current reading : last updated 07.28.02

julius evola : introduction to magic
julius evola : the doctrine of awakening
hermann hesse : peter camenzind
hermann hesse : pictor's metamorphases
hermann hesse : rosshalde
friedrich nietzsche : human, all too human
friedrich nietzsche : will to power
elaine pagels : adam, eve and the serpent
elaine pagels : the origin of satan
jean paul sartre : being and nothingness
gore vidal : messiah

past favorites

fiction

> nelson algren : the man with the golden arm
charles bukowski : love is a dog from hell
charles bukowski : post office
charles bukowski : you get so alone sometimes that it just makes sense
william s burroughs : junky
albert camus : exile and the kingdom
> albert camus : notebooks 1935 - 1951
> albert camus : the fall
> albert camus : the first man
albert camus : the stranger
> leonard cohen : beautiful losers
> leonard cohen : stranger music
> leonard cohen : the favourite game
dennis cooper : closer
> dennis cooper : period
> dennis cooper : try
> fyodor dostoevsky : notes from underground
> jean genet : the balcony
hermann hesse : beneath the wheel
> hermann hesse : demian
hermann hesse : fairy tales
> hermann hesse : journey to the east
> hermann hesse : the glass bead game
franz kafka : the metamorphasis and other stories
franz kafka : the trial
> yukio mishima : confessions of a mask
> yukio mishima : temple of dawn
yukio mishima : the sailor who fell with grace from the sea
> peter sotos : lazy
gore vidal : kalki

mathematics and physics

albert einstein : relativity
richard feynman : character of physical law
richard feynman : qed : the strange theory of light and matter
brian greene : elegant universe
heart of mathematics [text book]
relativity in illustrations [text book]

general science, history of science, auto/biographies, scientific fiction

edwin abbot : flatland
richard feynman : the meaning of it all
richard feynman : what do you care what other people think?
james gleick : chaos
james gleick : genius [bio richard feynman]
g h hardy : a mathematician's apology
paul hoffman : the man who loved only numbers [bio paul erdös]
robert kanigel : the man who knew infinity [bio ramanujan + g h hardy]
simon singh : fermat's enigma [bio andrew wiles]
steven weinberg : dreams of a final theory
john archibald wheeler : geons, black holes and quantum foam

philosophy of science

david bohm : wholeness and the implicate order
david bohm : thought as a system
paul davies : god and the new physics
nick herbert : elemental mind
j krishnamurti and david bohm : the limits of thought
j krishnamurti and david bohm : the ending of time
tor norretranders : the user illusion
roland omnès : quantum philosophy
roger penrose : large, small and the human mind
michael talbot : holographic universe

philosophy

j krishnamurti : on fear
j krishnamurti : on love and loneliness
j krishnamurti : this light in oneself
j krishnamurti : total freedom
> friedrich nietzsche : beyond good and evil
jean paul sartre : existentialism and human emotions

psychology

julian jaynes : the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
cg jung : man and his symbols
cg jung : memories, dreams, reflections
cg jung : synchronicty : an acausal connecting principle

history

callum macdonald : the killing of reinhard heydrich : the ss butcher of prague

art, culture, reference

incredibly strange films : re/search
industrial culture handbook : re/search
the lusty lady : erika langley
whitehouse/come organisation book