Summer reading list.

[1_2_suckerpunch]

Utopia (Thomas More)
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra* (Fredrich Nietzsche)
The History of God* (Karen Armstrong)
A Brief History of Ireland (Paul F. State)
The Bhagavad-Gita
Evil in Modern Thought* (Susan Naiman)
Tao Te Ching*
*=ones I've already started but never finished

Also, a re-read of the Artemis Fowl series (Eoin

Comments

[sarcasticgeek]

i have wanted to read your first three for years.

[1_2_suckerpunch]

I own them, you can borrow them when I'm done if you want.

[misfitloser2112]

'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is very touchy for me. I read a good portion of it with my English 120 class this past semester. My professor was German, so he had a hand in our translation. (He got pissed when German-to-English translations missed the big picture.) This specific work bothers me because this is the work that was basically Hitler's touch stone. (The Übermensch is Hitler's perfect Aryan race.) I know it's an important read, because it's Nietzsche. I personally just happen to find his entire philosophy in this work full of a tremendous amount of shit. I'm not a Nietzsche fan, and I'm not afraid to say it.

'The Bhagavad-Gita' is a good read. I had to read it for a History class, and I was happy I did. I have a few Hindu friends, and it's always good to understand more about where people are coming from religiously.

Yours,
Kelly

[1_2_suckerpunch]

The first three of the list are ones that I feel are simply important works to have read, considering what they've spawned.

I've read bits of the BG before but never sat down with it all the way through. I should probably add the Koran to this list too, since I really only got 2/3 of the way through.

[eat_more_brains]

I vote you add some Salman Rushdie to the list. Fits the overall density of your books, but gives you a little fiction to lighten the load.

[1_2_suckerpunch]

I found The Satanic Verses in a used bookstore the other day but didn't purchase it...perhaps I'll have to.