Recent content by Kareem

I first read it when I was just a little kid and thought that this is the kind of literature that should be read through and through. No doubt about it, Stoker was a good writer. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good story.

I am in a small boat, drifting aimlessly beneath the scorching sun; waiting either for some passing ship, or to be cast on the shores of some habitable land. I can only guess vaguely by the sun and stars that I am somewhat south of the equator. :D

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor as the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. ~Joseph Glanvill. A Descent into the...

I gave away ten books this christmas. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. A boy Discovers the Horrors of War, by Stephen Crane. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into them. Since my last post I've read: The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis. Les Chants de Maldoror, by Lautréamont. The demon of Siciliy, by Edward Montague. The castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole. Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille. Some of...

God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous...

Well being slightly older than her 'target market' and an avid reader... I think the Twilight series is MEH with an extreme overload following of what seems to be teenie boppers. It was all just so cheesy for me. I found myself laughing at odd intervals while reading this story. I can't...

Hello, Everything goes for the most part, humans or supernatural beings. However, I’m a little bit wary of fantasy and sci-fi.. y'know.. elves, dwarves, aliens...that sort of thing. My favorite books seem to be set in a time and place that isn't too modern. Y'know like.. the classical...

Listen closely.. Kareem hails you, and offers you friendship.

I'm looking for a series of books, the sort of books that, if only for the relentless clarity of the writing, the lucid, yet overwritten descriptions of the grasses, the mud, the thorns, and the very arc of the road that cuts through all that, presents a clear and episodic progress from one...