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Thanks for the info. There are vast gaps in my knowledge when it comes to Eastern philosophy and religion. I should probably remedy this through reading. I guess I'm on the right forum. As for the thing about befriending atheists, I sort of do that too, but only by default. I'm at a university...

Interesting. I wish I knew enough to have a conversation about it. Instead I think I'll just ask: What does being a theist/zen buddhist entail?

chiangmaifalcon, I agree that most religions are critical of other religions. Are you saying that that is OK, but it is not OK for atheism to be critical of all religions? I really must take exception at your charge of discrimination. Can you name me a group of people who have things easier...

Hey dude!

Thanks :) If you're not an atheist then what? Back to the topic: There were parts of Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, that I found pretty difficult to read.

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Wuthering Heights - Emile Bronte 2) One book you would want on a desert island: Complete Works of William Skakespeare 3) One book that made you laugh: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 4) One book that made you cry: Everything is Illuminated -...

Thankyou! It had to be said.

Alice being Alice in Wonderland? I haven't read those in about 10 years and plan to revisit them one day. Mill on the Floss is probably the least favourite of the George Eliot that I've read. Still marvelous, but it's no Middlemarch.

Polly Parrot, and I see the next one you're going to read is Wuthering Heights. I adore that book. I once tried to blog my way through it, chapter by chapter. I got up to about chapter 5 of 34 before giving up. I have always found that best part of reading Wuthering Heights is getting the Kate...

Hello Polly Parrot. I don't know who you're talking about, so almost certainly not. I really loved Great Expectations, probably my favourite Charles Dickens book.

Thankyou sparkchaser. I like your profile picture.

I'm not going to press this point, because I'm only new here and am scared of getting banned for derailing a thread by precipitating an argument over a question old as the internet itself: Is God real? But at least I mentioned Islam as being also fictitious. That's something, right? At least...

Totally agree. I am finishing my PhD at the moment which means incredibly long hours at university. As such I have cultivated a pretty chronic caffeine addiction. I usually get home around 1 am and then start reading for the day.

Caffeine works pretty well for me.

The Bible, both old and new testaments the Koran, the Hadith, the Bhagavad Gita, Dianetics, The Odyssey, the Pāli Canon, the Kojiki, the Book of Mormon and any other book that asserts as proven fact things that are unverifiable and supernatural is a work of fiction. This includes, but is not...

The novel that most convinced me of the pointlessness of existence was Steppenwolf. I strongly suspect that that book went over my head because I don't get why you would write or why, after having read it, you would direct someone else to read it.

Spoiler Warning I love Lost. I think it's the best show on television. I am keeping up to date with season 6 and am really hanging on for the end. Does anyone else really want to know what Desmond's deal is? Why is he special? Why was he locked in a room on the submarine? Why isn't he a...

Hello everyone, This is the first time I've been to this site. I am currently finishing a PhD in maths and as such need somewhere to avoid work. After a few weeks of trolling omegle to assuage boredom, unsuccessfully, I've decided to find somewhere to discuss literature. It's very nice...