Kudos on visiting my profile.

As Keith Moon's art teacher reportedly wrote about him : "Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects."

That about captures the essence of it...

I am a South African native and Chemistry graduate student.

I enjoy reading (thoroughly trained through the height of the Harry Potter book series if you will) and generally anything studious and related to the arts, whether it be literature, film or music. (After all, science and art are inextricably intertwined anyway.)

Reading fanfiction is a veritable addiction of mine...who wouldn't care to appreciate the wonderous imaginary creations brought alive through the extraordinary talented minds pushing the boundaries of well known adored fandoms. There are diamonds among the rhinestones out there.

I have penned down the odd first fraction of a fiction story myself, though I find that I much prefer reading FanFiction stories, perhaps much more than I ever will writing them.

Notable Books I've read (in my humble opinion):

Contemporary-

Friday Night Lights

Hunger Games Trilogy

The Freedom Writer's Diary

World War Z- an oral history of the Zombie war (outstanding human behavior analysis!)

and a gem of a fiction Novel : April Rising by Corene Lemaître--A recommended read.

Classics-

Heart of darkness

The great Gatsby

A passage to India

Of mice and men

all works by C.S. Lewis

Harry Potter series

Life Altering Films:

Little Miss Sunshine (because life is a beauty contest)

Domino

The Breakfast Club

K-Pax

Brideshead revisited