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Incentives to Change, about autism

Rumspringa, about the "running around time" teenage Amish kids experience before growing up

The Birth of the Gods and the Orgins of Agriculture

"Man, the 'king of creation' who manipulates the rest of creation for his benefit, the pinnacle of biological evolution, 'master and possessor' of the other biological orders, who has multiplied the species that he has domesticated and decimated those which have remained wild, drawing energy from inert matter, overturning whole landscapes and transforming the planet - this is our portrait of ourselves at the end of the twentieth century, when abuse of our priveleges has begun to stir disquiet."

I read that for English class about a week and a half ago. Followed by Kafka's The Metamorphosis - the two works we than had to interpret in comparison. All I get out of it is that it's about the meaning of life and to Camus the intensity or lack of sunlight gives a lot of insight into who Mersault is.

I believe the accepted critical interpretation is that Mersault discovers that he lives in an irrational universe which is indifferent to him as a person. Explaining a lot of the court scenes and bits and pieces of the ending.

We're starting James Joyce next week. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm going to need to breathe before starting that one...

Velocity by Dean Koontz.

A walk in the woods (Bill Bryson).

I wanna do that trail !

The Briar King by Greg Keyes.

i'm reading dolores claiborn (sp) again.

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

JKR Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

YAY! I finally got it in English, I'm so happy.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K. Rowling

Waiting, by Ha Jin.

I read "A Brief History of Nearly Everything"(Same author)
It was an awesome read. If anyone likes any kind of factoids about, well everything, I highly recommend it.

I'm currently reading "The Great Gatsby" By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hometown guy to boot.

After that I think I'm going to finally tackle "Atlas Shrugged". If anyone here has read it, could i have some feedback?
No spoilers please.

John Lennon: A Spaniard in the Works
Simon and Schuster
New Yark
copyright 1965 John Lennon

"Jesus El Pifco was a foreigner and he knew it. He had imigrateful from his little white slum in Barcelover a good thirsty year ago having first secured the handy job as coachman in Scotland. The job was with the Laird of McAnus, a canny old tin whom have a castle in the Highlads. The first thing Jesus El Pifco noticed in the early days was that the Laird didn't seem to have a coach of any description or even a coach house you know, much to his dismable. But - and I use the word lightly - the Laird did seem to have some horses, each one sporting a fine pair of legs. Jesus fell in love with them at first sight, as they did with him, which was lucky, because his quarters were in the actually stables along side his noble four lepered friends." [sic]

Aye, memories! That book taught me empathy when I was 14. I owe Elie Wiesel so much for a substantial amount of the progress I have made in my emotional development.

As for me? The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

I'm reading that as well.

the Genesis of Artistic Creativity
Asperger's Syndrome and the Arts
Michael Fitzgerald

Contents

Part I. Asperger's Syndrome and Writers
1. Jonathan Swift
2. Hans Christian Anderson
3. Herman Melville
4. Lewis Carroll
5. William Butler Yeats
6. Arthur Conan Doyle
7. George Orwell
8. Bruce Chatwin

Part II. Asperger's Syndrome and Plilosophers
9. Spinoza
10. Immanuel Kant
11. Simone Weil
12. A.J. Ayer

Part III. Asperger's Syndrome and Musicians
13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
14. Ludwig van Beethoven
15. Erik Satie
16. Béla Bartók
17. Glen Gould

Part IV. Asperger's Syndrome and Painters
18. Vincent van Gogh
19. Jack B. Yeats
20. L.S. Lowry
21. Andy Warhol