Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid244 reviews Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Computer Science + An Incredible Intellectual Romp + Literate, Facinating, Readable + My favourite book - ever!             Mathew Arnold Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics)1 review Matthew Arnold Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1993 A bit of the best mankind has thought and said Mathew Arnold Hebraic and Hellenic at once, the representative of the central importance of a cultural tradition consisting in the best of what mankind has thought and said wrote a number of lines which echo in the Collective Memory of the Western Literary Tradition even today. The concluding ...             Les Misérables (Signet Classics)259 reviews Victor Hugo Signet Classics, 1987 The Genius Without a Brain + Stunning + Overrated but good + Even better than I'd thought             The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)3 reviews John Dryden Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Great Poetry, Mediocre Editing + Amazing reading + Restoring Dryden The blurb's claim that this edition includes all of Dryden's major original poems is not quite true. "The Hind and the Panther", the long and very important poem which marked Dryden's conversion to Catholicism, has unaccountably been left out. This omission would have made this edition worthless if ...             Mere Christianity445 reviews C. S. Lewis HarperOne, 2001 'Oxford Retard' yet to receive a coherent rebuttal... + Astounding + Recommend the writer to everyone + Beautiful and Mentally Satisfying             Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)12 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1998 Cornerstone of Modern Ethical Thinking + One of the best books ever written. + A Cornerstone in Thinking about Ethics + great introduction, expensive version             The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)1 review Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Good collection of Coleridge's works S.T. Coleridge is an interesting poetic figure. An opium addict who imaged an imaginary country called 'Xanadu', based on an Asian legend about one of the descendants of Genghis Khan, Coleridge's visions are very scattered and lacking in unity. His poems, while some soar to great heights, are ...             The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)41 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Books, 1977 A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche + Nietzsche makes it fun + good deal, + Portable and easy to read Nietzsche + An excellent selection from an excellent phisopher             Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)10 reviews John Milton W. W. Norton, 2004 The definitive Paradise Lost resource + Soooo good + This Specific Edition + an Invaluable text             Being and Time51 reviews Martin Heidegger HarperOne, 1962 Some Thoughts on Approaching Being and Time + The World Isn't a Dead Construct + At the heart of contemporary continental philosophy + To learn Heidegger, don't start with Heidegger             The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book)5 reviews Wilfred Owen New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1965 Harrowing beauty + Fantastic + A must read for all people + The Bleak Genius of Wilfred Owen + If ever we need to heed this poet it is now             Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / ...14 reviews Ralph Waldo Emerson Library of America, 1983 A complete work of art + Wonderful + The Most American Book of the Collection + Poverty with Dignity + The philosopher of America             Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)5 reviews Walt Whitman Dover Publications, 2007 What More Can Be Said? + He understood what we all feel about being alive. + A small part of 'Leaves of Grass' + Sigh................... + Loverly             The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition31 reviews William Shakespeare Heinle, 1996 great as a textbook, wonderful for personal use + Complete collection + The Riverside Shakespeare + Pleasantly Pleased + Great purchase!             The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake17 reviews William Blake, William Golding Anchor, 1982 SAYONARA......IT'S BEEN FUN! + Soothing + It has it all + Complete works of William Blake + outstanding             Critique of Religion and Philosophy22 reviews Walter A. Kaufmann Princeton University Press, 1979 To Paraphase Jacques Barzun, This Book Gives Us the Illusionion We Are Living in the World of the Intellect + Superb critique of modern theology and philosophy + A fascinating overview of religion and philosophy + "The Need for Negative Thinking" -with caveats             I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology6 reviews Abraham Joshua Heschel The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1983 A wise man indeed + poetry of Judiasm + companion during devastations + . . . a deeper dimensionality . . . + A Light Introduction to Heschel's Thinking             The Essential Kierkegaard5 reviews Soren Kierkegaard Princeton University Press, 2000 The Master of Irony + May the laughter by on your side + haven't read this particular edition of Kierkegard + Excellent Anthology             The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews William Wordsworth Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Wordsworth often mis-represented + Wordworth is fantastic + The pleasure of reading Wordsworth + A Giant with flaws + Great edition, well worth buying.             Truth And Method (Continuum Impacts)9 reviews Hans-Georg Gadamer, Joel Weinsheimer, ... Continuum, 2005 Klassisch! + on truth and method + A mighty work on interpretation + Very difficult -- although admittedly a classic. + Bold and Daring Christian-Judaic Thought