Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hi jacky. Welcome to the forum! Wuthering Heights is one of my favourite novels. Right now, I am trying the youngest sister Anne's "Agnes Grey" which is also very good. Have you read any work of Anne or Charlotte?

Keep on posting. It is a great pleasure for me to have another member who is a fan of Wuthering heights.

Classics girl, Welcome to the forum. I hope that you will get your wishes and you will have a garden in not much time.

Hey Sam, Welcome abroad. I hope that you will have a nice time here.

Greetings, Literature Comrades (yeah, I'm lame...I know ^^). Thought I'd post here to say howdy, and introduce myself. I'm Aurelian (Harry Potter stickers for those who know why ^__^) Umm...I'm female, I live in Perth, Western Australia...ther's not much else you needa know, I guess...I'm sixteen, and found this place through my English Lit teacher (pretty much the rest of my lit class is here now too - go us!)

OK, toodley pips!

Hi Aurelian, Welcome to the forum! Keep on posting!

hello all you new-folk o the forum...I be yer host mr rorke, er Stanislaw the curst pirate. :D

at jackyyyy: Computer software engineering, cool :thumbs_up I be hopin to do something similar. :cool:

Thought I'd say Hello. I discovered this site about a week ago>

Hello, I am very temporarily the greeting commity, the usual folk are not in today, but if ye leave a message... :D

welcome o'berd mate!

Hulu,
I go by the name of Gringoire
This is the first time I have ever stumbled upon this site, and I think it is absolutely amazing!
I love literature, poetry, and language(s). I love the taste, and colour of words.
I love different forms of the arts.... hmm....
I love fantasy (unfortunately I rarely stumble across any fantasy fiction that are worth the effort, though.)
I am a Chrisitan- I serve Jesus Christ, my Lord and King! I absolutely love His creation, just to soak in the outdoors....and...
I appreciate recommendations!
Thanks!

Hi Gring, Welcome to the beloved Literature Network. Have a nice time here.

:wave: A Merry Welcome to:

Classics Girl--Glad to have you here. I like cooking and scrapbooking too, when I have the time.

Aurelian--Greetings to you too Literature Comrade. Hope you and the rest of your class have fun here.

ajaxson--Hi there. Hope you enjoy the forums.

Gringoire--I think words are tasty too. ;) Welcome aboard.

'ello. I'm new...My name's Jenny.
How are you all? :D

Welcome to all the newbies. So many. I can't keep up.

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Hi Gring, Welcome to the beloved Literature Network. Have a nice time here.

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Thank you very much!
I will!

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:wave: A Merry Welcome to:

Classics Girl--Glad to have you here. I like cooking and scrapbooking too, when I have the time.

Aurelian--Greetings to you too Literature Comrade. Hope you and the rest of your class have fun here.

ajaxson--Hi there. Hope you enjoy the forums.

Gringoire--I think words are tasty too. ;) Welcome aboard.

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Aye-aye cap'n! Thank you for the hearty welcome!
I can't believe that I have never come across this site before!


Thank you, Virgil. Thanks for the welcome. :wave:

And welcome to you too, Jenny!
Are you from the north island or south?

Thanks again, Pensive, for starting up this thread! :D

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:wave: A Merry Welcome to:

Classics Girl--Glad to have you here. I like cooking and scrapbooking too, when I have the time.

Aurelian--Greetings to you too Literature Comrade. Hope you and the rest of your class have fun here.

ajaxson--Hi there. Hope you enjoy the forums.

Gringoire--I think words are tasty too. ;) Welcome aboard.

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Thank you very muchly ^__^ Thanks for makin' me feel welcome, oh Captain my Captain

Wow--forum membership has really been hoppin' lately!

Welcome all!!!

I guess it's time for me to make a somewhat belated apperarence in this thread. I've been soooo busy reading and posting (feeling a bit like a kid in a candy store).

I found this place a while back and joined immediately. It is exactly what I've been loking for :thumbs_up :nod: I like it here, and several of you have made me feel very welcome.

Me? A 46 yo quality engineer with a life long interest in literature and languages (among many other things. I could also mention Quality, Environment, Creativity, History, Travel, Photography, Dancing, Computers and bags of other amusing pastimes...)

I'm also old enough to be a "has been" in several ways: Glider pilot, weight lifter, marathon runner...

In short, I try to keep life interesting, and generally succeed in that ambition. Life is brief, and should be enjoyed. There will be no reruns, you know...

/Claes

Hi Claes, You are right that life should be enjoyed and we should let other's enjoy as well.

We are glad to have you in our community.

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Thank you m'dear... and there you go proving my point again. :nod: You lot really know how to make us newbies feel welcome. :thumbs_up

/Claes

Welcome Claes. You already know I'm an engineer, although not a Quality engineer. Depending on what stage of development something is in, we work fairly close with our Q.E. department. In fact some of my vociferous arguments have come with Quality engineers :D , but also learned good engineering disciplines from them :nod: . Some of your other activities are pretty interesting too.

Greetings:

I've been reading books by Jules Verne. My family and I finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea last year, I went on to read Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island by myself -- and am now about a third of the way through Five Weeks in a Balloon.

These are very good pieces of fiction. I like their enthusiasm for science and discovery. They have a downside too, in that they are period pieces and have smatterings of racism and chavinism that modern audiences may find distasteful.

I'm interested in trying some of the science containted, and, maybe, editing a new online resource with experiments a reader could try.

Example:

In 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' -- they decompose water into Hydrogen and Oxygen by electricity. There's a nifty little experiment you can make with a 9v battery -- tape a paper clip to each post and stick in a class of water. Hydrogen will form on one paperclip and oxygen on the other. It works best if you add a couple drops of dish soap to the water. You can see the gas better as it makes it's way to the surface. Also, if you take a match to the bubbles you may be able to ignite some of the gas. :)

Hi Mike Bee, welcome to the forum! I have got 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at home. I will try to start reading it as soon as possible.

Ok, I'm a graduate student in NYU (doing my masters in math), but I'm originally from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Among my favorite books are "Brothers Karamazov", "Idiot" and "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, "Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov, "One hundred years of solitude" by Markes, "Foucault’s Pendulum" by Eco.

Currently I'm reading mostly history books. I usually choose some topic and try to read a bunch of books about it. Now I'm interested in the medieval spanish history.

My hobbies are history, soccer(totally obsessed with it) and tennis.

Best,

Boris

Cool. Welcome to Mike and Boris. I'm amazed how many non literature people are attracted to this network. You can read a little about me in my profile and intro on page one of this thread. As you'll see I too have a science background, actually engineering.

Hello Boris239 and welcome.

I couldn't help but to notice that name "Boris", which is to me a dear name in remembering Saints Boris and Gleb. Also, your reading process reminds me of my reading at many times in my life.

Even at work, while away from books, it is as if a secretary organizes files of things read in the past, then suddenly I see convergences in things I had not directly read.

Do you ever experience that?

Hi. I tried posting a few minutes ago, but something didn't get through so now I have to start over...

I've been an avid reader for as long as I can remember, and now I'm pursuing a degree in literature. My mother's aspiring to become a children's author, and her efforts are inspiring me to take my own writing more seriously. I like recording my dreams, and making short stories out of them.

I joined here particularly to ask around about some obscure old books I've found, as well as some I can't find anywhere.

Yomiko,
that is an excellent idea: recording dreams as the basis of short stories!

Thanks! It's also very productive for me, because I rarely have dreams that are completely random. Usually, my dreams have specific plots, with random objects, or a few random moments in an otherwise cohesive story.

WELCOME ALL OF U......Yomiko, Boris329, Mike Bee, Claes......Welcome all! Look forward to interacting with you all!!! Happy Posting!!!!!

Welcome Yomiko and Boris! Have a lovely time here!

hey people, i me new here and this will help me to know all of you. i am doing my GCSEs and i have a feeling i will fail (looooool).........well not really, i have a good sense of humour (people say) and i can never be angry ( people say) i can be very hyper and jolly and i can never be misrable when i am around my freinds. i love to search on the net and my best actor is keanu reeves ( who likes him too?). i come frtom the middle east but lived all my life in london.

Keanu Reeves?? What for???

Glad to meet you all, my name is Mario, 37 years old and I am from a little island between France and Italy. It's really nice to find a forum full of people interested in Literature, at least I hope to find out no more 30-40 years old men posting about football or videogames ;)

Azaril

Hello everybody, I'm just about to leave government service where I was a Persian linguist. I hope to get back to the world of my favorite subject, Anthropology, specifically Linguistic Anthropology, soon.

Of course I read a lot, everything from dry old academic stuff to pulp fiction (preferably from the thirties), and I can't pass up a seemingly useless grammar (the crowning glory of my book collection and my most useless grammar is 'Let's Say it in Fijian'). I should stop now before I say anything else too strange, I imagine the my hobbies I have already revealed tell you more about me than you probably ever wanted to know in one post.

Hi Azaril, Welcome to the forum! We have people of all age group here. Your name "Mario" reminds me of "Super Mario" game.

Sheyk Abdullah, Welcome abroad!

Welcome SheykAbdullah,
your interest in linguistic anthropology is one of my greatest interests as well.

Please hurry on over to the How Many Languages Do You Speak? thread.

Mililalil XXIV

hi everybody. i am Phuong, i come from vietnam. i love literature so i visit this website. i am glad to make friend with everybody. i am not good at English so i will be very happy if everybody help me
As for me i like Literature very much. i am a literature faculty student. i also like music, history, and other art,....
i want to say hello to all

hi everybody. i am Phuong, i come from Vietnam. i love literature so i visit this website. i am glad to make friend with everybody. i am not good at English so i will be very happy if everybody help me
As for me i like Literature very much. i am a literature faculty student. i also like music, history, and other art,....
i want to say hello to all

Hi phuong, Welcome to the forum! I will not claim that my english is wonderful as well.

You should read more and more novels to make your English even better.

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i am not good at English so i will be very happy if everybody help me

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Nothing to worry about. Even though English is used here, the majority of the posters (including myself) are not native english speakers: See the thread Is English your first language?.

/Claes

Hi ll, im new to this site, i followed another link here because of the Poetry.com scam.
yeah ive been there, done that.
But what amazes me is that this site informes people about it but it also has an advertisment for then as well,,,dont get it???