Books I have purchased recently

[Warning: Nerdy self-indulgence with much linkage ahead]

I have purchased online or locally the following books in the recent past:

• Ernst Cassirer - Rousseau Kant and Goethe*
• Ernst Cassirer - The Question of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Peter Gay translation)*
• Dan Simmons - Olympos (1st edition, hardcover)*
• Jean Jacques Rousseau - Emile or On Education (translated by Allan Bloom)
• Immanuel Kant - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (TK Abbott Translation)
• Carl Von Clausewitz - On War (M Howard and P Paret trans)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther (M Clements trans)
• Max Caspar - Johannes Kepler
  • Probably the rarest book I'll own, once it arrives - *update* - what I get for not paying attention, the book arrived and is very beautiful, but its the German edition!

* indicates books I've read.

Other books I've read in the recent past (since May approximately):

• HG Wells - The Time Machine
• Jean Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
• Jean Jacques Rousseau - On Political Economy (in French and English)
• JJ Rousseau - On the Social Contract
  • Be wary of the Cole translations of Rousseau's work, apparently.
• Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland
  • Such a wonderful read
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass
• Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
  • Interesting read as an original source of late 17th century thought, and its influence on JJ Rousseau. In the Emile, it is the first book Jean-Jacques gives to Emile - and only when he's 15

Ongoing reading projects (i.e. books that have been on the go for quite some time, but get picked up on occasion):

• William Shakespeare - The Tempest
• Naomi Klein - No Logo
• Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
• George Berkeley - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

This does not include articles, blogs, news, reports, boingboing, the CIA World Factbook (I really wanted to get through them all, but have only made it to the end of 'A' (Azerbaijan) so far :( ) etc...

Thanks for indulging me...

Many of the books listed are available in the public domain and can be downloaded from places like Project Gutenberg or my fave, the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania

p.s. does anyone know a good edition of the Iliad and the Odyssey? I prefer to read a more 'literal' translation. I rather suck at reading verse, and the more direct translations tend to be more accessible for me. Some translations I have tried are rather old (late 19th or early 20th century translations available in the public domain) and I can't get into them.