this is the page that links to all of the book reviews.
a note on the opinion numbers
| author | title | year | publisher/ organization |
catalog # | opinion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| charles rogers | memoir of george wishart, the scottish martyr | 1876 | the royal historical society | BR1725.W81.R72 | 9 |
| edmund burke | *reflections on the revolution in france | 1790 | j. dodsley | DC150.B83 | 1 |
| friedrich engels | manifesto of the communist party | 1848 | the communist league | HX39.5.A5213 | 1 |
| socialism: utopian and scientific | 1880 | the socialist review | HX276.E55 | 1 | |
| ludwig feuerbach and the end of clasical german philosophy | 1886 | die neue zeit | B2973.E572 | 11 | |
| on historical materialism | 1892 | george allen and sons | D16.9.E57 | 1 | |
| on the history of early christianity | 1894 | die neue zeit | HX6.5 | 3 | |
| 1959 | anchor | HX276.M2773 | 1 | ||
| geoffrey malaterra | the deeds of count roger of calabria & sicily & of duke robert guiscard his brother | 1100 | n/a | DG867.24.M3513 | 10 |
| isaac asimov | pebble in the sky | 1950 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Pe | - |
| the stars, like dust | 1951 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316St | - | |
| the currents of space | 1952 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Cu | - | |
| the caves of steel | 1954 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Cav | 1 | |
| the martian way, and other stories | 1955 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Mar | 2 | |
| the naked sun | 1957 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316 | 2 | |
| the early asimov | 1972 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Ean | 4 | |
| buy jupiter and other stories | 1975 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Bu | 4 | |
| the bicentennial man and other stories | 1976 | doubleday | PZ3.A8316Bi | 4 | |
| the complete robot | 1982 | doubleday | PS3551.S5C6 | 1 | |
| robots of dawn | 1983 | doubleday | PS3551.S5R6 | 6 | |
| robots and empire | 1985 | doubleday | PS3551.S5R64 | 1 | |
| the complete stories, volume 1 | 1990 | doubleday | PS3551.S5A6 | 4 | |
| karl marx | manifesto of the communist party | 1848 | the communist league | HX39.5.A5213 | 1 |
| critique of the gotha program | 1875 | letter | HX276.M283 | 5 | |
| 1959 | anchor | HX276.M2773 | 1 | ||
| robert payne | 1968 | wh allen & co | HX39.5.P3 | 2 | |
| richard price | observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with america |
1776 | t. cadell | E211.P930.1776b | 8 |
| a discourse on the love of our country | 1789 | t. cadell | DA452.P7 | 7 | |
| thomas hobbes | *leviathan | 1651 | andrew crooke | JC153.H65 | 7 |
| thomas paine | *rights of man | 1792 | j.s. jordan | JC177.B3 | 1 |
| thomas pynchon | mason & dixon | 1997 | henry holt & co | PS3566.Y53 M37 | 5 |
| william gibson | pattern recognition | 2003 | gp putnam's sons | PS3557.I2264 P38 | 5 |
*on longstanding hold
opinion decryption matrix:
0 = fit for gurus, hermits, renaissance people, head honchos and other self-ordained members of the decentralized intelligentsia
1 = required reading to convincingly fake intelligence.
2 = well crafted, worth the time.
3 = readable.
4 = of fragmented quality.
5 = nothing profound, nothing inane.
6 = regressive and/or disappointing.
7 = a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
8 = it's fun because it's stupid.
9 = solely research material
10 = caveat lector.
11 = a waste of time