Not much to say, really. I suppose if I were a flavor, I'd be vanilla. But, hey, at least my imagination's not so hampered (that remains to be seen). I'm a tremendous sci-fi/fantasy geek, though I don't go in for the conventions and dressing up as a Klingon. I am also, to my secret shame, something of a romantic, which I'm sure my stories will bear out.

I have gotten hold of a list of 50 Books To Read Before You Die and am endeavoring to work my way through said list. I was pleased to discover that I've already read quite a few of the titles. Here's the list and my progress, for those of you who give a darn:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkein (read it)

1984 by George Orwell (read it, depressing as hell)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Does Pride and Prejudice and Zombies count? I'm gonna say yes.)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (read it)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read it, love it)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (read it, better than I expected)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (read it, certainly wasn't dull)

A Passage to India by EM Forster

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (read it, awesome book)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher In the Rye by JD Salinger (read it, really don't see what all the fuss is about)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (read it)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Bible (never read it, probably never will)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Money by Martin Amis

Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (read most of them)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Wind In the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (read them, first book's the best)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (read it)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Curious Incedent of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

The Outsider by Albert Camus

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (read it, way better than the movie, and that's saying a lot)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells (read it, love it!)

Man Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (read it, way better than Tom Sawyer)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith." --Henry A. Overstreet

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." --Homer Simpson

"What's so great about being lazy, you ask? What if war were declared and nobody showed?" --Garfield