The Hero With A Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
it is truly hard to think of another book I have had such a negative reaction to.
Mythology
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
I don’t think this book had the desired effect.
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The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)
Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.
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Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
In a future where governments are disappearing and corporations have taken over, a virus is being used to take over the world…
The Song of Roland
A classic? A French hero braved the foreign hordes to defend his homeland. I’m not so sure…
Failures in Polymathy 