31.5.09

'Book'list

Here is the list of everything we wanted to read, followed by the ones we chose.

The Cantos - Ezra Pound
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Divine Comedy - Dante
something by Isaac Newton
something by John Keynes
the Biography of James Joyce
Girl Blog From Iraq
The Day The Leader Was Killed - Naguib Mahfouz
The Development of Underdevelopment - André Gunder Frank
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Condition of Post-Modernity - David Harvey
Analysis of medium-length computer program
Without Hot Air - David MacKay
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
The Underground Man - Fyodor Dovstoyevsky
something by Proust
something by Irving Layton
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Aeneid - Virgil

WHAT WE WILL READ:
Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton (excerpts)
Cantos - Ezra Pound
The Underground Man - Fyodor Dovstoyevsky
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
A selection of Irving Layton's work
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
The Condition of Post-Modernity - David Harvey La Nausée - Jean-Paul Sartre


We have begun La Nausée. (most of us are reading in translation, but the truly ambitious among us are reading the original French!) Our next meeting will finish up with this existentialist dog fart and we'll decide from there what to read next. If anyone needs details about next week's meeting on June 6th, please get in touch!

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