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By 'the West' are you simply refering to the USA? Or incorporating Europe as well?

The term Utopia actually came from Thomas More, and has only been related to the genre concerned with an 'ideal' society since, I don't think he was specically suggesting that the community he...

I loved that book.

If you find out the name of the book please let me know! Sounds very interesting.

Thanks!

Art (also Communist)

Yes, he commited seppuku after seizing control of a military headquaters in Tokyo, trying to revive the partiotism of Imperial Japan and the spirit of the Samurai and Bushido.

Wow, thanks very much, I will have a look out for it!

Has anyone read anything by Yukio Mishima, and if so then what did you think?

So far I have Confessions of a Mask, Forbidden Colours and The Sound of Waves, and think that they are absolutley...

Wasn't trying to nitpick, its just that I have had that book sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read for quite some time, it just seems quite a daunting task! :)

I think Trotsky did write The History of the Russian Revolution, and at over 1200 pages I would consider that a book 'in the general sense of the term' :)

Here is a selection of my favourites from my bookcase:

The Drowned and the Saved, The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, The Outsider - Albert Camus
Ancient Wisdom,...

I think it is definately worth finishing, I thought it was a fantastic book. I started reading the Odyssey as soon as i had finished the Illiad, I enjoyed it so much.

I agree with you, Diceman.

Jane Eyre was such a struggle to read that I didn't even finish it. I just couldn't engage with it at all.