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I'm not sure really; whenever I try to think my mind just becomes blank. There's too many I like. Probably the one I really enjoyed though was Candide by Voltaire, and probably The Time Machine by...

Science is beautiful, and perhaps the most sublime thing one can be educated about; to actually learn about your place in the universe and marvel at the wonders of existence is just too awe...

For the people I would try and emulate...probably Voltaire, Kafka, and possibly Poe, although my vocabulary isn't so gigantically broad like his; I think Poe had a lot of freedom with his writing.

There aren't really any bookstores near where I live, so when I do finally get to go to the nearest city, I usually spend hours in there, and go straight to the Penguin Classics section. They're...

I prefer autobiographies instead of biographies; I just feel you can get more into it in the authors own words, no matter how much lies are in there :D
I've stumbled across Rousseau's Confessions,...

I stumbled across a Ray Bradbury lecture just now, and after watching it, he offered his 'Bradbury Program' to follow, which involved reading one short story, one poem, and one essay a night. Now...

You could also say that there is no evidence to suggest that any of the imagined gods exist, or have ever existed. A man of one particular faith believes in his own god, whilst dismissing the gods of...

I've took my time to get to it, but I finally started reading Hamlet yesterday, and I'm up to act 2 now. Hamlet is in the same room as the King, and of course those who have read it know what Hamlet...

Is it possible to read Shakespeare instead of watching the plays themselves, or are the plays meant to be solely performed? I've got a Hamlet copy - it's the penguin modern classics one - and I've...

I've just finished Dante's Inferno now. Well, it's now my favourite book.

Yeah, I've heard about the English poets leading very different lives. I think it was Byron who hated Wordsworth's poetry, so really, I guess they belonged to Romanticism, but in very different ways....

Does anyone out there understand Romanticism and what the main ideals of Romanticism was? I know there are a lot of monumental literature works involved in the Romantic movement; Keats, Blake, Byron,...

Josefine the singer, or the mouse people, can be quite complex at times but I managed to get through that and understand every part. But I made sure before, that I would concentrate hard and follow...

Oh, yes, I know. They can often cover a whole page and sometimes I daydream whilst reading them because they are very lengthy. What I mean though is that he doesn't tend to use complex words but...

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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity" - Horace Mann
-Makes us try and contribute to humanity before we meet our end.

"We're all in the gutter, but some of...

I've just been writing an article for my history class about the Russian Revolution and Alexander II's reforms he introduced, and I was asked, for homework, to write this article explaining and...

A closet drama is a play which is meant, basically, to be read instead of performed on stage. I'm getting quite into them, because there's nothing like being completely absorbed by a play that you...

One mental illness that is palpable, and which is generally agreed, that Kafka had, was social anxiety disorder. This is why Kafka remained reticent in social settings and was timid and would have to...

I suppose you're talking about Christopher Hitchens' criticism of Mother Teresa. I'm not sure what the Martin Luther King thing was all about though :/ Hitchens is a humanist and I think he would...

It depends if one can handle solitary moments and lonesome moments. Some are lonely, for reasons unknown but only to themselves. Many can handle loneliness because other aspects of their lives are...

After reading literature that reflects realistic life stories, or realistic epochs, I'm getting quite interested in surreal literature, expressing things you don't necessarily expect or showing...