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A Confederacy of Dunces

March 31, 2009

In my opinion, A Confederacy of Dunces is a crappy novel.  I think the only reason it was published was because its author, John Kennedy Toole, killed himself.  After his death, his mommy pushed to get this piece of drivel published and Toole was (posthumously) awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  I read the novel [...]

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Book Review – The Innocent Mage, The Awakened Mage

January 18, 2009

This review will be a twofer:  The Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage, by Karen Miller.  These two books are in the “Kingmaker, Kingbreaker” series – which is kind of misleading because I generally consider a series more than three books.  I passed these books up a while back when I was looking for something [...]

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Atlas Shrugged

January 15, 2009

Monday saw a Wall Street Journal Post by senior economics writer (editorial page) Steven Moore regarding the similarities between our current economic climate and those of Ayn Rand‘s historic novel Atlas Shrugged.  I have reproduced the text of the article below, but feel free to click here for the official version. This article quickly became a [...]

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Book Review – Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner

January 12, 2009

Last year, when I started blogging on myspace and was looking for things to blog about, I started a list of the books I’d read. I continued to update it all year, and eventually transferred it here. You can see the final post here. Toward the end of last year, I also found goodreads.com; you [...]

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Books I’ve Read in 2008

December 26, 2008

Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson) Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson) Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson) House of Chains (Steven Erikson) The Bonehunters (Steven Erikson) The Worm Ouroboros (E.R. Eddison) A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin) A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin) A Storm of Swords (George R.R. Martin) A Feast for Crows (George [...]

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What Am I?

December 16, 2008

Does that make me a Pragmatic Zen Capitalist?

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10 Lines from MacBeth

December 12, 2008

I (finally) finished reading Alan Watts’ autobiography In My Own Way.  I think it might be the first autobiography I’ve ever finished.  I started reading John Stuart Mill’s autobio many years ago but was, alas, not mature enough to read it (or finish it).  I’ve also made it about 2/3 of the way through Ghandi’s [...]

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