What Book Are You Reading?

I read that in a philosophy class in college.

 

Really famous for exposing life in the Russian prison system. You should read it.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the author.

 

It was an interesting reading list.

That class was at a small college in Iowa, Graceland College. My sister wanted to go there, I wanted to go to CU, so my parents said they would pay my first year if I took her there and went with her for a year. It is a liberal arts college, but it was owned by the church my parents went to so most of the students were members of that church. It gave me the opportunity to go to school at Kansai University of Foreign Studies or Kansai Gaidai in Japan.

Some of the other books we read were Barret's, Irrational Man, which is a really good book, it begins with the history of Western Philosophy that lead into existentialism, then an exploration of existentialism.We read Descarte's book on his First Principle (I can't think of the title right now), one of Dicken's books, Oedipus, Plato's Republic, and a book about the humanist philosophy of Marx when he was younger---Marx's Concept of Man. Also Kafka's, The Trial.

It was a great class.

 

Meditation on first philosophy possibly?
I may have that title wrong by the way. It's been more then a while

 

Meant to say that I have started The World That Never Was. Not very far in but extremely interesting so far. I'm in Russia and Switzerland 1874 - 1876.

 

A wee bit normality reigns here

 

That's the one!

 

I'm reading an historical novel called The Paris Library