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Books you read in '08
There's no way I'm going to finish another book this year, so I say the time for this thread has arrived. Here's my list, with attendant ratings:
- The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar - 8.5
- Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles - 6.5
- In a Budding Grove by Proust - 8
- Buddhist Wisdom (Diamond & Heart Sutras w/commentaries by Edward Conze) - 9.5
- Poetics by Aristotle - 6.5
- The Dhammapada - 7.5
- Buddhist Scriptures (edited by Conze) - 9
- Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (edited by E. A. Burtt) - 9.5
- The Awakening of Faith by Asvaghosa - 7.5
- Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna w/commentary by Garfield - 9
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse - 4
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick - 6
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Tutuola - 7.5
- Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche - 8.5
- Critique of Pure Reason by Kant - 10
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes - 7
- Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu - 4
- Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown - 7.5
- Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg - 9
- Analects by Confucius - 5.5
- Danton's Death by Buchner - 9
- Woyzeck by Buchner - 7
- The Gossamer Years (translated by Seidensticker) - 6
- Confessions by St. Augustine - 7
- Chimera by Barth - 6.5
- The Goblin Market by Rossetti - 7
- Sculpting in Time by Tarkovsky - 6.5
Books I read a significant portion of but haven't finished:
Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Ideas by Husserl
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Book I had previously read a significant portion of, and which I read another significant portion of this year, but that I still haven't finished:
Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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