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MICHAEL KAMAKANA
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We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. MichaelKamakana serves as a vessel to project my passions, and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
2021 on Goodreads by Various
211227: not quite the end of the year but not likely to read much more. big decision this year was that when i reached an arbitrary...
Becoming God (book review) Patrick Lee Miller
Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy 160617: another fascinating brief philosophy text, this summarizing the early greek philosophers...
The Jaina Path of Purification (book review) Padmanabh S. Jaini
211216: very good. perhaps only three. but there are some good chapters, particularly 3- nature of reality, 4-mechanism of bondage, in...
Merleau-Ponty's Ontology (book review) M.C. Dillon
190917 this is a much much later addition (four years): decided to read again 260917 well i have read it again. faster, longer sections,...
Analytic Philosophy (book review) Aaron Preston
The History of an Illusion 100818: i do not know if this is a five- let alone on a sort of philosophy i do not much read (analytic) but...
Time and Free Will (book review) Henri Bergson
An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness F.L. Pogson (Translator) 240716 this is a much later later addition: i have now read ...
Divine Madman (book review) Dominique Rolin
220319: fun./review to come... ok review now days later. we lived in bruxelles when my father was on sabbatical so my parents really...
J.M.G. Le Clezio: Le nomade immobile (book review') Gérard de Cortanze
210419 from 2000s?: this is read many years ago, in french, in quotes i could follow from having read le clezio in translation, but it...
Nietzsche and Philosophy (book review) Gilles Deleuze
yy/mm/dd 200620: i have read some by nz(3) some on nz(11) some by dz(6) some on dz(20), and this is definitely one of the best. this is...
Jaina Theory of Multiple Facets of Reality and Truth (BLII) (book review) Nagin J. Shah
200628: reading second time...note again, the result of opposing thought-systems etc is not median, not synthesis, not relatively, but...
What the Buddha Taught (book review) Walpola Rahula
200805: years (decades...) since first reading. this might be first buddhism book i read, very concise, great translations, clear and...
Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life (book review) Leonard Mlodinow
201227: my father did his masters in physics at cal tech when feynman was there in early 60s. he did not study but sat in on one of his...
Birthday (book review) César Aira
Chris Andrews (Translator) 210404: now here is something opposite the knausgaard i have just read. concise, comic, complete,...
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (book review) Jane Jacobs
??? 2000s?: you will never see a sidewalk the same after reading this...
Groundhog Day (book review) Ryan Gilbey
(BFI Film Classics) ??? 2000s: this is one of my favorite films. this is why. i just read this again today, laughing in recollection....
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ? (book review) Harold Bloom (Editor), Samuel Beckett
(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) ??? '90s?: i have to admit i prefer this play over anything else the man wrote: this critical...
The Mexican Dream (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio,
, or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation) ??? 2010s?: interrupted dreams are the ones...
The Intelligence of Dogs (book review) Stanley Coren
A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companion ??? 000s?: read this for my own writing, my interest, because...
Film Art Phenomena (book review) Nicky Hamlyn
??? 000s?: this is only for those who take film seriously as artistic potential. potential far beyond the common narrative films from...
