Spiral Staircase:My Climb Out of Darkness     In the spirit of the transcendentalists, Karen Armstrong embraces a liberated method of seeing God after being cooped up in the prison of subservience that has restricted her ability to be both authentic and inquisitive. The title is borrowed from the meaning behind T.S. Elliot’s famous poem “Ash…

Announcement: Blog Schism    Due to acquiring needed advice about the layout of the blogs, I feel that its time for the blogs to undergo a schism of sorts.  This blog feels like it has greatly deviated from the main course of providing book reviews. Anyone looking at this blog can easily lose their footing…

Labyrinths and Ladders Part 1:The Labyrinth of Alice in Wonderland    Within mythology, the labyrinth is a common feature. Normally, the labyrinth relates to some sort of painstaking inner struggle. It is often perilous and overwhelming because labyrinths commonly are things which cause apprehension like our own minds. When we initially step within the first…

Analysis of Kamelot’s Karma Part 1/4     In our modern dialogue, the mythic force of karma relates to the array of consequences that are naturally produced from our individual decisions. We love to denote certain decisions as issuing good or bad karma. Many times, we use karma as a way of describing fate’s natural counteraction to…

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…