -294,12 +294,13 @@ down the rabbit hole.")) nil ("A Canticle for Leibowitz" :fiction 10)) ((|David| |Lamkins|) - (("Successful Lisp" + nil + ("Successful Lisp" :nonfiction 8 "After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to -pick up Common Lisp fairly easily."))) +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 +311,23 @@ 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))) -- 2.20.1