A world of writers: enigmans, mysteries....

[blazeofglory]

Writers are queer creatures, indeed. For they live in this world with the rest of others but through imagination and thought they travel elsewhere, and they map uncharted domains of human minds, and revel in domains which are not ordinarily reachable.
Recently I read Gibran, Kafka, Dostoevsky. All these writers greatly appeal to me , and they in point of fact shaped my patterns of thinking. After going through Gibran's the prophet several times I have gone through stages of transmutations.Each reading of him gave me a different idea of the world, myself and everything we do. It gave me a different perspective. He is really a mystic.

Talking of Dostoevsky I find him deeply penetrating deeper into the realm of the human mind. And hardly any other could go so deeply, layers after layers of the mind.

Kafka is really amazing. His book the Metamorphosis is something I always read and find a different meaning in that book

[PeterL]

You might want to read Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson and some of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. Both would show you the human mind from different perspectives.

[stella]

i am reading Gibran's "the prophet " at the moment it's not the first book i read by him. he is really "out of this world" his writings can really re-shape your thoughts ......i LOVE Dostoevsky's way of thinking ,unfortunately i haven't read anything by kafka yet.......:-(

[blazeofglory]

i am reading Gibran's "the prophet " at the moment it's not the first book i read by him. he is really "out of this world" his writings can really re-shape your thoughts ......i LOVE Dostoevsky's way of thinking ,unfortunately i haven't read anything by kafka yet.......:-(

Gibran is really a great source of inspiration. I think he had got inspiration. He could delve into some aspects of life nowhere we could get them.

I have many books of him, but the Prophet is appealing and inspirational.

[Demian]

The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen were very good. I had read Lovecraft years ago, and discovered a glowing plug from Lovecraft on the back of the book (2 novellas in one book). Also Yeats, Wilde and a few others were fans. He was a high ranking member of The Golden Dawn, although he found the pomp and circumstance of the Order to be silly. I found The Hill of Dreams to be particularly enlightening. The only thing like it may be found in Lovecraft--but Machen had a greater talent for prose in my opinion.

[stella]

Gibran is really a great source of inspiration. I think he had got inspiration. He could delve into some aspects of life nowhere we could get them.

I have many books of him, but the Prophet is appealing and inspirational.

well i finished the prophet this morning & i 'll probably start with "sand&foam" tonight .....i see what you like about him you arent the only one i know who considers him as their best author ;my best friend really adores him she's the one who gave me all his books to read...
i really liked him but don't you think that his writings are a little bit too mysterious....