I really like those reviews micheal, but I wanted to comment on a point you made - about White Bear and White Christmas, there is a lot of very deep and interes

I really like those reviews micheal, but I wanted to comment on a point you made - about White Bear and White Christmas, there is a lot of very deep and interesting philosophy about what it means to be alive, and what it means to be someone. Parfit (there is an excellent profile of him in the New Yorker here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/how-to-be-good http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/how-to-be-good) was a philosopher who tackled this issue and had some incredibly interesting thought experiments. You might enjoy it.