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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.
Tao Te Ching (book review) Lao Tzu
Victor H. Mair (Translator) 220322: have decided to read various translations i have of this text, not that the renderings are...
Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy (book review) Anne Dufourmantelle
120619: this is fascinating. this will reward future rereads, much as sex rewards repeats, for the author has ranged widely, focused,...
Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty (book review) Dorothea E Olkowski
The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception 220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise...
Extinction: A Novel (book review) Thomas Bernhard
220114: having read a few austrian novels, several jelinek, in particular [book:The Piano Teacher|764953], i have general idea that it is...
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...
Time Regained (book review) by Marcel Proust
201119: well this is conundrum for though it is not like there are no other books to read, the question is- should i try to read it in...
Death's End (book review) Liu Cixin
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
The Three-Body Problem (book review) Liu Cixin
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...
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,...
The Walking Man (book review) Jirō Taniguchi
270719 much later later addition: i look at this again, slip back into that meditating calmness, now read more books fiction and non,...
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 ...
Children of the Sea, Volume 1 (book review) Daisuke Igarashi
(Children of the Sea, #1) 230915: possibly the most beautiful art i have seen in graphic work. in extensive depiction of the seas, the...
The Prospector (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio
Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...
Desert (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio
C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...
Carmen (book review) Prosper Mérimée
George Burnham Ives (Translation) 131218: everything you want in hopeless romantic dysfunctional love. and an opera...
The Facts of Winter (book review) Paul Poissel
Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...
Kant (book review) Paul Guyer
The Routledge Philosophers 071018 this is a much later addition (6 years): i have not revisited this book, just read the review again. 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...
Autoportrait (book review) Édouard Levé
Lorin Stein (Translator) 200728: brutal, benign, bewildering, beautiful (now i have to read 'wittgenstein's mistress'...). as mentioned...
