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Captain's Verses
swept-away-by-love poems written during his idyll on Capri by Pablo Neruda
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Selected poetry
Emily Dickinson.
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To kill a mockingbird
Had to read this classic for school. By Harper Lee.
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Anything for a vote
Book about all the mudslinging and dirty tricks in presidential elections from George Washington
to Bush vs Kerry.
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Books
A Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
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Njal's Saga
THE Viking Saga
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A Brave New World
A Brave New World is a very good book about a distopia in the future, but everyone living
under it thinks that it is good. Everyone in the world used a drug called Soma, in varying
intensities, to dull reality and cope with unpleasant events. Human are engineered to be of a
certain intelligence, from "semi morons" all the way up to "alpha plus" varieties. Manual labor
would be performed by a semi moron where as intellectual work would be performed by an
alpha plus.
The book raises man questions about society, the future and drugs. Defiantly worth the read.
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Brave New World
The distopian genre reached a new height with the publication of that book, not surpassed, in my opinion, until Orwell penned his all-time classic, "1984."
When John the Savage threw the 'soma' rations out of the window, it called to mind the story of Jesus and the money changers in the Temple of Jerusalem. (I am aware that Huxley was a soul on a journey into the world of Eastern Mysticism and not a Christian, by the way.) Nothing draws the scrutiny of the authorities faster than inciting a riot. His outrage at the corruption of the 'perfect society' had come to a head and burst in a fit of rage.
Loved the book, Praise the Ford.
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Mexico and Central America Mythology
The MYth of the Mayas,Toltecas, Aztecas, etc
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The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells. The father of Science Fiction.
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Notes from The Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Aristophanes
The Greek playwright's plays.
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The Great Gasby
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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