Semicolon Theatre Presents: A Reading List Including Reviews Made of Pretension & Boredom

Here is a short list of what I'm reading right now; I've yet to finish any of them and I am at different stages in each (I do finish books, yes). Nevertheless, I feel I am qualified enough to offer a short review for each.



The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature, Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault with a foreward by John Raichman

Review: I think a quote from Chomsky can adequately sum up the knowledge I've gained from this book so far: "CHOMSKY: Again, I'm oversimplifying."



Ubik, Phillip K. Dick

Review: To say that the feminine presence in this book is diminutive of what women as people could offer the novel (not to mention the genre itself) really conveys the inanimate stupidity that exists at my core.



The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Review: I officially have a decapitation fetish now; I think I'll lay off this one till spring has sprung a bit more.



Winter in the Blood: The Classic Tale of Indian Life Today, James Welch

Review: Watch closely as an unnamed individual of mixed-blood American Indian heritage tries to help his severely fragmented community find an identity they can collectively thrive in since so much of their culture has been wiped from the annals of history and thousands of their ancestors have been slaughtered (seriously, though, I'm only like ten pages in).