Books

Bernard Chapin at Crux reviews Thomas Ellis' The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience with Feminism, Political Correctness, and Basically Everything [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976261308/thedailyeudem-20]. Pretty good, hard-hitting stuff. Link [http://www.cruxmag.com/SingleMaleAlone.htm]. Excerpt: > [H]is title is oddly

Perhaps it's shameful on our part, but we're going to (try to) start a blog meme, one of those chain-blog messages that bloggers pass among each other. It's simple: 1. Name your three biggest non-reference books (excluding the Bible and text books). 2. Name

American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080283938X/thedailyeudem-20]). We're a fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to see that

James Randi has put his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/].

The New York Times printed an interesting piece about the economics of used books. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/technology/28scene.html?ex=1280203200&en=33765024cbf62d4c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&NYT_REG_SUCKS] . According to the article, used books probably

> C.S. Lewis's vision assumed “that pagan wisdom and mythology may furnish us with some very significant clues to things. Spenser, in his Christian epic on Charity, The Faerie Queen, takes us to such pagan haunts as the Cave of Morpheus and the Garden of Adonis. Milton