THE BEST OF MAY

BERKELEY - THREE DIALOGUES

"George Berkeley is an exemplary example of why philosophers are known as crazy ... Claiming that there is no matter and everything we see is perception is unlikely to get you any brownie points."


THE BIBLE

"There's some comedy pieces like this guy Noah who forgot all the dinosaurs and left them to die instead of taking them on his super arc. Must have been a cold-hearted guy and let them drown like the chick in Titanic did to Leo. So did Noah paint the dinosaurs like one of his 'French girls'? ... I think the writers owe George Lucas some money for stealing his idea."


O'CONNOR - A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

"I wouldn't recommend this book. I picked it up thinking it would give me a great story about a certain man in this world . . . and it squelched my hopes. I have a husband I love dearly and hardly get to see. When I do, I want to appreciate him more vs. find myself dwelling on the negative. This book was not positive and was a waste of my time I felt."


GOGOL - DEAD SOULS

"My 'thing' in general is that I like to assign colors to books. Like, a vampire book would be red, nothing special there. A science fiction book would be sparkly purple, a novel that contains a lot of sorrow is brownish-orange... Most of the Russian literature I've read are gray. So was Dead Souls. And I'm not too big a fan of that."


SHELLEY - EPIPSYCHIDION

"Percy Bitch Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822), one of the faggot English Romantic poets and, critically regarded as among the gayest lyric poets in the English language"


DANTE - THE DIVINE COMEDY

"Would Not Make It In Today's World
One of those classics that would not make it in today's world. There are some humorous parts, but the America is so over the edge with its shock culture, such as shock rock, and shock news that it makes this book seem quite dated."


KANT - PROLEGOMENA

"Metaphysics? Come on, Kant! Do you think anyone worries about this dross anymore?"


NABOKOV - LOLITA

"how is this bad?
I thought this story was awful! a waste of money and time. I had read that it was so wrong that it was banned, but why?, there was nothing to make it wrong! perhaps the bad bits were taken out I don't know but it bored me half to tears. All it was was some old guy whining about his bratty child."


SHAKESPEARE - MACBETH

"I found the way Macbeth finished a bit ironic because the whole purpose of Macbeths irrational killings were so that he could become King, yet the play ends with Macduff as king."


CATHER - MY ÁNTONIA

"Gosh darn it - I didn't like this book. I got lost in all the adjectives. Maybe I gave up too soon, I only ready like 30 pages, but I skimmed through the book and it seemed to continue to have the same amount of adjectives."