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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Bill Bryson, Lewis Carroll, E. E. Cummings, Alexandre Dumas, Janet Fitch, John Fowles, Neil Gaiman, Herodotus, Aldous Huxley, Milan Kundera, Terry Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Françoise Sagan, Sir Walter Scott, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Michael Shermer, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jhonen Vasquez, Bill Watterson, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

About meI'm like a Hypochondriac except that instead of coming up with real diseases for non-existent symptoms I come up with far-fetched explanations for very real and mysterious maladies that plague me. And then I go to the doctor. You'd think I'd learn after a while, but then again I'm insane, which by definition means I'm virtually incapable of learning from my mistakes.

Hi.

I like to read.

I'm double majoring in English and Philosophy at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. I plan to grow up to be a starving artist, note, I'm running water through my roommate's coffee maker so that I can heat my ramen noodles. I win at starving artistry.

Also note, Texas is too hot. It should be abolished.

About my libraryMainly literature and poetry, although the non-fiction is slowly making it's own appearance.

Unlike my father, I enjoy paperbacks. I like the feel of them better. There's something very close to childhood and home in the feel of a paperback, and I'm big on nostalgia wherever I can grab it, because most of the things I enjoyed in childhood are lost or feel too foreign to me now.

My library is non-discriminatory in a highly discriminatory way. In other words, I'm not particular about the subject material that goes in, I will read just about whatever subject you put in front of me, but it must be well written. My library doesn't contain many science fiction or fantasy novels, because I find the majority of them are poorly written. What I do have in there are the classics of the genre or are exceptional in some way.

In the same vein, I don't have a lot of contemporary fiction in my library because I find the majority of that to be poorly written as well, or merely suitable for mindless reads while falling asleep by the pool. I might check those books out and read them, but I prefer not to spend the money to buy them. Instead, I enjoy slightly older modern fiction authors like John Fowles, Milan Kundera, and Francoise Sagan.

Maybe I'll think of more to say later, but I can smell my ramen cooking and it's making me oh so hungry.

EDIT: The ramen was really nasty. I should avoid using tap water in the future. :(

My rating system: (based purely on how much I enjoyed the work)

1/2 - Horrid, needs to be burned.

1 - Quite awful, nothing literary to recommend it.

1 1/2 - Almost has a little merit, but still nothing there to keep me interested

2 - Was a good idea, but author failed to carry out well.

2 1/2 - I'm tired of explaining the half-star points. You get the idea.

3 - Liked it, was a good read, has literary merit, probably won't read again.

4 - Definitely enjoyed, would consider reading again, had depth, and was well written.

5 - Same as four stars only I liked it that much more. Something with five stars I really really enjoyed.

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