Cannetti, Burgess, Buchner

Since my last post I've read an issue of Eclectic Reading and an issue of The New Scientist. I've also read Complete Works of Thomas Paine. I liked them, in particular I liked reading the pamphlets he wrote during the Revolutionary War -- they had a great sense of excitement. I also read Buchner's Lenz, which did make much of an impression on me, and Anthony Burgess' Devil of a State. Who can read anything by Burgess and not think of Clockwork Orange? I didn't much care for Devil of a State, but I thought it made an interesting political statement about politics and colonialism and British imperialism. Finally, I started Elias Cannetti's book on crowd psychology, which I'm not sure I'll finish.