Memnoch the Devil Discussion Part 2: The Splendor of Heaven, Lestat’s journey to Dante’s Paradiso  Originally, my vision of heaven was innocently divine and was very vacuous. When I was younger, the only earthly sense to describe heaven with was perfect gratification. Essentially, I thought heaven contained infinite amounts of all the pleasurable things known to…

Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Gurdon is Trapped in Plato’s Cave  (A Response to her recent “Darkness Too Visible,” article) Before reading my post, please read this article! Yesterday, Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote an extremely divisive article that detailed her problems with the growing darkness of recent young adult novels. Similar to television, censorship is being liberalized and becoming more mature and reflective…

Game of Thrones Review Glancing at this book, you cannot help but summon certain expectations about this book. This book has to be “Grade A” masculine ware. There’s no doubt that this book will have burly men with husky voices and an extreme lack of good moral conduct. Everything will feel as unruly as the…

Humpty Dumpty I’m disgusted by your noncommittal reaction Furthermore, I’m ravaged by perverse passion For you filthy ingrate I need to purge myself of this toxic love That derides my own ability to be happy Taking up the sword and honor of my kingdom I lay siege to all former feelings of you Every-time, I…

BOOK EXPO AMERICA MADVENTURE (Picture with the Mastermind himself: Chuck Palahniuk, writer of Fight Club)    Inexplicably, my whole morning began uncommonly serene. As a cool and collected pedestrian, I walked to the bus stop where the Bolt Bus was prepared to take my anxiety-ridden corpse to Bibliophile heaven. In my dreams, I envisaged a…

Adam and Eve Interpretation Part 2It all began with “Eve,” the one wily female that has become emblematic of the tempter and seducer of fragile men. Men are viewed from this wrongful Christian interpretation of the Adam and Eve myth as being victims of the enigmatic strength of women. Strangely, this depiction empowers women even if the…

Menmoch the Devil Analysis: Spiritual Therapy for the Disillusioned Part 1: Attack of the Conscience “Menmoch the Devil” is a breathtaking novel that was written by Anne Rice around 1995. The novel truthfully explores some profound spiritual concepts as Lestat envisages some encounter with the famed devil himself who curiously walks as an “ordinary man” At the beginning…

Analysis of the “Garden of Eden,” Story      The Garden of Eden story is principally a creation story fashioned in the same style that the Greek story of “Pandora’s Box,” was written.  Curiously, both these stories indict the female and her strong inquisitiveness as being the sole reason for the fall of humanity. Due to this…

Immortal Cynics Within time’s essence I’m omnipresent I prefigure everything Sometimes, I can foresee the blissful pockets of light In the lives of others albeit My own desolate life Where time wills me along with the Swift inclination of mankind’s desires Often, I can recall that lover Who left me lovelorn and disillusioned Due to…

Ghostly Passion Your thoughts, ideals, and faults Conspire against my melancholy  Your imagined soul; your incorporeal treasures Mystifies me and grants me a distinct existence Before I had only been a diaphanous form Unseen and unrecognized by others and even myself When you whisper my name to invoke my spirit, My wits and consciousness are…

Vampire Chronicles Philosophy: Duality: Mind/Body Problem  Traditionally, many philosophers have struggled futilely over the exact principles of the mind and body problem. One explanation, materialism, is the strong belief that the structure of our minds and conscience are merely a part of a large scheme of neurological processes that we have not completely identified. This…

FantastyFreak’s Countdown to BEA!! PLUS Information about the Game of Thrones Readathon Below.Writing these posts with sustained interest is definitely a challenge when my blog has spurts of high readership than it starts to tank. So, for me to invest so much interest and energy into this blog for the next two weeks, would either…