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Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
God what a relief after drudging through that awful Heidegger crap. Hesse writes in two voices. One is the almost medieval voice of Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Peter Camenzind — and … more →
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Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
wrote 1 year ago: God what a relief after drudging through that awful Heidegger crap. Hesse writes in two voices. One … more →
Nietzsche Volume One by Martin Heidegger
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wrote 1 year ago: This book has a bad smell. I am 30 pages in and I see much Heidegger and little Nietzsche. Heidegger … more →
40th Birthday Project -- First Quarter Update
wrote 1 year ago: A couple of things — I am still using LibraryThing, but I am posting my progress as I go on Vi … more →
Autobiography by John Oxenford Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
wrote 1 year ago: this book is amazing — it is clear where Nietzsche developed some of his ideas. Goethe stands … more →
Ovid's Metamorphoses
wrote 1 year ago: I was totally unprepared for what a relevant and inspiring piece of literature this was. I have alwa … more →
Goethe and True Will
wrote 1 year ago: One of the beautiful things about a reading project is, of course, the incredible things you get to … more →
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
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wrote 1 year ago: An exquisite novella — a perfect first work in that it is the key to all of Nabokov’s la … more →
Peter Camenzind: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
wrote 1 year ago: A wonderful story which outlines a series of events where a man (Peter Camenzind) confronts a situat … more →
None So Blind by Joe Haldeman
wrote 1 year ago: Excellent book of short stories — it feels like Haldeman is pulling away from Science Fiction with t … more →
Buying Time by Joe Haldeman
wrote 1 year ago: I started this long ago but I am not sure if I finished it. It’s funny — I think Haldeman’s less SF … more →
Mimesis by Erich Auerbach
wrote 1 year ago: It would be difficult to overstate the significance of this book — Auerbach traces the emergence of … more →
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
wrote 1 year ago: He makes the points that Nietzsche’s ideas, if taken to literally, create irresolvable paradoxes — a … more →
James' top 25 Books of all time
wrote 1 year ago: In case you didn’t make it to the end of project XXXV this is my list of 25 most important/fav … more →
Project XXXV
wrote 1 year ago: For those with short memories, this is the birthday project I did when I was 35, which was significa … more →
40th Birthday Project in answer to my detractors real and imaginary
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wrote 1 year ago: To My Critics on my 40th Birthday How arrogant, to assume that one matters enough to have critics. I … more →
