"Well Taylor, I'm not sure who you are but contradictions can definitely be interesting. From you're reading selection and ratings you seem to be a gay (stonewall), christian (high ratings on C.S. Lewis), elitist, capitalist (Rand), subversive liberal (Klien) with good taste (Perfume)."

All of the above.

I am gay, I was raised in a conservative born-again chrisitan home (although I am now atheist), I am a bit of an elitist and very pro-capitalist, and yet I feel the need to not necessarily fight against the machine, but work within it for the betterment.

You missed one contradiction though. I am an advertising design major (seen in my readership of ad only books). And yet I'm a big fan of the book NO LOGO which is anti-branding/marketing as featured in one of my fav documentaries "The Corporation."


Yet you missed one point. Just because I read it doesn't mean I follow it. I think the most despicable human being is the one that is so egotistical that they are totally unwilling to even consider for a moment that their direct opponent or oppoisite may be the one that is right. To that end, I always try to at least (as fairly as I can) investigate the reasoning (if there is any) behind the other person's side.

The only book/short story that I have read so far that I feel has absolutely no merit. Is Kafka's Metamorphosis. Existential books have never held merit for me.

Hey I wasn't getting updates for a couple weeks but that's fixed now. I've been getting involved with other projects and working a lot so my reading has suffered. I've got about 100 pages left of -A Darkness at Sethanon- and I've been reading it for about 6 weeks now.

It just proves that I'm better.

Hey! You can't already have books on, you're making me look bad. Fine, I'll do 3 so there.