<t>That is a good question, I feel that it was due to the fact the little boy lived with his mother alone and she is his source exposure to humanity, to life and knowledge, so he emulates her. He was the object of her sole attention and in that made very mature choices, such as limiting his televisi...

Noone can truly trust what is in the modern day versions of the Bible. Each have been tainted with political motivations of leaders and mistakes in translations, never mind the chinese whisper element that accompanies oral tradition. For instance, the world thinks that Jesus was the son of a carpent...

Unrelated in a way, but I have a brand new respect for cells after reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It is not a book I am able to find a discussion on but I always struggled and rebelled against Science at school due to my lack of understanding and therefore my embracing of Irish myths ...

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart - it is interesting so far

I loved this book. The open mind of the Piscine, is a true inspiration to how societies around the world interact and are unable to accept diverse beliefs and opinions as opposed to appreciating them - particularly as I live in a country in which faith is the origin of conflict. A lot of people coul...

I had just seen the movie too and in reading in a response above that there is a unique narrator, I am going to give the book a chance. I didn't like the movie that much, I felt there were better post-apocalyptic movies out there. But then so much gets lost from the narrative of a book to that of a ...

I used to only read 19th Century Literature and was quite elite in what I read, that was stupid of me as in the past few months I have gone into a drive of buying modern literature that I missed out in my selective reading. I don't have the criteria to what books I read now, which states that the au...

Oh there are so many i can chose, i read bits and pieces of everything, i love thrillers and mystery though am disappointed when i guess the correct ending anywhere prior to the very last page. I used to not like fantasy as a genre but find I am loving it this year for some reason. I finally went wi...

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, so far so good, am 50 pages in so very early on in the book so far.

It is indeed near Belfast, and a lovely town. The name of the girl that married Bram Stoker and the ex of Oscar Wilde was Florence Balcome (for ease of reference) I didn't know that about Margaret Mitchell and often stupidly think back to that time as motor cars in my mind not being as dangerous. Th...