The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy by A.C. Grayling

The end of the marking period is fast approaching and I still have not completed my genre requirement of poetry/play. See its difficult for me to find a poetry book that strikes my fancy and perhaps even harder to find a play. I think that plays and poetry are things to be preformed and watched as entertainment, and not so much read. I have though found a few philosophy books that have been really interesting, both of which I picked up on my trip to London last month. The thing that I like about them is that they have similar layouts in that they all first decide on a topic to discuss and then offer short little thoughts or essays analyzing the human condition as pertaining to the topic of that particular section. I have never before seen this kind of writing. I have to say, reading books on philosophy has exposed me to many new ideas that I had before been completely unaware of. Hopefully I'll find a play to read over spring break so that I can complete my genre requirement.

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol

This is by far the most abstract of all auto-biographies that I have read. Maybe it's that I haven't been into the writings of artists and mostly musicians, but this book is very different. It combines the thoughts of a visionary artist while at the same time tells the story of Andy Warhol through his life. The writings are not particularly paragraphs and traditional chapters but rather little snippets of thoughts sometimes one sentence sometimes paragraphs and even in the form of poetry in come cases. He relays his idea, provides analysis and then moves right along to the next one. This is great in that most philosophy books can tend to be a tad boring as one can go on and on for pages on one topic, while Andy Warhol keeps his ideas short and sweet.