February 22, 2022 War, what’s it good for? Tolstoy intimidated me. It was primarily the page count of War and Peace that kept me from diving in, of course, and I honestly…
February 5, 2022 Review of The Bacchae by Euripides I gather this play is a masterpiece, and I have no argument against that position. However, it didn’t do much for me, even after…
January 29, 2022 Worst Romantic Comedy Ever Even before you read Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, you’ve already heard the story and processed its inherent ickiness and general unlikeliness, which makes it…
January 12, 2022 Review of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New World is a groundbreaking dystopian novel that imagines a hideous future in which everyone is happy. It’s a lot worse than it sounds….
December 28, 2021 Review of Ubik by Philip K. Dick After slogging through The Wealth of Nations, I decided to give myself a break with some science fiction, which frankly I only included because…
December 17, 2021 Review of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The Time Machine is the seminal science fiction work from H. G. Wells that basically invented the concept of time travel in fiction. Nowadays it…
November 30, 2021 Review of Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Rounding out the tour of leading enlightenment thinkers, we arrive at the cornerstone of modern economic thought: The Wealth of Nations, the juggernaut from…
November 20, 2021 Review of Lysistrata by Aristophanes I have a brief tour of Greek drama scheduled, and I put this play on the top of the list because I thought it…
November 2, 2021 Review of Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass I didn’t mean to read this when I did, because Gulliver’s Travels was next on the list, but I picked it up and I…
October 30, 2021 Review of Dracula by Bram Stoker This book is fucking awesome. Given the saturation of Dracula and vampire-related material in pop culture, I fully expected to be underwhelmed by the…