My name is Ryan and this is my blog where I primarily intend to review works of fiction including books, anime, movies, and video games. Why? Because I enjoy to think, talk, and write about things I like, and I also enjoy putting things into a list like form. Reviewing and critiquing fiction combines both of these. I have a large backlog of stuff I'd like to talk about and bring to your attention if you were unaware of it, so my goal is to post a review every week or so. The name "Synthesis of the Arts" is the coolest translation I could find for the German word Gesamtkunstwerk a Wagnerian concept that I really like.
A little background about me. I am a professional programmer who only recently graduated from North Carolina State's computer science undergrad program. It pays well for my lifestyle, and I enjoy it. I aspire to eventually become a writer, hopefully combining the freedom of fantasy with the kind of psychological explorations of good and evil that you may know from authors such as Dostoevsky. I'll have more to say about him in some future post.
Now, why should you bother reading this? Odds are you somehow know me personally. Otherwise, I like to think I have a fairly unique perspective due to my combination of fictional interests. I like stereotypical geeky things like fantasy and sci-fi books, anime, and Japanese made video games. However, if you looked at my favorite literary works, most of them AREN'T that kind of stuff (Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand's works, Shakespeare are some of my favorite). I tend to not like the geeky stuff unless it somehow explores human emotion in a meaningful fashion in addition to its cool fantasy/sci-fi stuff, whereas a more ponderous work of "literature" had better have an interesting storyline in addition to its melodrama if I'm going to be fan.
A little background about me. I am a professional programmer who only recently graduated from North Carolina State's computer science undergrad program. It pays well for my lifestyle, and I enjoy it. I aspire to eventually become a writer, hopefully combining the freedom of fantasy with the kind of psychological explorations of good and evil that you may know from authors such as Dostoevsky. I'll have more to say about him in some future post.
Now, why should you bother reading this? Odds are you somehow know me personally. Otherwise, I like to think I have a fairly unique perspective due to my combination of fictional interests. I like stereotypical geeky things like fantasy and sci-fi books, anime, and Japanese made video games. However, if you looked at my favorite literary works, most of them AREN'T that kind of stuff (Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand's works, Shakespeare are some of my favorite). I tend to not like the geeky stuff unless it somehow explores human emotion in a meaningful fashion in addition to its cool fantasy/sci-fi stuff, whereas a more ponderous work of "literature" had better have an interesting storyline in addition to its melodrama if I'm going to be fan.
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