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About Me

Czar PoetryA Sandbox in Beslan -- D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman? -- Riddles in the Dark -- Smooth Sailing in the Land of Nod -- Potemkin Village -- A Moonlight's Lament -- Trivial Jesuit -- Tabula Rasa -- Strangers -- Cadence -- Standing on Paths Where Grass Once GrewRead Morehttp://czar.mindsay.com------------------------------------- ----I'm an English major at UNCC with a minor in Secondary Education. I want to get into publishing as well. I currently work at Barnes & Noble. I love playing N64 and eating junk food 24/7.-----------------------------------------"May the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars." - Blow

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Ladanian Tomlinson, Tony Blair, and Cormac McCarthy

Music:

Oasis Jason Mraz Damien Rice Steve Miller Band Norah Jones

Movies:

Blow Catch Me If You Can Risky Business

Television:

LOST Heroes So You Think You Can Dance?

Books:

The Things They Carried The Road Everything is Illuminated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Lord of the Rings Candide The Brothers Karamazov The Catcher in the Rye The Silmarillion The Catcher in the Rye Siddhartha The Hobbit The Count of Monte Cristo Ender's Game A Room of One's Own The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Maltese Falcon The Gun Seller Of Mice and Men A Good Man is Hard to Find Mrs. Dalloway

My Blog

The Waiting Place (Excerpt from my short story)

I didn't want to wait. But she wasn't ready. Her lips were shut and bare. Her eyes were closed. Her shoes were untied and her necklac...
Posted by Kyle Czar on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:42:00 PST

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (My favorite poem)

The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil ...
Posted by Kyle Czar on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:11:00 PST

Why do we read fiction anyway?

Passage from the Introduction to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: "Why else do we read fiction anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our rea...
Posted by Kyle Czar on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:20:00 PST