Well, I finished the book Concerns of Deep History the day before yesterday, and I really need to turn to something new, something beyond the stereotype now. Actually, I accidentally turned to poems. I have always been a huge fan of the thing called destiny. I just believe that everything is settled long before your birth. And yesterday, when I was ( Read more... )

I turn to the law part of Concerns of Deep History these two days, and found it quite confusing. According to the writer, courts of law in the U.S are more like a game between the defendants and the prosecutors who, in the light of law regulations and rules, play crafty tricks and ignore morality or conscience, especially the lawyers who care only ( Read more... )

I kind of get bored by this book Concerns of Deep History. Although its contents are based on the observations of the author himself, I find them rather single-sided. The author doesn’t explicitly state his admiration towards the American system and ways of life, but I cannot find any of the America’s failures in his book. I don’t blame the author ( Read more... )

These two days I am reading "Concerns of Deep History" written by a Chinese immigrant living in America. The book is about what the Americans had paid for the sake of freedom. It made me reconsider what freedom is. In the past, I learned from American philosopher John Rawls’ ideas that one can’t have free will since we are all born into this world ( Read more... )

Recently, I have been obsessed with books. Printed books only. I truly hate e-books which dizzy my head and smell terrible. They just destroy the pleasant feelings paper books deliver. I only wish I could own a small bookstore of my own, selling fascinating, old, unique, or even controversial books I myself have appreciated and loved. But to ( Read more... )