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I registered for Blog a Penguin Classic and they're going to send me Reveries of the Solitary Walker, by Rousseau. It promises to be either incredibly dry or deeply moving. That's the gamble with reading the classic philosophers: you never know if you're going to get an insightful treatise on nationalism, or an in-depth analysis of whatever they find sticking to the lining of their waistcoats that morning.

Anyway, it's a free book and the only thing I'm required to do in return is write a review of the book for the website. I was surprised that I got a copy -- there are only 1,400 spots (one for each of the Penguin Classics) and I think it's open to readers from around the world, which I assumed meant that spots would be snapped up fairly quickly by the erudite folks overseas. Maybe people don't read as much as they used to.

"Ten meditations ... expressing in [its] full force the agony of isolation and alienation."

I have a feeling that I'm going to enjoy this book.