Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[Abookinthebath]

Hi everyone, I am really looking forward to contributing here. This site was recommended to me by a good friend who has told me all about the intelligent and interesting discussions here.

First up is Fahrenheit 451!

[Samuel]

Greetings everyone, I have been a long time lurker on the forums and up until now have never made a post. But I have decided to end that trend and start joining in the discussions. Reading is quite a new passion of mine and as of now I have only read, Crime and Punishment, 1984, Lord of the Flies and am very close to finishing War and Peace. After that I will go on to read Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudiced, and The Great Gatsby which all three I have on my shelf right now. (And after that I want to read Ulysses, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a few other by Nietzsche, also Jean-Paul Satre, along with Camus) So in short there is a lot that I want to read, there are far many more that I haven't named above, but a majority of them can be found in the Literature Networks Top 100 Books, which is actually the thing that made me stumble upon this site in the first place.

Can't wait to join in the conversation!

[Scheherazade]

the intelligent and interesting discussions here. :smilielol5:


Welcome to the Forum, one and all!

Please do not hesitate to PM me if you have any questions! :)

[Garry A-Vir]

Wow... introduction...yeah
I accidentally come in here ,the forums,and nice to meet you all here.
Yep i'm a freshman here,become one of the forum' members .Also my english ability is poor,so i wanna improve it latter on.
Yes,i like english novels.The first book i have read was The thorn birds,by Colleen McCullough,1977(classical !!)......

Although i'm tired on my engineer job ,but I like to read english novels after job-time.
I like popular music too.
Anybody? make friend with me by messages...and ....a foreign friend? yes,ICQ or email are all ok. we can taik about books & music together. ......Thanks very much if you can recommend som things in english to me .
Now...That's all.Thank U,best luck to U,my friends here .

[serenity185]

Hi, my name is Josh I mainly write poems but have started to branch out into short stories which was what lead me here :). I tend to explore human nature as well the emotions we all experience. But when I'm not doing this I write about places or describe scenes and I also write dark stories one of which I shall be uploading shortly.

I will openly admit now my punctuation is not perfect and for some people this detracts from the poem or stories I write. I apologise now if you are one of those people. What I will say is I am working on the punctuation :).

A little bit more information about me I'm 19 and I work for Four Seasons Health Care and enjoy writing in my spare time.

Josh

[Abookinthebath]

:smilielol5:


Welcome to the Forum, one and all!

Please do not hesitate to PM me if you have any questions! :)

Ack, alright, I'm being nice cos I've just joined!!

People might get upset if I'd mentioned the sublime and the ridiculous!

[Scheherazade]

Ack, alright, I'm being nice cos I've just joined!!

People might get upset if I'd mentioned the sublime and the ridiculous!Oh, I see! They become part of daily vocabulary in no time, though :smilewinkgrin:

Like the name, by the way!

[Abookinthebath]

Oh, I see! They become part of daily vocabulary in no time, though :smilewinkgrin:

Like the name, by the way!

Ha!

Yeah, its only because I was told once that reading in the bath was verging on blasphemy! Personally, I find that the smallest room in the house offers a sanctuary for reading!

[Omar Khafagy]

Hey folks!

I stumbled onto this site while searching for a few video lectures on Shakespeare. For those looking for some of the open ones, I highly recommend using iTunes.

Looking forward to getting to know you guys better and seeing your thoughts on your favorite literary works.

I have a particular love of sci-fi and horror. Speculative fiction in general, really. Anyone have any suggestions for sites to check out in those niches? Maybe some communities?

Thanks to the Forum owners for keeping the site well-maintained. I know how hard running a forum can be.

Peace,
Omar

[Night]

Guess I can't write as much as the previous people, but here goes:

Hey, I'm Night (it's my pen name), and I'm a high school students. I read lots of books and, unsurprisingly, am referred to as the nerd, since I know the answers to lots of things.

I love writing books. I've written about 15 now, but yeah, getting a publisher is hard. *sob* I'm studying lots of languages, specifically Japanese and Indonesian, but I can already speak three other languages. Hmm.

Anyway, I like music. I listen to all kinds of genres, actually, and I'm pretty good at playing the guitar.

I'm really nice, but I can get a little sarcastic sometimes. Oh, and I also draw. :P

Hmm...I guess that's it.. :))

[robdiener]

Hey, all. My name's Rob. Frankly, I'm here to promote myself. Specifically, the podcast/audiobook of a comedic novel I've written. It's called "Gonna Roll Myself Up to the Top of the Hill", and is essentially a fictional version of the history of rock 'n' roll, as told by its most notorious failure.

edit: sorry, didn't realize I couldn't post the link.

[Act of Otho]

Hey guys,

I'm Act of Otho. It's my Username on the Eragon forum. Otho means faith in the dwarven language in the Inheritance cycle. Call me a nerd if you will, but I love those books.

I'm here for help on my story that I'm writing. I can't figure out how to write the details in it. I also need some feedback on what I need to change. So, here I am.

[86.5parker]

Hi everyone i am also a newbie here i am steve parker i enjoyed here at forum i already posted some replies before i use to introduce my self..this forum is really cool because you can learn a lot about books poems etc..:yawnb:

[iamme90]

hello.. my name is ond, from indonesia.. and i'm newbie here.. i love reading book (not much,actually) since my major is english literature :) .. and now i'm working on my research -- examining a novel use some critical approaches.

i really enjoy this forum.. :D
because i can get some ideas for my research.. :)

[Scheherazade]

Welcome to the Forum, everyone! :)

Please do not hesitate to PM me if you have any questions about the Forum.

Scher

[pooka]

ok so I am brand new to this site and this is my first ever post, my name is Pooka and i'm a college student looking for help with my English comp 2 papers.. my professor isn't one for giving feedback until the final draft is passed in and my next paper is on poetry which is not a type of literature that I have spent a lot of time reading so I'm not all that familiar with good writers from the genre and could use some advice on finding a poem that I can make an arguement about that applies to society today as well as when the poem was written. I'm also a voracius reader and love to be told about new books that are great reads! I'm a horror/vampire/witch/sci-fi story addict and a Douglas Addams fan but read almost everything except romance novels, they just don't interest me at all. Since this is an introduction I'll also include that I'm 36 years old and am a mother to two daughters (ages 18 and 5) and one son (age 12).

[Scheherazade]

could use some advice on finding a poem that I can make an arguement about that applies to society today as well as when the poem was written.How about this poem?

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/546/

Welcome to the Forum :)

[Ian VotV]

Hi,

Ive just joined. My name is Ian and i'm quite new to writing.

Ive just become involved in the project where i'm going to have really brush up on my writing skills and hope i'll get some tips and direction from here. Ive got a couple of pieces on the net so far (but wont bore you with 'em......just yet)

Lovely to be here, look forward to chatting

ian x

[seethruskin]

Hey,
My name is Warren I am from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It rains here a lot, so I read books and watch a lot of movies. Stumbled on this forum, so I thought I'd check it out.

[Laszlo Jamf]

I'm Warren's brother Darren. We both read a lot. Hope to post here for a while.

[existentialgirl]

Hi everyone!
I have always loved literature and my senior year in high school, we spent the entire first semester reading existential works which started my love for existentialism. I am a French major, however, I will always love literature. That's about all I can think of for now, but I look forward to meeting everyone here and talking about literature!

[literaryzealot]

Hello there!

I'm very new to this forum, and quite happy to have found a place online to share ideas about literature.

I'm a recent college grad (English major) from Pennsylvania, but am currently living in France, where I'm working as an English language teaching assistant in a high school.

I love to read, write, and learn new languages, as well as travel. I've been fortunate in the last few years to have had the opportunity to live in Istanbul, Turkey for four months, and to have gone on a research trip to Nepal. My literary interests are diverse, but I'm particularly fascinated by the English Restoration Period, Gothic literature, representations of the East in European literature, and the postmodern. I'm currently finishing up Wm. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage, which I have enjoyed immensely.

I look forward to many good discussions here!

[Calilove]

I was surfing the internet wondering if there were any literature forums just like this. :yawnb: My ethnicity is Korean and have always been interested in English literature, although sometimes it is difficult to process the extremely artistic way of some pieces. My Korean name is Hong Chang Bae but I go by the name of Steve.

My hobbies include : singing, writing, reading, running, smoking(I am not sure if it is considered a hobby), organizing, and so many more.

I like any kind of literature that requires me to think and rethink to understand the idea. In other words, I like DEEP literature. :yawnb:

By being involved in this forum I look forward to meeting new people with similar interests as I have, and also I am looking forward to be criticized for the writing pieces that I want to upload! :thumbsup:

[amca01]

Hi folks,

51 year old mathematics academic here, with a serious love of reading. Currently reading Arthur Hugh Clough's "The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich" and William Cowper's "The Task". I am in fact very inexperienced in reading poetry - especially long poems - and I'm looking forward to some discussions on these boards.

-A.

[imalizya]

Hello every one from imalizya

[GioGraphIck]

Hi, Im Jesse

I've started to read more and I thought this would be a cool place to talk about the books im reading and maybe get some ideas for another books to read.

[Taffs]

I just wanted to know about an old etching of Stratford upon Avon signed by C. Dickens...and was directed to this forum. Had to sign up to see if there were any answers. There were. No goldmine in the etching but this is a rather interesting site for me...a bibilophile. Looking forward to dropping in from time to time.

[McLovin]

Hello, I am a new member and very interested in literature. Feels great to make my first post!

[KCurtis]

I am new here, and I have posted a few times. I am an educational assistant in a middle school, I work with special needs students.:banghead:
My favorite book so far is "The Great Gatsby". I say so far, because I have not read all books. I intend to read more of the classics, and I think my next venture will be a Saul Bellow book- "The Adventures Of Auggie March". I really hope that's the correct title, or, :iamwithstupid:
K Curtis

[Brian59]

Hi everyone, i'm new to this site but thought it looked like a good place to meet book nerds like myself. I'm looking forward to discussing literature and making some new friends

[almostvoid]

It is a pleasure to be here. I am not an intense blogger. More occasional voyer into the creative minds of us writers and readers in pursuit of our diverse minds seeking new horizons, manifold perspectives and insightful revelations. To be shared at times on introspection. Or rushes of exuberance between creative bouts of genius. [I pass here haha-my brain is simply manic at times and out of control.] It’s great to be here. Given I am in to science fiction I wont define here. Except to revel in the idea of the possibilites of hyperspace entwined within the digital data realms of the internet where strangeness lurks…it’s my brain again.

[naluneabezshapk]

Hello, my name is Aleksey.

I joined these forums to discuss works that I have read with others.

[Delta40]

good grief! I'm too scared to pronounce your avatar name lol! Welcome to Lit-Net. I seldom visit the forums which discuss works by famous authors unfortunately but I do like to welcome newcomers.

[CarpeNixta]

Hello everyone.
I found this site and have been enjoying it for some days and decided to join.
I love to read, I also like to see other opinions so I can find different authors.

[LadyLuck]

Figured I would drop in to say "hello". Let's just say that I'm new and old all at the same time. I'm an old friend with a new identity, but I'll be around to say hi to those I still know :D

[Damnesia]

Hi I'm Damnesia,

Resitting my AS english literature, Great Gatsby and Frost/Thomas poems.

Also doing A2 english literature, The scarlet letter, the butcher boy and catcher in the rye, Murder in the cathedral, A man for all seaons and finally Chaucer, the pardoners tale.

Thought I'd sign up to increase my knowledge of the books. Also love reading in my spare time (when I get a chance) and would love recommendations.

I personally would recommend one day to everyone!

:)

[justaStorie]

Hello,

Just signed up and wanted to say hello to everyone here. I'll be lurking around for now and see what's up.

Regards,
JT

[Realist101]

Hello to all! I'm a member of a site called Fanstory, where I post my writing and read others work ... I am looking to grow and expand, maybe learn enough to jump into the muddy waters and write my book. I am in the autumn of my life, but still young at heart. I love good art, horses, nature, peace and quiet and an outstanding read. I was drawn here because of my admiration for Flannery O'Conner...;):smile5 Susan

[Cornerforward]

Hello everybody, I am a 'newbie' to the forum and in fact to forums in general. I'm Irish and studying New Media and Literature at the University of Limerick. I have two years of a four year undergraduate degree almost complete. I attend as a mature student (44yrs).

[behnjahmyn]

Greetings, Im new on here of course. Looking for a place with fun discussions and online friends, not a big fan of facebook or twitter or the like. Fondly remember the old days of AOL, that was pretty fun, if only for its newness maybe, (I would not say innocence!, perhaps Naivety?) Im living in El Paso, Texas and work night shifts and read in the mornings. Some of my favorite authors are,John Steinbeck, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Samuel R. Delany, Stephen King, Nathaniel Hawthorn, William Gibson, Leo Tolstoy. Thanks!

[han401]

Hello everyone,
I am excited to be part of this forum and to have the chance to talk about literature. I have made a blog for the purpose of promoting debate about literature and authors. If you have the time please check it out, thanks!
{edit}

[Rebbelious]

Hey! Im a new member...I can't wait to publish my short stories, share ideas and opinions and get feedback...I m really excited ...What a pleasure to have u as friends... I hope u accept me as a a faithful friend ...
Thanks

[mamajune]

I'm New and I need help with my English class, Can anyone tell me What pretty How Town is about?:smile5:

[Scheherazade]

I'm New and I need help with my English class, Can anyone tell me What pretty How Town is about?:smile5:There has been a long discussion on this poem last year. Please read the posts following this one:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=962956&highlight=pretty#post962956


Welcome to the Forum, everyone! Please PM me if you have any question regarding the Forum.

:)

[Nadia k]

Hello people....
I hope I'm using this thing right. Anyways I'm here to learn how to discuss English literature cause this is my specialization in college, I'm an Arabian girl and I need your support to reach a good fluency level not just in literature but in English in general .
I want to learn from you and share my humble knowledge with you and get your feedback.

Thanxez ;)

[haruharu]

Hi, everyone-- I'm a high school student from Atlanta. I joined this board mostly to receive some criticism on my short fiction, but I'm also looking forward to talking about lit with you all.

Thanks!

[Silvia1971]

Good morning, I am new here, I found this forum because I am very fond of litterature and I am always looking for news about my favorite authors and topics. I am Italian and my English isn't so good as I wish, but I study to improve it. I love reading very much, my favorite authors are Shakespeare, Austen , Hugo, Dante and many others, I like reading in origlinal languages whenever is possible, in French, English, Italian and a little Spanish. thank you, Silvia. It's my real name.

[Teritus]

Hello everyone, I'm new here. I joined this forum of course to discuss literature. I love reading, particulary Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes books, and I enjoy history like the sinking of the Titanic, and am a member of Encyclopedia Titanica.

[DaphneFree]

Hello Everyone. My name Is Daphne. I love to read good literature and look forward to discussing it with you. I have been here as a guest a few times and have enjoyed the insights from the members. Very much looking forward to learning from all of you.

Thanks Daphne

[Zackery]

Hello everyone. My name is Zackery, or Zack, and I am a new user of this website. Hopefully I can talk to most of you and get to know you and vise versa. Hope to here from you and become friends.

[TerryPersun]

It's nice to know so many people read literature these days. I am looking forward to meeting more of you in conversation. -Terry

[Prairie]

I have been here only five minutes, and already I see a quotation by someone here from my favorite novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, and elsewhere I see a reference to Steinbeck, which reminds me that I forgot to include him among my favorite authors. My writing is not about the people who left during the dust bowl, but the people who stayed, Rain: {edit} I hope to visit often and see what others are thinking. Thank you.

[Moein]

I am Moein. It is very delightful to be among peple who love literature.

Excuse me, can anybody say what is the theme of Bram Stoker's Dracula/
Moein
ur kind reply is highly appreciated

[cloud0819]

Hello guys. I'm not actually a lit kid as in literature major, I just happen to love Shakespeare and e. A. Poe and the problem Is that I don't clearly get them. Of course there are available resources in the web but there were things that I wanted to know that were not there so I'm hoping that I shall find it here. Also I wanted to learn how to write poems and prose creatively and I want to learn some critical thinking tips when you criticise a poem or prose.I just want to learn lots of things that engineers won't teach you. That's all thank you. I'm looking forward to all of you :)

[RandomRak]

HI folks,
I am an engineer. I love music, reading and watching football. I love exploring things and talking and learning about random things. So hope u all would help with that!!!

cheers,
Raks.

[Quintus Ennius]

I am a high school student and I love to read, play piano and look though my telescope. I really enjoy reading Russian literature, Dostoesvky and Gogol are my favorite. If any of you could give me any recommendations off of those it would be great.

[Tuba.Malik]

hi mTuba i love literature i am to tak interview of lecturer english plz guide me thanks

[qimissung]

Hi guys, and welcome. Cloud-literature and poetry in particular are always mysterious. With a little practice you will unlock their mysteries. :)

[Smoky Bones]

Greetings from the frozen tundra of Southern Ontario. I have a voracious appetite for reading tending towords fiction, geo-politics and theology.
I am technologicly inept and a terrible typist so my responses in discussions may be agonizingly slow in appearring. Looking forward to interesting , lively but civil discussions.

This post took eight hours to type.:biggrinjester:

[TyllaCampbell1]

I'm Tylla, I live for street dancing. Hi.

[Wrestlezone]

Hi, I joined this forum just cause. Great introduction right?

[Varenne Rodin]

That's excellent, Wrestlezone. I wish you and the others welcome. Have fun!

[Cross]

Hello. My name is Mike. I've been looking for a halfway decent literature forum to post my stories and stuff on, but the last few I've looked at have been either dead, or full of ad bots. So I'm trying again here I guess.

So I've been writing for fun for about six years (since I was eleven), I wrote a two hunderd page zombie book when I was fifteen that almost got published and since then I've been trying to outdo myself in description and characterization to actually get one of my stories published.

So hi, and I look forward to becoming part of the community here.

[f.n.fafarin]

hi. i am a new member of the forum. i hope i learn many things here. nice to meet you all...

[cyvan]

Hi everyone!

[Winter Lite]

Hi... Just call me Winter Lite. My beloved pseudonym :)

I'm 14 and Indonesian. I may not critical and intelligent in dictions, syntaxes, or everything like that. But I like literature. I love short stories the best, rather than novels. Here's my story.

My first short story, when I was realized that literature is interesting is The Locket, from Kate Chopin. It was on the Typing master v6.01 LOL! It was quite long, and I try to comprehend the story -- failed, don't understand. I just know that the soldier was dead. and Octavie love him. And that's why I like it. The complexity of plotting and where and when the story takes places and time. I mean, it suddenly shift to another part of the life. In The Locket, I'm talking about from the bonfire of the soldiers, moved to a woman named Octavie.

The next short stories I read is Difficult People, The Lottery Ticket, and The Chorus Girl -- Chekhov's. The Difficult People is hard to me at the first glances, I must read it more. But I got The Lottery Ticket, and The Chorus Girl key. The lost of false future dreams (Lottery Ticket), and the poor innocent chorus girl, being humiliated on the second time. Hehe.

My favorite story right now is The Trousseau. I like its description from the beginning of the story. Like : ... drowned in a perfect sea of green. The absence of care for the nature surrounding them, etc. I like its timing though. The first visit is taking on "many years ago", The second : "7 years after the first", and the third : "A year ago". See the ambiguity? Well, so many things I love in this story.

I joined this forum, because I think I'll be able to find some good recommendations from the experts here. There are many stories out there I haven't read. I'm just curious. And for the interesting discussions also will be a learning pack for me.

The first time I visited this forum is simply writing on Google : the trousseau chekhov's analysis. And it brought me here. And whew... It was on 2009 and was very long discussions, yet interesting. They're very critical about the single detail on the story. Like the word "fate" on The Trousseau. A single word can make the reader feel curious.

So... why I'm talking about the stories? LOL! That's from me. Nice to meet you all~

[Dots Daughter]

Hello

I'm Dots Daughter and hope to spend time here enjoying the views and creations of others.

[Franny Seymour]

Hello,

I'm Franny.S, I come from France.

I like, sorry, I mean, I love J.D Salinger, US and GB literature.

Pleased to be there.

[saad]

hi to all

[cemelie]

Hi all, my name is Cemelia from Singapore. I first found my passion for literature when I was 14. My favourite are short novels. Nice to e-meet people with the same passion here! :wink5:

[Kitkat2114]

Well today is my first day, someone pointing me in the direction of the site to hone our writing skills.

Well I'm not good at introducing myself, I'm from the UK but I've travelled around a fair bit from visiting to States to spending six months in New Zealand all of which has helped give me experience and inspiration for my writing.

I love reading and writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy but have written short stories in all genres. Currently working on a book but having a go at doing some more short stories.

[phlarengeto]

My name is phlarengento, I am trying to see if my old writing has any strength. Please lemme know.:banana: also Im sick of this animation/

[Jillian+]

Hello. I'm Jillian and I like reading, but I'm bad at writing about it. I joined because I thought someone might be able to help me out with a literature based research paper that I'm writing.

[bowtiesarecool]

Hello all, I'm Christina!

I've always loved literature and am currently taking an English Lit A Level at home through home study as I work full-time. It's rather difficult to keep yourself motivated after a long day's work, and plus I don't always have the benefit of being able to discuss the works I am studying with others who appreciate them as I do. This is what I'm hoping to find here!

Hopefully, you guys will be able to help me out with some in-depth discussion and on broadening my knowledge of literature in general!

I look forward to getting to know you all!

[Frank Hoo]

Wow, so many member here, say hello to everybody!

[Alex Chu]

hay!I'm alex, hope this great site could offer me a lot valuable sources and discussion about the books i read.

[evansan7]

Hi all,

I'm Angela. I'm in my last year of college and am planning on going to PA school a year or so after graduation. I love hiking, horseback riding, and obviously reading. This looks like a great discussion forum, and I'm excited to be here!

[qimissung]

And we are excited to have you all. Welcome!

[elineholst]

a great day to everyone!:bigear:

i'm new to this forum and hoping that i will be able to stay as long as it exist.lol I really love reading, my hobby during my free time, i was on sales bdy:banana:

thanks for accepting to be one of you..:)

[Edward Alick]

ok,hello everybody.i'm from china. i just join this forum.ym english si poor.And i want to learn more funs thing in this forum. thank you.

[mgh]

Hi
I am a new member
I interest english language and I am MA collegue student in english translation filed
I have liked story very much since child hood to now
I hope to be useful and can be use other,s knowledge
sincerely you
mgh

[Autumn]

I'm not a huge online forum kinda gal. I have a facebook that I occasionally wander over to, but that's about it. However, since my friends have repeatedly failed me on the book club front-- here I am. I have decided to hit the virtual world running. I'm not exactly sure what this site is all about or if it really is what I'm looking for, but it definitely caught my interest and I'm hopeful!!

If anyone is actually reading this, my name is Autumn. I'm 29, soon to be 30 and moderately freaking out about that. I have degrees in Communications and International Relations. I love music, theatre and all forms of self expression.

I'm far from your stereotypical intellectual type, but I would really like to read and discuss classic literature. I'm outgoing and outspoken so feel free to ask me anything you'd like to know!!

[Kensai]

I'm a fourth year art student at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. My tutors encouraged me to work more with writing since I do so much anyway. I started a blog and wanted to reach out to more people.

Since I chose to write my dissertation on time travel I've been reading stuff like Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Jorge Luis Borges collection Labyrinths. I've been looking into multiverse and other ideas related and writing a lot about that just now but sci fi in general is my bag. Hopefully I'll post something on here that will be worthy of attention for someone to look up my writing blog Mindscape Words.

[j.hart]

Hello everyone!

I'm Jenny, live in LA, and I LOVE the written word. I studied literature in college, and I continue to enjoy reading and writing it. I'm trying to write a children's book by the end of this year, and my sister-in-law is going to be illustrating it, so I'm very excited.

Anyways, I look forward to being a part of this forum. It's great to meet people who are passionate about literature as I am. It's like a...

:party:

=)

[MQ50]

Hi I'm Margaret :)

[MQ50]

New to this site

[MQ50]

Has anyone read the book Kindred? By Octavia E. Butler

[Zemouli Chahra]

I'm a new member... who can tell me what to do. how to do... what can i gain and who would help me here.
Please I'm in need to your help

[jiae_iii]

Hi, I'm a writer of short stories and poetry. I have written 3 so far each of which I am happy to offer to be adapted into a short film or a feature length film. 2 of them I'm happy to let use for free, provided I am credited. I am also in the process of a sequel to the one I'm not willing to let use of for free and a novel. I also write song lyrics and music and enjoy drawing.

[Scout]

Hello friends,

This is my first visit to the forum so I thought I'd say hello to all you fellow writers, critics and readers.

Ghossujo

http://freudened.blogspot.com/

Dear People,
I hope you think all of the things I write are good. I am a Jr. member so I am sorta new to this. But if you now me I'm a devil!

Scout


Has anyone read the book Kindred? By Octavia E. Butler

No well I haven't

Scout


Hi, I'm a writer of short stories and poetry. I have written 3 so far each of which I am happy to offer to be adapted into a short film or a feature length film. 2 of them I'm happy to let use for free, provided I am credited. I am also in the process of a sequel to the one I'm not willing to let use of for free and a novel. I also write song lyrics and music and enjoy drawing.

I draw a lot so I love to! My parents say I am very good ( That makes me happy) I hope that one day I will be selling them!!

Quick reply

I am new to this website. I would like to be known as a Jr. member !!

Hi I think this website is cool!
Do you?

[QUOTE=MQ50;1098905]New to this site[/QUOT

Me too!

Delicious cupcake
It tastes so good in my mouth
Just caught red handed

:) I am very happy I joined this website!
Have you ever read New Moon

[samanimz]

I am new here to the forum, and this looked like the place to start. I have been taking my writing more seriously recently, but in the absence of school I have decided to join a forum. I am going to take a look around and hopefully you will see me more often. Thanks!

..

[Electric]

Well, I am electric, Hello everybody.

[WARRIOR80]

THANKS . good site . nice work .

[WARRIOR80]

THANKS . good site . nice work .

[Scout]

Hello me again ( Scout) um I really like this site I think you do too! As I have said before I am a Jr. Member so I am not that good at writing haiku's I posted one today maybe you can look it over and then give me some advice if you do thanks but if you don't I'm fine with that. Have a nice day.

Scout

[Scout]

Hi I'm Scout. I am new to this site so I don't know my way around. I just wanted to say happy new year! I am a Jr. member so I am working on my Haiku's, maybe you have read some of them.

[Vanity Fairy]

Hi,

This is my first post... I am Italian and I love English and American Literature!
Sorry for any error in syntax or vocabulary I may make, I used to write and speak a lot into English when working with tourists and travellers, now I am only able to see movies or to read books....!

Ciao!

[timmyeckhart]

Hello, I'm Tim from NJ, I'm new here, so just wanted to introduce myself.

[Yasaman]

Hi, I'm a dedicated English literature lover from Iran.

This is my first visit here and I think these forums rock!

[bhaskar]

Hello, I am Bhaskar. I live in this world. I am fifty. I love small stories. I try to write small stories. I hope to read stories written by others in the website and to send comment. I shall also send stories. I hope you will accept them.

[Aunt Mable]

Hi, I'm Mabel, I'm old but I love young adult stories and Stephanie Plum and my Kindle.

[dysfunctional-h]

Hi, I'm Anthony. I love to analyze prose and review music on my blog: dysfunctional-harmony.tumblr.com

[jstoh]

Hi Everyone!

I'm new to the forum and excited to exchange literary ideas with fellow bibliophiles.

A little about me: I returned to college in my late 40's to finish my undergrad degree at the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature. It was demanding, stimulating, and oh so wonderful! In order keep myself reading and discussing great works, I started a Classic Book Club with some great women 2 years ago. I've come to this site in the past to glean some wisdom for our discussions. I love to write and hope to publish one day. I'm not a good self-promoter, which could be code for a lack of confidence and/or courage to take some risks at rejection!

Besides reading and writing, I love to knit, cook, and my husband and I work with college students in our church. That has become a very rewarding part of my life--to invest time in the next generation. I have 2 daughters who are currently out of the nest, and we're enjoying a new phase of life. I have a passion for learning and knowledge and the way it opens me up to new possibilities and often new people. I speak a little German and want desperately to learn Spanish. Thanks, everyone!

[odliam]

This is a very difficult step!

It is not easy to speak about oneself and at the same time try to give a good first impression since it is by these words I will be remembered forever in this forum!

Just arriving to the neighborhood, being the new guy in the area, what can I say?:

"Hi everybody!" or "Esteemed fellow members!"

The first is overly familiar for a first time, too early to use it!

The second is... how to put it? Too pedantic!

So how to start this?

Well, close the eyes and jump into the arena:

Hello forum people, I am happy to share this place with you all!

(OK, it seems fifty-fifty)

Now, the second part is as hard as the first: How do I describe myself?

"I am a writer!" No, no, too early to be a writer, maybe with time I will earn the definition but not now.

"I am an amateur writer!" This is true, but I do not like to show me too humble after all!


Here we go:

I love to write and I think here I have the opportunity to make my work known and get evaluated, to participate in a place with talented people who may review, edit, and comment my need to endow posterity with a string of words in disguise of a story. And with time, learn to reciprocate in kind.


My 'bio' is plain enough:

I was born! Undoubtedly!

Then I tried hard to recognize the difference between the white and black that gives form to the letters that make the words of our beautiful language, and now, in the spaces that my work and travels allow me, I try to become a "storyteller".

In my eagerness to know the end of a tale when I am writing, I end up writing micro-stories, mini-stories, or nano-stories since I cannot wait all the time to reach the end of a novel.

Having in mind a statement made by Stephen King about his will to write a short story always ends in a big volume, I will end this introduction here, before it takes the path toward a lengthy script.

I must also add, that the similitude with Mr. King in writing, is only in the way I can make grow a description of myself. Unfortunately, there is no similitude en talent!


Thank you for reading all this rigmarole!

[aravindakshan]

hi all .. i am new to this site.. i havent read more books. but i like john grisham,borges.. i watch lot of movies...

[Colin Gallagher]

I found this website on the recomendation of a friend. It looks good. I want to get involved in the dialog. Short stories are my favorite: reading and writing. I have done some poetry. Also, I have written one Fantasy Novel, no luck yet towards publication.
I live in LA here in the San Fernando Valley, and am involved in some 12 step groups, and attend a couple classes at a local Community College. I love animals, reading and writing, for the last 5 years I have been vegitarian. I use to smoke, but not anymore. They were tough to get rid of but I managed to kick the habit.
I am eager to read some of your short stories and poetry, and share some of mine.

[Delta40]

Hi Colin. Welcome to Lit-Net. Glad you gave up smoking. I quit for 16 years and started again so i'd appreciate any tips! The short story and poetry section is really good and I look forward to reading and posting on your work and I would encourage you to post on others as well.

[irre]

Hi, everyone, I'm new to the forum and looking forward to joining in =) My name is Irena, I'm 22 and I'm from Bulgaria.

I've always been rather in love with the English language /well, that and almost every other language I've ever studied/ and that is partly the reason why I became an English teacher here in Bulgaria. That is also the reason why I absolutely adore poetry, stories, plays and any other form of expression that allows you to play around with words :)

On that note, I am currently participating in a contest called Let's Talk Shakespeare, which is interesting, because what you have to do is film yourself reading Hamlet's soliloquy. Anyone can try, but of course that only refers to people in the country, sorry. Anyway, the winner with the most likes goes on a trip to Shakespeare's birthplace, which would be so exciting. Here's the video, if you feel like lending a hand and liking, I would be ever so grateful =)

http://shakespeare.intellect.bg/2012/01/15/15-01-12190419/

/ I know it's rubbish, I'm no actor, but it was still a lot of fun to do it :) /

So thanks for taking the time to read my introduction and let the discussing begin! ^^

[baffman]

I'm a grad student, and I really like to discuss Shakespeare's works with others, no matter how much more they know about the plays than I do. Do you ever suppose that Shakespeare was trying to say something really BIG in any of his works? Please let me know!

[MADHUMITA]

hi all....
m new here....lst yr did finish my grduation.....in eng lit ....hvnt been abl 2 read too much bt m fond of reading ......n hope i vl get a lot more of things here 2 read :

[Ragarm]

Hello all. I just registered here and hope to peer through this porthole onto life's expanses. I've tended to focus on pursuits, a trait that serves one well, while too often leaving the panorama unappreciated. I've come here to slake my thirst for well expressed ideas about well expressed ideas, and from what I've sampled so far, I've found reason to be optimistic. I don't expect to agree with probably 90% of what I find here, but I'll try to appreciate the thoughts expressed as much as I'll enjoy those provoked.

[educatedNreverS]

Id like to introduce myself simply through a piece of my own writing. I can think of no better way to do so.....Glad to join The Literature Network, this is me:

....
This is why you came here. This, possibly, is the result of sitting in the same spot trying to remember the same thoughts; the ones that slipped away. So, it’s just a matter of time now. Rather, a sordid negligence for the realization that you can’t bring time down, or take it with you to say- in the minimal sense; not in this place; not in this tense. And from that comes a certain tension, in mind or of it, that every intention paid henceforth to ascertain an attention of “mine”, but in this case, above it, and in every way the same as the subversive retention and blame, but only in passing, of an ascetic so passively ashen. Who could really feel like this? Could anyone be this pathetically passionate??
....

[amyylovesausten]

Hello, so I'm pretty new at all of this, but I am beginning to gain an appreciation for classic works. I want to read more and learn from discussing with others!

[mike321]

Hi everyone,

I am Mike Fisherman from CA. I am 26 years old and I am a mechanical engineer. I love to swim and para-glide. I am a bit crazy about Football and I am a huge fan of Ronaldo.

[Griffing2]

Hello all,
Just wanted to stop in and say new reader/writer in the midst. I look forward to reading your stories and hearing your criticism on my own work. Thank you!

[Tobia]

Hello!

I'm a Master's student at Oxford, studying creative writing. I currently live in Vancouver, BC and occasionally make money writing for magazines and teaching after-school creative writing classes to teenagers. Exciting, I know.

Cheers!

[Wayfarer32]

Hello

I am a long graduated English Major, seeking to get back to her literature loving roots. I live in Portland, OR and I work in the insurance industry (basically an underwriter) and love reading, writing and taking care of my husband and son.

I look forward to further conversations.

Cheers!

[Berlinica]

Hi — I‘m Eva, a small publisher based in New York; I am publishing books, movies, and music from Berlin. The next book will be "Mark Twain in Berlin". I am also a journalist and an author. My last literary book was "Manhattan Moments", and my last book is about the Tea Party.

[Nocult]

I'm here to share knowledge via story &inspiration with poetry like this I wrote for a gal starting to learn guitar..caution, my writing is somtimes slightly erotic! Here's a taste:

Hinterwinter Music
white peaceful & bright the sun shines
gleaming gold from the deepest of mines
music plays from strings vibrating from your astute hands
that lights all hearts in the park as if in a paradise of fruit & sands
sounds from playing bring around children by a fountain
as finishing the song you feel as if just climbed the highest mountain
later we sell cinnamon rolls homemade & perfect smiles we receive like beautiful tiles
with roses around we kept inside, at night show our love in the snow
as a sunflower grows in Spring, inside energy flows until eyes are aglow

& plz enjoy this too, mostly i'm interested in nature, truth, expansion & love so be honest with what you think!

Food paradise
fields of oats & abundance in many notes
apples blooming by every road
falling & jumping from trees peaches grow more than in a marsh does tadpoles & toads
Green houses shoot up life in oreganos & basil & the water that sprays around dazzles
as light effuses the land & levitates lifeforce in splenderous giant & succulent strawberries
that are used in fruit salads with brown sugar from mammoth canes
reaching the sky as the cherry & durian trees on many lanes
chaga mushrooms on lots of trees glowing bright white
used in teas along with rooibos & mints perfuming the land as lavender & lifts all as wind to a kite

[smike]

Hello there, I just joined your forum because it seems like a good place with good people :)

I have been told that lists are good so:

- I am 25

- I live in the UK

- My love for literature / English was recently rekindled, on an epiphany type basis (after five years of full time employment, I came to the stunning realisation of what I want, which is to be a teacher)

- In terms of what I 'do' in my spare time, well another list is really in order but currently I'm TRYING to keep a handle on the following: writing some fiction, writing some music, learning project management, learning German, learning to maintain my motorcycle, learning to ride my motorcycle, drawing (bad) pencil portraits, joining an athletics/running club, volunteering at youth groups, volunteering at cub scouts, planting trees, applying for jobs left right and centre (this in advance of applying for a teaching degree, later in the year), brushing up on my world history, brushing up on my literature, getting pretty good with Christian apologetics, flying to visit my girlfriend every few weeks - and generally trying to be grateful for things too.

I'm looking forward to getting involved here, so take care and see you around :)

[LittleBenjamin]

Hello Readers All!

I am a Latin and Greek teacher from London. I enjoy reading a variety of literature and discussing prose and poetry with other readers, so this seems like the forum for me.

Ben

[aheartflash]

laughter, light and love... :grouphug:

[Paige_Kapus]

Hi I'm Paige. I'm 16 and i love reading. Though i don't read as many classics as i should, i love the fantasy worlds created by authors like Tamora Pierce, Christopher Paolini and Brian Davis. I love :driving: and doing stupid things with my friends. Movies are awesome (any Sherlock Holmes fans??) and tv is cool. Other than that, I'm a pretty simple person

[PMLondonderry]

Hello everyone. I am an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I love to clean, cook, decorate, make things, etc. My favorite book is The Scarlet Letter. My favorite author is J.R.R Tolkien (I am an unapologetic LOTR fan) and I am currently reading Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau for academic purposes (and for kicks. I love my transcendentalists) and, when the rare bit of free time comes by way, I am in the middle of the Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Hello everyone. I am an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I love to clean, cook, decorate, make things, etc. My favorite book is The Scarlet Letter. My favorite author is J.R.R Tolkien (I am an unapologetic LOTR fan) and I am currently reading Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau for academic purposes (and for kicks. I love my transcendentalists) and, when the rare bit of free time comes by way, I am in the middle of the Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.

Welcome, PML. Reading over the few posts you've written, I think you'll make a great addition to this forum. You seem to be thoughtful and informed.

And I'm also a fan of Martin's Ice and Fire series. Check out this thread (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40477) for discussion and some heated debate that took place.

[PMLondonderry]

Welcome, PML. Reading over the few posts you've written, I think you'll make a great addition to this forum. You seem to be thoughtful and informed.

And I'm also a fan of Martin's Ice and Fire series. Check out this thread (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40477) for discussion and some heated debate that took place.

Thank you very much! I appreciated your other welcome in the Postmodernism thread as well. :)

I haven't been able to finish the series yet (or even finish the first book yet!) since I have so many other books on my plate from school but I would love to take part in that discussion. I will pop by soon. Thanks again for the warm welcome!

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Sure. Watch out for spoilers in that thread. I almost always give a spoiler warning, but not everyone else does.

[diome]

Hi! I'm 35 and have enjoyed reading for the most part of my life. I also write a bit. I've studied cultural history, and have many interests. Also many favorite authors and books.;)

[Nightowlpip]

Well Hi there!

I am new here, so I still need to get used to everything hehe
I am particularly interested in Charles Dickens, he is my favourite author. If anyone knows about some interesting threads concerning him please let me know hehe :D
A lot of people say that Terry Pratchett is the Dickens of the 21st Century, do you think so?

[DynamicDhaliwal]

Hi Everyone
I am a research Scholar working on Nadine Gordimer.
I have been an ardent lover of literature throughout my life and will continue loving it till the last day of my life.....
I am interested into the writings of other writers based in South Africa.....as I am working on the novels and short stories of Gordimer...It will be a great help to me if i get a chance to know about other regional and little known writers of South Africa besides the big giants like Mphalele, Guma, Coetzee (I know he is based in Australia these days still he has his roots there in SA) and Steve Biko.
Cheers

[Shazz]

Hello to all... my intro... well, love music, photography, surfing and good wine + good reads!!! Yes. I'm one of the weird ones who still likes a good paperback novel or a trade book with me at my bedside or on the train!! Hobbies: photography both in color & B/W. Fav books: usually sci/fi or good bio works/
Fav stories: Erotica
Over & Out!

[varhem]

hello.i love shakespeare's plays.thats all for now

[McFadden]

hi I'm Luke, i live in the mountains of Wicklow in the Eastern province of Leinster in Ireland, not too far from the Irish Sea and often at certain times one can connect with a sense of mythology what with sea-mists and the long view through the pines ... I think America must be a fantastic country to produce a writer like Cormac McCarthy who I think is pretty much unsurpassed in modern fiction writing ... perhaps JM Coetzee's earlier work is as awesome but i feel blessed on the planet at present to have two living greats among us ...

anybody come across an American writer in the same league as McCarthy?

[Learner]

Hi,

I've chosen this nickname because I'm not a native English speaker and would like to improve my English by reading English literature and, I hope, by talking about it here in this forum.

I excuse myself in advance for all my grammar and spelling mistakes. Please feel free to correct me. I'm always grateful for any helpful hints concerning my English.

Learner

[zzwigee]

Hello, my name is Zachariah. I enjoy literature, as does everyone else on this forum, I would assume. Some of my favourite authors are Kafka, Daniel Quinn, Neil Gaiman, Nabakov, Beckett, Gene Wolf, and quite a few others. I enjoy writing in my spare time and am looking forward to discussing literature with people who share my passions.

[HIYA]

hye dis is hiya. i am a new member of ur interesting family.

i am a student of literature who is really enjoying enlish literature. i just totally love it. i even love writting amd am a v big dreamer. i love the world whose name is imagination

[Nessmess]

Hi Everybody I'm a new member in this forum
I'd like to be a good reader of books but i do not really manage to do that
One of my main focus today is "Moon Palace" by Paul Auster , If Anyone can help me in my research i will be grateful to receive his/her addition .
Thank You so much For your attention. :)

[Samsom]

Hi,Best regards to you all.

[RaraAvis]

Just for the sake of posting my very first comment, here goes.
Hi everyone, Kartik here. Reading has been my most cherished hobby for as long as I can remember, and some of the most beautiful memories of my childhood revolve around a book.
Whiling away time lost in the innocent world of kid detectives, mythical creatures and far-away magical lands as I was nursing a fractured leg, spending hours blissfully lost in the aisles of a favorite bookstore, waking through entire nights during my vacations, desperate to reach the end of the latest masterpiece I'd endeavored to finish.
My interest has veered towards non-fiction today (largely history, sociology and linguistics) but prose is still what excites me.
Looking forward to interacting with fellow bibliophiles.


Hi,

I've chosen this nickname because I'm not a native English speaker and would like to improve my English by reading English literature and, I hope, by talking about it here in this forum.

I excuse myself in advance for all my grammar and spelling mistakes. Please feel free to correct me. I'm always grateful for any helpful hints concerning my English.

Learner

How delightfully modest of you to talk like that, you write flawlessly! I'd puff my chest, dig a flagpole into the ground, shout out Tarzan-style, and then proceed to party for days if I ever realized I'd reached that kind of a level in German. :P
Good luck, by the way.

[Ozy]

Hello everyone, I'm very glad that I've stumbled upon this forum during my internet travels. I'm currently reading Dante, which I love. I have a vast literary taste, not quite set on one specific genre.

[prob]

Hi Everyone.
First of all sorry for my broken English. Not much time ago I started to study English because I wanted to read my favorite authors in their own language. After a while I thought a forum could be a good chance to improve my new skill, so I came across this forum and I read some verse and short story. I liked them. So this is why I am here now.
By the way this is my first writing in English.

About me I dare say that I can love many things within five minutes, several things within some day or some week, but there are just three things I love forever, that is my wife, books and good wine.
It was nice meeting you.

[shangib74]

Hi I am new here and actually stumbled across this site by accident but I am so glad I did. I found my love for reading late in life and now I have my BA in Literature. I am currently working on my masters degree in Education and my teaching certificate for secondary education. I will be teaching literature one day very soon!!! I look forward to looking through this forum even more and seeing what everyone has to say!

[Micky Fudge]

Hello everybody!

My name is Michael Porter. 'Micky Fudge' was my father's pet name for me when I was a child. He also called me 'Mick Mack Fudgelorum', but I thought if I chose that as my username you might doubt my sanity. If I were compelled to name my favourite poem, I think I would have to choose 'New Year Letter' by W H Auden, but then I would regret not having chosen 'Strange Meeting', or 'Dover Beach', or Barnfield's 'Sonnet 11' or a whole host of others.

I'd like to share two poems with you. The first is one of the Harper's Songs from Ancient Egypt. It's addressed to a young man by a girl who loves him. Egyptian girls called their lovers their brothers.

Come to me, my brother,
Like a charger on the battlefield,
Like a bull to his pasture,
For the heaven is sending us love
Like a flame spreading through straw,
And desire like the swoop of the falcon.

The second poem comes from the Finnish Kanteletar. A girl longs for the return of her soldier:

Should my treasure come,
My darling walk by,
I'd know him by his footsteps,
Recognise him by his tread.

As mist I'd go out,
As smoke I would reach him,
As sparks I would speed,
As flame I would fly.

I'd kiss his mouth
Though doom stared him in the face,
I'd drape my arms round his neck
Though death had hold of it,
I'd stretch beside him
Though his side were all bloody.

I hope you like these poems.

[Micky Fudge]

Well Hi there!

I am new here, so I still need to get used to everything hehe
I am particularly interested in Charles Dickens, he is my favourite author. If anyone knows about some interesting threads concerning him please let me know hehe :D
A lot of people say that Terry Pratchett is the Dickens of the 21st Century, do you think so?

Dickens is the Dickens of the 21st Century, Nightowlpip!

:cheers2:

[Dannyp03]

Hi, my hobies include not much other than watching the odd football game and playing basketball, oh and music, i love anything to do with music. my favourite book is The catcher in the rye. dont know why. and this page seems to be getting alot of view and replies, anyway of spreading the word of my short story? Dannyp03 'New York' is the story :)

[Ally]

Hi, my name is Ally. I love victorian novels, especially those by Dickens and Brontës sisters, I'm nice to be here!

[jillian tsai]

Hi, I'm new here.
I'm not a native English speaker, having great interest in reading literature,especially ancient works like The Iliad and The Odyssey, and I hope to improve my English and enrich my knowledge about literature from discussing and exchange ideas with other users here.

[Pauline135]

http://www.heritems.info/avatar4.jpgVery nice! Very useful!

[charlie79]

hey all,

my name is alan. i am bookaholic. i have been sober for two hours [since breakfast, when i finished penelope lively's how it all began].
can't believe i've never joined a book forum before.
my favourite authors would be ray carver, thomas hardy, michael connelly, and john macgahern.
i particularly love detective novels [a guilty pleasure] and a well-written short story.

[Dorian Doyle]

Hello, everyone! My name is Francisco, you may guess by my name that english is not my first language, and actually that's right. I am uruguayan, so I speak spanish. I am twenty years old, and I study literature. I want to learn from you, and express my views referring to some books, as well. I also would like to improve my english. I am fond of a lot of authors: Oscar Wilde, Homer, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Goethe, Sade, Dostoievsky, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Voltaire, and, frankly, I must be forgotting someone important to me also. I think I have no favourite author, I love too many of them. I like listening to music, especially gothic. I love Christopher Nolan's movies, especially Following and Memento. I hope to find this virtual space to be an interesting, delightful experience. Dark regards.

[Gullwings]

An initiation on a forum is always a mixed bag of feelings. You feel honored to be part of an intelligent organization of peoples, yet you feel a certain sense of nervousness to be starting from scratch. It is a hard emotion to put a finger on, but I do hope to contribute my thoughts and philosophy to this forum.

As this is an introductions forum, introductions are in order! :)

I am a student in middle school who loves to read. Don't underestimate that power of youth, as many adults have a jaded and irreversible pessimistic view on society and life. I am into motorsports, mainly, and like the noise and chaos which lifts you from the moody angst of philosophy and ideas. However, I do like to explore a philosophical side of myself. I like graphic design, as in typography and computer art, as well as computer science, reading (obviously), philosophy, psychology, and studying different views of human life. I am also a huge dog fan! :wink5:

I feel like in a society of deep thinkers and readers it is okay to be a homosexual. I'm gay and I really don't care what others think about that, as long as it doesn't limit my life in a way that is meaningful. I'm not out of middle school, and you can imagine the difficulty of being openly gay in middle school, especially being a boy. I think being shunned from some groups really was good in a way, because it made me think about the philosophical, hidden side of society and gave me some more thinking time. So in a sense, I'm glad I came out, because it gave me some time to think things over.

Being in 7th grade, I am probably vastly underread compared to some of you veterans on this forum. I frequently skip around books, but I've come up with a regime to sticking to one book. The book I'm reading right now is To Kill A Mockingbird. I've put Atlas Shrugged off until I'm finished with a couple others, because everyone knows how long it is. Again, I'm vastly underread, so here are some classic books I have read, and what I've thought about them...

1. 1984 (George Orwell)
My favorite book of all time. Undisputed king of dystopian science fiction, my favorite topic. It changed my outlook on life forever.

2. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Orwell occupies my top 2 on my list because of his fierce writing style, rather like mine! This is a great, stirring book as well.

3. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Had to read this book for school. I skipped 1/4 of it, so my information may be a little bit off, but I did love this book. I only skipped for the sake of getting it done in time. It was very good and symbolistic, from what I've read in it.

4. Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
Probably the most relaxing and down-to-earth book I've read in a long time. It is a very light, relaxing read, and is very beautiful in it's language, too.

5. The Catcher In the Rye (Salinger)
I need to come back to this one. I read it when I was 10, and didn't fully understand it. I need to come back to it, and maybe I'll get it.

6. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Not a huge fan of Steinbeck... dragged on forever. Just for the sake of knowing what happened at the end, I used SparkNotes! :wink5: It was extremely boring.



Of course, I've read many other books than that, but I like to focus on the classics. Some books I plan to read and discuss are, in no particular order...

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Brave New World
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Atlas Shrugged
5. Catch-22
6. The Great Gatsby
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. East of Eden
9. The Joy Luck Club
10. Slaughterhouse-Five
11. Things Fall Apart
12. A Clockwork Orange (if my parents will let me...)
13. War and Peace
14. Shakespeare's Works
15. Homer's Works
16. Beowulf
17. Grendel

Dystopian literature is my favorite genre. :wink5:

See you on the forums!

[Foxx69]

Hi everyone, i am Foxx and i just joined you. I do hope this here is gonna be a great place to be. Love you all!

[Lindy]

Hi everyone. New here. A great fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Herriot, and Damon Runyon to name but a few among many. I dare not leave out Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde from the many category, however. Presently I'm enjoying 'Just Enough Jeeves' ...but is there ever? Thankfully this tome is upwards of 700 pages so I anticipate many happy times enmeshed in prickly situations with the likes of Bertie Wooster, Bingo, Boko, Uncle Percy, the twins...and on we go.

Lindy

[Pensive]

Welcome all! So happy to have you here :)

[Trask]

My name's Jake and I just recently got into reading again. I am reading Franny and Zooey for school and am soon reading Hemingway's short stories and East of Eden

[BeachWriter98]

I've never posted here before, and don't know how it works. But hi.

[Purple_ink]

Hi!

I'm Ivy, 20 years old and from London :)

Stumbled across this forum whilst conducting some research for university assignments and thought I might as well join!

I'm doing an English Literature degree and the mass of primary texts I have to read is immense. I usually get through at least three texts a week and then there's all the secondary reading to do on top.

However, I love literature, so love my course! It's a shame that I don't get to squeeze in more 'leisure' reading since most of my time is used up with the reading for my course.

People always ask me who my favourite author is, and what my favourite book is....I honestly can't choose! I love exploring the different literary movements, from the ancient times right up until contemporary literature.

I'm hoping that I can share my knowledge with others, as well as learn from everyone here ^_^

[tomingram]

Hello. Literature student. Wasting time. Should be reading. Ah, but I'm a talker anyway.

[Adolescent09]

Welcome all! So happy to have you here :)

I too am happy to see more faces on LitNet :).

[RX Queen]

Hi everyone. I've never been on a forum before, so bear with me. I decided it might be nice to meet some new like-minded people. Since I finished my BA, I have been starved for book discussions and literary theories. I am hoping I will be welcomed and get a fix of the "good stuff." There's nothing like nerding out with a good book.

[Adolescent09]

There's nothing like nerding out with a good book.

You can say that again. :thumbs_up

[Kendall41]

Looks like this thread hasn't been used in a while, but what the hell, here goes.

I am an old guy; former trombone player; former hair-stylist; former business owner in Brazil; former marketing manager for a fortune 500 com; former management trainee in Mexico City; former VP of a Management Recruiting/Consulting firm in São Paulo; former Peace Corps Volunteer; currently retiree of a major US airline; 2008 Obama precinct chairman; and originally from a small, typically Southern town in East Texas.

[ellybelly]

Hello everyone,
I'm a newbie and to be honest I found this forum while looking for answers to my daughter's questions for her A level coursework. I've read most of the books she's studying but it was a long time ago. In light of this I've re-read a lot of novels I read in my youth as well as 'new' stuff like Kite Runner. It's such a difference to read these books for pleasure rather than analysing every word or nuance.....not very helpful from my daughter's point of view though.
The biographical stuff?......I'm in my 50's, four children ranging from late teens to thirties. I work in Sexual Health supporting those that are involved in sex work and I have a degree in Medieval and Modern History with History of Art. As a preference I like historical fiction but then get really annoyed when they ignore historical facts. I read the Da Vinci Code knowing that it would drive me mental and sure enough it did! As it is his 200th anniversary I am currently reading the works of Dickens and discovering some absolute gems that passed me by previously. I'm quite catholic in my tastes though, I will read practically anything from the classics to the trashiest of blockbusters as a bit of light relief. I'm also quite keen on Pratchett and Gaiman, anything with a bit of intelligence and humour I suppose.
Anyway folks I'm happy to be here - Ellybelly x

[Fionnuala2000]

well ah................. hi im fionnuala ( you probably guessed that ) um .. i just found out about this website thing, because i was looking for a place to publish my poems online. And this looks like alot of fun so i hope i get too know you guys better over time.

[zygama]

hello everyone.avid vintage book lover here.33 yrs old,still have no clear direction in life,but i do not let that hinder me.i work in a factory with few people who appreciate literature.i have 2 kids in whom i have instilled a love of reading.i have a knack for herbs and natural healing.my former roommate said it was because i was a shaman in a past life or had one in my lineage.currently i am enjoying one of my favorite books,the wonder clock,by howard pyle.lovely words,beautiful pctures.I highly recommend it.

[DTerryfied]

Hello everyone is this wonderous place of literature. I am a highschool student who wants to get into a writing career and i figure this is a great place to post my short stories and get feed back from the community. I'm not the best editor of my own work so please bare with me on my typos. so please everyone let me know what you think about them and i look forward to reading yours :)

[Bvmary]

Mainly, I like to read a variety of books, poems, essays. A favorite genre is surviver books. Latest one is "Even Silence has an End" by Ingrid Betancourt.

[chandy]

hello friends.

im chandy from Sri lanka. An archaeologist. wanna shere knowledge. if you like shere we can discuss. shere eBooks. (Archaeology and history)
plz write me.
[email protected]

chandy

[chandy]

Dear DTerryfied

i proud of you and your thinking. you should publish those. then many people will comment on you . then you can make it better.

chany

[hsheng06]

Hi, everybody, I'm a English-Chinese translator working in Beijing. It's my pleasure to join you.

[tylerdf]

Howdy.
Im Tyler.
I live in Kennesaw, Georgia.
I write sometimes.

[mattcruise]

Hello, I am Matthew. I am here to get some insight on a short story chapter I just wrote. First time writer, from Canada.

[jkelly]

Ok so just to say a big thanks to everyone who has put together the quizzes, they have been immensely useful to my investigation for my new library position at the English academy where I work. I needed to get the pupils into the library and show them the possibilities and facilities like the books on offer plus the use of the computers. we are now using the quizzes for web-quests and to introduce them to reading specially chosen books for the bookworm club, and as this year is the bi-centenary of Mr. Dickens... it´s working a sinch!

[Pensive]

Welcome all!


Ok so just to say a big thanks to everyone who has put together the quizzes, they have been immensely useful to my investigation for my new library position at the English academy where I work. I needed to get the pupils into the library and show them the possibilities and facilities like the books on offer plus the use of the computers. we are now using the quizzes for web-quests and to introduce them to reading specially chosen books for the bookworm club, and as this year is the bi-centenary of Mr. Dickens... it´s working a sinch!

It's nice to see you availing various useful forum features! :)
Enjoy your stay on board!

[omarlit]

hello everyone, my name is Omar from Palestine, I study English literature in Hebron University, and would love to communicate with all of you in order to develope my knowledge and get the help i need to answer my questions. I hope we can help each other.
thank you all the community of English Literature.
Omar Bader

[lakermech]

New to this forum/forums in general. I figured I would give it a try.

[abeltarver]

hello everyone, i just joined the community. it looks more interesting than facebook, where everyone seems so self-centered and inane. I hope i dont sound like a snob. Im not one. Since this is the day commonly referred to as Easter, i wish all of you a blesssed Resurrection Day.

[Espeon]

Hi everyone, this site looked very interesting and decided to join up! I usually don't join forums, I don't know the reason but forums make me feel a little intimidated but my favourite topic to talk about is books and there aren't many people I know who are into reading.
:D

[Miradei]

Hi everyone! I just finished my degree (Master's-English) and am currently looking for a job as a college professor with very little luck (*sigh*-gotta love the economy). Since I'm not in school anymore, and have yet to find a teaching position, I feel the intense need to discuss literature and grade/edit other people's work. So DTerryfied and mattcruise (or any other writers out there), if you need a reader, I'm your gal!

[Sophia21]

Hi everybody ! How are you doing ?

[Lulita]

Hello every one, I just love literature and glad to be here and share our knowledge and ideas.. ;)

[neilgee]

Hello Lulita, welcome to the forum

[victoriana]

Hi everyone! I'm just about to be a graduate student. Been studying English for the past four years in Scotland and have love, love, looooved it! I'm hoping to go back and do a Masters in a years time but in the meantime taking a year out to.. most likely to read some more. Or find a job, if I have to :P
I love all sorts of literature but I'm a particular fan of the Victorians and the Victorian Gothic, I've just started a blog about it in order to motivate myself to get some writing done! Thats what I'm supposed to be trying to be, a writer...
I have horrible taste in music, I love musicals and pop- the brasher and cheesier the better and I used to have a job in a theatre which suited me. I got to see Evita fourteen times once!
Thats about all without running on... Nice to meet everybody :D

[Varenne Rodin]

Hello, new people. Welcome! I hope you will all enjoy these forums as much as I have since I joined a little over a year ago. Have fun. Don't take anything too seriously. :D

[imatreky03]

...Um....Hello....

I am a senior in highschool although I do graduate in May. I am homeschooled. I love to sing and my biggest dream is to become a crime scene investigator. I have a 7 year old brother and I am learning how to play the guitar. We have a TV but we don't get network television, so my parents have bought TV shows from the 80s for us to watch and they are amazing. I love country music and I am obsessed with The Voice. I adore Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Kellie Pickler. My favorite TV shows are The A Team, Air Wolf, The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek, The Voice, and all the crime shows (Especially CSI:Las Vegas). Yep..... that's about it. Anything else you wanna know just holler.

Oh yeah.... I am also in LOVE with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice.

Love Always! Keep The Faith!

[Conner White]

Is the never ending sorrow always gowing to be a reminder that there is a towmarrow?

[Bobbycrane]

Hello everyone!

I am here to learn about creative writing, specifically fiction. I have lots of ideas but trouble sticking to plots and structuring my work. I hope to learn better techniques and hopefully receive constructive criticism on my work.

[PenelopeSamuel]

I am just finishing up my student teaching experience and stumbled across your site.

My name is Penney, and I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I am looking forward to making some friends, sharing ideas, and learning some stuff!

[Conner White]

Good meeting everyone im haveing truble figureing out how to post on here i've been trying for the last few days. I would really enjoy posting what i've writen but i need help figureing it out. Plz help would be mutch ablidged if someone did.


I am also a highschooler im a softmore but im (from what i've heard) good at writeing but it would be great to have replys from others who write. And I'm sorry if my grammer is sometimes off, and my spelling. I'm trying to fix it but first I wanna see if my writeings are good or not it would be great to acctualy get a reply by people who know what and how to write...

[Conner White]

(I'd also like to post a storie here just to hopefully get a reply on one soon.)

Twist, twist, twist. A spark emerges from the sticks as heat fills the area like an exeplosion. the room filling with light as though the sun had come in a blazeing moment to drownd the dark out of the sky. The life of the now blazeing light is waveing, twisting, thrusting, crashing, crushing. All sorts of movments only the wind able to change its course. This now liveing light grows wilde and viscious attacking all that come close with a chance of death. But this new life like all others have a new preadator. like the mouse infront of a snake that is being charged by an egal. One swoop its gone as the cold stream runs. The light trys to grow and flee from its new enemy but the stream is driveing to fast. CRASH! The light is hit and the stream starts emptying but the light lowers and lowers and lowers tell finaly its nothing but black pouder but small gusts of it flying off of it with a dark color leaveing nothing but the barren wast of what it has caused. the stream had run out after have of gotten its prey it sinks in and makes home....

[fp563]

Hi, I'm Fiona, a Lit student at York University. Nice to meet you all :)!

[RetsixArp]

Hello! Just found Lit. Netw. Forums! I'm about 1K yr old & am reading thru lotsa books I've had for eons. Nice to be here!

[PotomacWill]

Hi, I just joined the network and look forward to exchanging posts about books. Currently, I'm engaged in reading all of Dostoyesky's novels and short stories from a Kindle compendium of all his writing and loving it, as it stands in exotic contrast to my usual engagement with mathematics and computing. Well, that's enough for now, I suppose.

[wordshiner]

Hello, all-- I'm a veteran journalist, made a living writing for the past half-century. Newspapers, national trade magazines, hundreds of speeches, more than 200 live TV newscasts. Copywriting for some ads, produced a few marketing campaigns.
In recent years I've written two books, a rather fat novel about kids and WW II, which I hope will be shelved (mentally, if not physically) in Southern Humor, and a memoir set in Nassau and Cape Canaveral. Its keywords include John F. Kennedy, the Project Mercury astronauts, Raquel Welch, Jose Feliciano, a nymphomaniac and a hungry nine-foot hammerhead shark.
Both books have been vetted by pro editors. I'm in the process of re-reading and polishing both, for the umpteenth time. Isn't it amazing how you can always improve a piece, no matter how many times you've gone over it?
Hope to self-publish them this summer as POD and ebooks. I'm interested in hearing about experiences of other indie publishers.

[igc27]

Hello, I'm brand new here! So not quite sure what exactly I am doing!

[jordan321]

Hello everyone

[Rhonlynn]

Hi, I'm Rhonda. I live in Independence, MO. I am a nurse, but I don't work with patients, I work with their charts. I've never met the people who are in my company, but I've worked from home since 2008, and I travel.

I knit, and I read. I own a Nook color and a Kindle, but my most favorite author, (which is an odd obsession) is for the most part, not allowed on either devise. He is too good for that. I am 50 years old. I travel alot for my job. I just spent nearly a month in Albuquerque.

I didn't start reading Kerouac until I turned about 20. It was 1981...so it started. At 24, I went to New Orleans cause of that book. When I was 25 (I looked about 12), I made my mom and stepdad who took me to the mountains in Colorado, they had to stop in Denver so I could walk down Larimer street. I wasn't aware he was dead, until I decided to write him a fan letter, and glanced in the information part of the book. By that time, I had read almost everything he wrote.

This goes on and on, and now I travel with my work. When I went to Albuquerque, I had to go to Taos, cause of Kerouac. I had to go into Santa Fe. I missed Las cruces, but I saw the exit to it. I am leaving for San Antonio on Sunday. If I'm there for a week, I will certainly go to the college museum in Austin. Some of his work is there. I've not seen the original scroll yet. I will eventually....I heard my work is sending people to Massachusetts. ...granted I read alot of authors, but I have the book The Beat Atlas, and that's the one who's affected my life the most. Not just him, but mostly.

[Jezebeltrixxx]

I AM elemental and complex just like every one of us here.

[jessicafaust]

Hi, I'm Jessica and I'm new. ^_^

[halfmoon25]

Howdy ;)

[UndercoverRex]

Salutations, friends. My name is Evan. I love mathematics and literature; namely, number theory and minimalism. Also, I love depressing stories.

[ArmyButton]

I just signed up for this forum today, and I'm pretty excited. I use this site a lot for help with research on papers, and never once noticed that this was here. So Yay! Let's see, I'm about to graduate with an English degree, and I'm hoping to get into the Teach For America program that I've been hearing wonderful things about. I don't really have time for hobbies since I'm a full-time student and I work full time. I'm 27, about to turn 28 this year. I have no children and recently became engaged. :blush5:

[Mona_Marlow]

Hello fellow Lovers of Literature. My name is Mona Marlow - not really - but it's what we'll go with for now. I was directed to this site during my research and I found it too difficult to leave. This site seems like a great resource. I look forward to communicating with all of you in the future.

I am an amateur writer - meaning only that I have yet to publish my work. Currently - amoung other things - I am working on a collection of short stories that depict the romanticism of childhood innocence and the loss of said innocence. I am always looking for reading material that will expand my mind and vocabulary on this topic.

I am a collector of new words - as nothing is worth reading if it does not leave you with something you didn't have before. The walls around me are covered in "sticky notes" - filled with words I love. If you have a new word for me - I am waiting anxiously! :)

[floodedbasement]

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[crm1122]

I don't like to talk about myself.

There's nothing like a good book and a warm blanket in a thunderstorm.

Looking forward to being a part of the community.

[manicpanic]

Hello everyone, nice to see so many intelligent people excited to talk about literature.

I am a 23-year-old English MA student living in Canada. I like all kinds of books but I'm mainly interested in American Gothic and 19th and 20th century American detective fiction. Currently I'm working my way through the novels of Thomas Harris.

Right now I'm completing the final course for my degree and working part-time as a server until I start my PhD in the fall.

[Wannadance]

hello everyone. this is all new to me and i hope i'm introducing myself. my name is Wannadance and i'm mostly interested in history and biographies.

[constancesaltz]

Hi, this is Constance Saltz from United States. I am very happy to be a member of this forum

[IntravenousJava]

Hello all,

I have tried for more years than I care to remember to organize a discussion group for literature and philosophy. Alas, no noteable success. I don't know why I never thought to try online until now... At any rate, here I am, eager to meet any and all fellow afficionados of language and thought.

IntravenousJava

[pdfaulkner]

I am looking forward to sharing my passion for literature and rhetoric.

[koala13]

Hello :) I'm looking forward to discussing literature with you!!

[JadeWolf]

Hello all! I'm passing through to simply ask for some help, if you wish to, please refer to my topic in the Virginia Woolf subforum :D However the more I look around, the more I like it here, and if my desperate pleas are answered I may well stick around! :D Even the colour scheme is welcoming, and I too look forward to becoming a part of this community when I have the chance!

[fullfathom5]

Hi everybody.

[johnjulius73]

Hello everyone! I am John Julius from Madurai, Tamil Nadu in India. A longgggggggg way. I am very happy and thrilled to be a member of the forum. I a lecturer in the department of English in The American College in Madurai, India. It was founded by American missionaries in the late 1800's. It is one of the reputed colleges in whole of India. To be a part of such wonderful noble institution is great.

I joined the forum with the main aim to expand my knowledge over English literature by using the available resources and I enjoy communicating with people of same interest.

I hope to get acquainted with many friends on the forum.

[hocchoi]

I'm a newbie. I'm from Vietnam. Nice to meet you!

[handymandan]

Hi all! Its nice to try something new! I am very happy to have found this site and I am very interested in getting to know everyone here!

[happa]

Hey,
I am so very excited to have found this website a couple of hours ago. I was impressed with a blog I saw written by a teenager, so I had to check out this network. I realized that it was a community I could join which makes it all the better.
For those who care to know, I am a teenager. And as most of you know and have experienced, this is a pretty hectic time of life. I do a lot of thinking and think it will be good to put my thoughts into writing. As for hobbies, I do not really have a particular favorite, but I do love to listen to music and lie in the sun and tan. I am also involved in a lot of sports activities which keeps me pretty busy. I love to meet new people and learn about their life stories (in a non creepy way of course :) )
Neways, I would love to get feedback or messages about my future posts!
Thanks for taking the time to read this~

[otme0801]

Hello

I am 24 and a college student living in Minnesota. I love to read, it has always been a passion of mine. I look forward to getting to know many of you and sharing thoughts. :)

[Silas Thorne]

Welcome to everyone on this page! Enjoy your time here. :) I'm normally in the poetry zone but I might see you guys elsewhere. Bye now!

[marinifern]

Am very happy to join your forum and to get to know all you friends.

I too write contents to many blogs and sites and working as a part time writer too. I love read and writing. I don't have special reading but I love to read lot about new technology, romances, adventures etc. I love making my blogger bigger and bigger with information, tutorials, humor, technology etc, that is my hobby.
:wave:

[dtrip]

Hello this is Dimitris from Greece.
I'm a high school teacher with many interests, including spearfishing, solar energy, piano, rc airplanes, etc. I like short stories, I find them very fun to read and kind of easier to develop (I like a a moody plot with an interesting twist at the end).

In this forum I aim to mostly stay out of the way and just read others, since English is not my mother tongue. However I will try to create something in English, and you tell me what you think.

Its nice to be here,
Dimitris
Greece

[Sbright23]

Brand New Member

I'm looking to find people with whom I can discuss literature. I love classics, and I was hoping this would be a good place to rediscover my favorites. I have just graduated and am now on my way to graduate school where I plan to get a Masters in Anthropology. I hope I can find other members here that are free thinkers, slightly sarcastic, and love to read as much as I do.

[Alecia Stone]

Hey everyone. I'm Alecia Stone from the UK. I'm an author. My debut YA book is called Talisman Of El. I hope to write a feature film script one day, as I love movies. I also love to read - mostly young adult books.

Looking forward to dicussing books with you all :)

[pratyush]

Hi everyone, i am Pratyush,
i am perusing my master degree.:biggrin5:
i love to read as much as i can and also like to listen songs.
i am very happy to be a part of this forum. :party:
and i hope, here i ll get more new stuff to read. :) :and u ll help me to tell about new books like- philosophical, fiction, classical...etc :angel:

:thumbsup:

Thanks in Advance to All Of You :santasmil

[Tale Teller]

I am very new indeed to posting on line so I hope I clicked the right button. I am a storyteller, actress, educator all at the same time. That is to say some portion of all of my hats, including my music (vocal and instrumental), seem to be a part of all that I do. I live in Knoxville, TN and my name is Linda Upton Hill. I am a member of The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. of Knoxville. My son's are grown now and empty nest is still a little tricky. I have begun my studies to become a certified educator, so finding this site is a God send. I do not know if the way to ask a question for everyone to see and offer feedback is only here or by clicking the 'start a new thread' button. Someone please advise me on that point. Well, here I go--stepping off a bit-of-a personal cliff,:seeya: out of my comfort zone of familiar ways to join in. Thank you for the warmth and welcome I have found so far.

Sincerely,

Tale Teller :seeya

[poetryprincess]

With that asked, I am a poet and artist. I love to read, write, draw, study. I spend most of my time in a college classroom in persuit of my MSW with a minor in Philosophy. I am what my friends affectionately call a sophistocated lunatic. I love life and learning about life. I am currently working on my first novel and my only divorce.:brow:

[Jack of Hearts]

Welcome princess!





J

[emmawillyarms]

Stumbled across this lovely little community while trying to revise for my Modernism exam. I'm a third year English Lit student at Lancaster University, about to take my last exams ever. (Modernism on Friday, then American Lit post-1900 on Monday). Right this minute I'm trying to revise Lawrence's Women in Love, Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and Conrad's Lord Jim. Tomorrow I need to move onto some poetry as well.

I look forward to swapping ideas with you all!

[XavierAlex]

Hi all, I'm not sure where I am on the artist scale. I used to call myself a poet, until I finished school and had to write to make meager wages. And you can't put on Craigslist, Poet for Hire. So now I'm sort of a poet.

I do love to write it still and add it to music, film, and other mediums. I cannot do without it--which is probably my only criteria.

Anywho, I'm interested to see how the posts are and to join in the conversations.

Thanks for your time.

[Kemoze]

Hello everybody, It's nice that we are getting so many new forum members who share with us their precious views. There should be a place to introduce yourself and say hi; and this is it. :D

Come on and tell us about yourself. :D What are your hobbies? What are your favourite books? And also share with us everything else you would like to tell us about yourself.

Have a nice time browing the wonderful world of books and book-worms! :)
Hey... i like reading so much, i think i knew about this too late, i am now 23 years old and i have just read few books, but i like myself a big fan of stories, guys welcome me please i am just a down to earth guy, who would be way grateful if you could kindly tell me about best stories to read, i just finished the secret garden by Frances Burnnet '' this story brought the innocence back to me '' well its me kareem just registered.

[chuckgs]

Hi
I am Chuck, 29 yrs old business analyst and an amateur poet. I am looking forward to read posts about literature and posts my comments

[Elizabeth19]

Hello everyone, I’m glad to join this forum.
Reading books of different genres and analyzing them is a part of my profession. I’m a philologist, a teacher of languages and literature. I would love to discuss books and compare my points of view with the others.

[Anomandaris]

Hello I'm from Bulgaria and I'd like to post my own literature now

[Mirai]

Hello everyone!
I'm glad to see you:)

[blueskies]

Hi! (:

So, I've been surfing this site for quite a while and finally decided to join it. I have just graduated high school and am still not sure how I will spend the upcoming years. However, I'll probably won't study literature or languages and it will remain my love instead of career. But who knows, right? I hope this forum will help me to deepen my interest in classics and I'm also sure about that :) You can never get enough of them!

Nice to meet you all!

[Domer121]

Hi!

My name is Dominique! I joined, hard to believe 5 years ago! I used to post pretty regularly, however the past two years I haven't posted at all! Hoping to change that! Glad to be apart of LNF again!

[The Switch]

Heya, I'm Switch. I am a writer who likes to try different forums and styles of writing to find out what people like and will read. I am Southern, and have a lilt of southern mentality and accent in my writing. I write a lot of freestyle and off the cuff straight from brain to written word without thinking. This can oft earn either fans or foes. It's okay, I like opinions and do not profess to be professional at writing. It is just a joy for me to create characters and storylines. It is a release for me, as it is for most writers. I hope you will at least read my ramblings and comment so I can better at it.

[Heidy]

Hiii there...
My real name is Tommaso, i am eighteen.
I come from Italy, a really nice country, you should visit it :smilewinkgrin:
Sorry for my bad english, i do my best in order to improve it
My nickname is Heidy because i love one philosopher, Heidegger, and i am sure that Heidegger's closer friends called him heidy :)
Heidy is also a character of a cartoon, a small child that lives with his grandfather on one mountain among sheeps and nature. But i don't wanna make you bored with this story.
I decided to register myself here for two main reason:
1) I wanna learn english having fun
2) Next week i am having the last exam and i will leave school in order to apply at medicine university. But i am sad because i don't wanna leave philosphy, literature...at the beginning, five years ago when i started high school i hated it..but step by step i fell in love and now i can't imagine one life without it.
So i would like to keep reading books and comment these with you :)
I will start with "der prozess" by Kafka that is the last book i red.
I must admit that i have red it two times and i haven't understood it yet at all ahaha
it's a really hard book and i would like to know what do u think about it.

i think it's enough..
Nice to meet you all
:P

[Ad Astra]

Hi!
I used to be a member about 4 years ago but recently decided to rejoin the forums! I look forward to contributing and reading everyone's thoughts and opinions!

[KyJedi]

Hello everyone,
I just stumbled across this forum today while I was researching which Charles Dickens book I should read first. My lucky day! I am sure that I will be spending some of my spare time on here whenever I take a break from the latest book that I have my nose in. You see I don't have a "bucket list" but actually a "reading list". My goal is to read all of the greats of classic literature!
So anyway, it is nice to meet you all and now I must get back to Tolkien.

[Halder]

Hello, I'm Halder. I'm just an undergraduate student in college. I've liked writing small stories as a hobby for a long time, and I just thought it may be cool to be able to see what other people write and to get criticism and advice on how to write better. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading things that everybody writes and learning a lot. Nice to meet you!

[CasperMartinez]

Hey guys my name is Casper and I just joined the site. I'm really friendly and love to talk about basically everything. If you're interested, drop me a line.

[browkat]

I am new to this site and was happy to find it. :nod: It is hard to remember all of the poems I used to know and I am happy to be able to look them up.

I am retired:biggrin5: and do whatever I wish now. Yeah!!!
I do quilting, crochet and cross stitch. I have more than I can do as I have saved material and thread for years and the problem is where to begin. I have made two quilts and a table topper thus far and am doing counted cross stitch picture for my daughter. It is hard to see the holes in the cloth so it is going very slow.

I hope to be able to use this site a great deal.

[bIGwIRE]

Hello everyone,
I spent much of my youth consuming every book available. After that I was mostly concerned with the Bible and sacred texts, spending more than ten years with these as my primary focus, and working hard as a volunteer minister. Welding and steel fitting is my trade, and I have always considered myself more of an artisan than anything else.

Some of my pursuits include weightlifting, bow hunting, and backpacking.

To instill a love of reading in my two children is a personal goal of mine, and lately, the past year, I have been reading classic literature with renewed vigor myself.

Thank you all for having me.

-Joel-

[Mr. Mauve]

Hi everyone. It's been awhile since I've been a member of a forum, but I'm excited to join this vibrant conversation about my favorite thing - literature! I am a philosophy major at a small northeastern liberal arts college currently seriously considering switching to an English major (I would do it if it weren't for all the theory of, in my opinion, dubious philosophical worth I'd have to go through). My favorite kind of literature is epic poetry (especially the Odyssey), Romantic poetry, and especially Modernist prose. I've loved Virginia Woolf for a long time now and I've been inspired by A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man multiple times. I picked up Faulkner for the first time this summer and enjoyed him immensely even though I'm sure I barely understood him. I've started the monumental task of reading In Search of Lost Time (the Kilmartin translation) and I'm absolutely loving how poetic it is. Too bad I'll never speak French. Although I am minoring in German so I can hope to someday read Kafka in the original.

I'm very interested in the philosophy of art and the artistic process, even though I doubt if I'll ever be able to write something creative myself. As a fair warning, I suspect that I can be a little irritating in debates because I basically follow the Socratic method and, I know, no one likes a gadfly. I have two pet peeves that I'll always be willing to get into a debate over (and, admittedly, never admit that I'm wrong about): when people speak of artistic intent like it's a knowable entity and when people try to impose anything but subjective value judgments on works of art.

As for my name, mauve is my favorite color. It's very floral.

That's all for my introduction - I'm excited to get to know members of the forum!

[Roysson]

Hello to everyone who has come before me! I've already been on these sites and gave a little introduction, that was nearly a year ago and I didn't come back after! But, hopefully I will make more of a contribution now, as a more widely-read guy!

[wimloots]

Hi, I joined your site for other points of view on the way to look at some aspects of characters in some of the plays i get involved in.

[MARCE]

Hello everybody. My name is marcela. I am from panama. It is a pleasure to be here. I hope we can share many experiences.

English is my second language since spanish is my native one. I really enjoy reading and listening to music.

[RobertLatch]

Found this site today whilst looking for reference material. Always good to see active forums and talk with interesting and passionate people. Have bookmarked and hope to contribute to the community in the future.

[pdlapp]

Hi everyone! I'm new to this community... I'm hoping to learn new stuff about literature. Have a great day everyone!///