books_i'd_like_to_re_read pete dune plato's symposium boethius' consolation of philosophy tao te ching the thrawn triology in the presence of mine enemies catcher in the rye the great war series (and american empire series) the simarillion plato's meno the divine comedy, especially paridiso the leviathan flash forward ender's game factoring humanity calculating god between the rivers ender's shadow of fortune and men's eyes the bacchae 1&2 Samuel Ezkiel eye of the world cry, the beloved country in enemy hands brave new world illusion ...i'm sure their are many many more 050729 ... jane oh don't read meno. read symposium 050729 ... jane ah how quickly i skimmed over. my mistake. 050729 ... pete i liked them both 050730 ... jane different as they may be. i preferred the apology & the crito to meno, perhaps because of their more literary style. 050730 ... pete the apology was interesting.. as was the crito, which was almost like a deathbed confession.. i wrote an essay on the meno where i came to more or less the same conclusion as aristotle on the question of how virtue is "learned" .. perhaps that is why i have such an attachment to it, or maybe its just because lines suchas "by zeus socrates, i do not know" stick out in my mind for one reason or another.. plato is a good read, either way, and the character of socrates is an enjoyable sarcastic bastard in all of them 050731 ... kelc perks_of_being_a_wallflower .. 050731 ... jane for me, the dialogues concerning the definitions of virtue, justice & courage seem more cyclical & unanswerable. the more literary writing is more intriguing to me, but yes, "by zeus, socrates.." was always a good one. 050801 ... pete i have to say, though, i by far prefer boethius to plato... that man was a genius, writing about 800 years later in exile waiting to be bludgeoned to death... literary and clinical *adds "How Few Remain" to his list* almost bought that one tonight 050801 what's it to you? who go blather from