I'm on an indefinite hiatus retired as of October of 2014 writing something or other again since mid march.

Since the site developers so kindly deleted it when they changed the viewer pages, I have replaced it with a slightly modified version.

"The only difference between a storyteller and a teacher is that the first one is usually more entertaining."

I am not very important, but if you are reading this then you may consider me to be so. If you're looking for a succinct and informational life story, then you unfortunately won't find one. If you want to get into the mess that is my brain, then I encourage you to talk to me. Side effects of talking to me (or reading my writing) may include, but are not limited to, dementia, catharsis, boredom, enlightenment, misery, euphoria, introspection, headaches, and mass confusion. I enjoy trying to make my stories as high-quality as possible, even to the point of multiple rewrites. I don't usually write "typical" shipping/comedy/romance stories, although there are some exceptions.

I'm always willing to give some advice and review things, as long as you don't foist tens of thousands of words on me suddenly, and I appreciate useful criticism as well.

This may also explain why my writing is sometimes thick
Books on this list are not guaranteed to be "good." The list is mainly for self-reference.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms, The Old Man and The Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, -or- The Whale (Unabridged)
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (Abridged)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Joseph Heller's Catch-22
Practically all of "Uncle John's" Bathroom Readers
John Ronald Reuel Tolkein's The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
R. A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt series (plural) and anything including Jarlaxle, Entreri, or Cadderly and the War of the Spider Queen series (Ft. various authors)
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey (Robert Fagle's translation)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (incl. The Custom House) and The Minister's Black Veil
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
George Orwell's Animal Farm, 1984
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground
Books in the Warcraft Universe- Rise of the Horde, The Shattering, War of the Ancients trilogy
Most/All Dr. Seuss short stories
Every Calvin & Hobbes strip Bill Watterson ever published
Every school textbook ever thrown, handed, bought, or placed before me
C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and The Great Divorce
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Howard Pyle's King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Jules Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days
Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers
J. M. Barnes' Peter Pan
Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson
Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Orson Scott Card's Ender octet (Ender's game through Shadow of the Giant or whatever it is), Empire, Ender in Exile, The Lost Gate, The Gate Thief
Star Wars Universe: The Truce at Bakura (Kathy Tyers), Nearly all of the Yuuzhan Vong/"New Jedi Order" books, Timothy Zan's "Heir To The Empire" trilogy, Michael Stackpole's trilogy
Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series, Airman
Star Trek Universe: Nearly all of the original series books (close to ninety of them)
Terry Brooks' Voyage of the Jerl Shannara trilogy, Heritage of Shannara books, High Druid of Shannara books (warning: later books in the series suck)
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Virgil's The Aeneid
Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle (Eragon)
Shakespearean works: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Ray Bradbury's Fahreinheit 451
William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, including a very thorough analysis by Gareth Stedman Jones
Nikolay Gogol's The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, The Overcoat, et al. short stories
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Fred Saberhagen's Books of the Gods and Books of Swords/Lost Swords series
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying
Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion
Michael Chrichton's The Andromeda Strain
John Paulos' Innumeracy
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire
Goethe's Faust
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time
David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef, By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress, How Firm A Foundation, Midst Toil And Tribulation, Hell's Foundations Quiver
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Carolina Maria De Jesus' Children of the Dark (Portuguese direct translation of title, which is vastly more accurate to the content: The Garbage Dump)
Rigoberta Menchu's I, Rigoberta Menchu
Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
John Milton's Paradise Lost
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Frank Herbert's Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapter House: Dune
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (wonderful movie adaption as well)
Descartes' Meditations and Discourse on Method
Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building
Fadi Azzam's Sarmada
Assaf Gavron's The Hilltop
John Cottingham's On The Meaning of Life
Plato's The Republic, Ion
Andy Weir's The Martian
& More that I have forgotten

I also am an avid reader of The Economist, XKCD, and Achewood.