Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hello,
I was excited to find a discussion of literature with such a passionate and involved group! I have recently started volunteering as a grantwriter for with a non-profit literary and arts magazine (same name as the handle if you're interested). I am thrilled with what they do and how they do it, but it has been difficult for me to see how it fits in a larger context since my training is in the sciences, my experience is in the military, and literature, poetry and art are all a bit foreign to me. I'm looking forward to broadening my horizons though!

I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" on a whim a while ago and was absolutely shocked at how captivating the story was. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are more thrilling and thought provoking books out there and I'm am more than content to lurk, learn, and add to my reading list :)

Nice to meet all of you! If you have any titles that need to go on my list, I'd love to hear them.

Dune is an amazing book! I read it in eighth grade for a school project and I don't think I have stopped reading science fiction since. I adore Jo Clayton (a very different style of writing your basic adventure story in the stars) and Spider Robinson (just brilliant), find Larry Niven to be a little methodical if a great idea man, and have recently started on Gene Wolfe's Long Sun Cycle and am really enjoying it.

Brilliant Ruminate! I must check out all of those writers. I've just finished college for the summer, so I've finally got some time to read books that I want to read, so I'm going to make it my mission to plough through as much S.F. as humanly possible.

I should get into science fiction again. I used to do nothing but read science fiction when I was a kid (younger than sixteen or so), but I kind of got out of that when I started reading "respectable" literature. I started raiding my dad's bookshelves, and he had Hemingway, Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Chekov, Gogol, and more modern stuff like Pynchon. And for a long time, as an adult, I pretty much stopped reading fiction and stuck to biography, history, popular science, and so on.

So who are the really good science fiction writers today?

Hi everyone
I love to read esp.literature, and military fiction and nonfiction

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I should get into science fiction again. I used to do nothing but read science fiction when I was a kid (younger than sixteen or so), but I kind of got out of that when I started reading "respectable" literature. I started raiding my dad's bookshelves, and he had Hemingway, Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Chekov, Gogol, and more modern stuff like Pynchon. And for a long time, as an adult, I pretty much stopped reading fiction and stuck to biography, history, popular science, and so on.

So who are the really good science fiction writers today?

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I've not read it, but I have this on my list to read:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kraken-China...5846693&sr=8-1

I saw a favourable review for it in The Guardian, and it sounds really interesting. Quite slipstream too. I haven't heard of the author before either.

Thom - The summer between high school and college I read, went to the beach and went running, and that was all I did. It was the best summer ever - enjoy it! And of course, all those excellent titles you come across you should share them here :) That Kraken book looks fabulous!

MinstrelBard - Just scanning some of the more recent titles on my shelves I'd pick Orson Scott Card (the Ender's Game series, prequels, sequels and spinoffs), Philip K. Dick, Alan Dean Foster. I can't think of the author of Snow Crash, but that is an excellent book as well. There's plenty out there I'd just pick an interesting looking cover and get started :)

Hi Wolf23 - You mentioned military novels... I'm going to leave this here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...-war-reporting In the course of the article he discusses some incredible books. I'd also add On Killing to that list, I don't remember seeing it in there

Welcome, Welcome to all you newly signed up LitNetters!
You'll surely find something here that will make you so glad you signed on!
Happy Reading/Writing!
~K♥zzo

Hello, I,m new. Great to be here. You guys sound nice...... I hope you're nice. Anyway, thanks for letting me say hello. I'm a little nervous,well I'm just rambling now.

Hi everyone,

I am here to post one of my poem and I am looking forward to everyone's comments and feedbacks. I love writing but I rarely do so. Because, I feel Iam not good at it. Please pass on your sincere comments so that I can improve. Thank you so much.

Here is the poem:
Title: Life's Lessons!

When did I forget, It was not easy;
When did I forget, It was not fun,
Thought I learned this long time when I hit the mountain and I -
I hurt my knees only to blame to be blind and novice.
But Here I am, Once again - stand like an innocent child;
Simple as she can think, Mountains are way back gone!
Makes her way through the darkest clouds, tired and shattered
Thought she just learned it last time when she cried her heart out,
And secretly places the note in her life's lesson book.
When did I forget, It was not easy;
When did I forget, It was not fun,
When did I forget, It was life and all these are its learnings
And with every passing day, I get better
And with every trip, I get stronger.

Greeting and Salutations!

Like all of you, I have a passion for literature, and for most genres of it. My specific interests wax and wan with the seasons it seems and right now I am largely reading nothing but poetry, and 20 century poets in particular.

Anyway, look forward to reading and participating in some interesting discussions!

Greetings...
I am a Tolstoy fan big time and Chekov too and Russian lit in general.....I love Dostoyevsky. Anyone out there with theories as to why Russians are such great natural-born writers????
Middling

Just when I believe I have learned the way to live, life changes and I m left the same as I started off…..... The more the things change, the more I m the same…..... It seems that my life is a constant irony of maturity and regression,..... but my perception of progress is based on the illusion that things out there are going to remain the same and that, at last, I have managed to gain a little control….. But there shall never be means to ends, only means…. And i see myself as means…. I m what I started with, and when it is all done with I shall be all that is left of me!

Theres a part of me that wants to write, a part of me that wants to theorize, a part that wants to teach, a part that want to live, a part that wants to love… To force myself into just a single role, to settle down to be just one thing in life, would kill off significant parts of me…...
rather, I recognize that I live now and only now, and I shall do what I want to do this moment and not what I had decided was the best for me yesterday.

Hello greetings to all. I hold a BA in English Lit and enjoy reading more than just about anything. I enjoy all types of lit really, my favorite authors in no order or grouped by genre: Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Robert Silverberg, Don DeLillo, Herman Melville, William Vollman, and my favorite poet Rainer Maria Rilke. I am glad to find somewhere to discuss literature.

Dears, pressed for time right now, but I like to start a friendly discussion about Jane Austen's ethnicity.

Greetings,
A friend referred me here and I will admit that in an effort to kick start my reading habit again I am hoping that this will motivate me to make the time to do exactly that. Primary interests have evolved but are currently Nonfiction, and after spending 15 years in Russia, Russian lit as well.

Hi,
I am a new member.
I hope to meet interesting and thinking people here, understand their point of views on various topics, understand life in this process and enjoy.
Life and its different perspectives fascinates me and I am interested in everything related to life and nature.
have a nice day.
Aryaa.

Hi!

My name is Tyler and I am new to writing. I have never shared my writings before and I am a little nervous. However, I want honest feedback and criticisms. I look forward to reading a lot of great things here! Thanks!

Well, hay! My name is Diana - as you can see I am from Croatia! I am a huge addict of literature - it's the biggest passion of mine! I am here to discus literature since I have rare opportunities to do so! Well - you will meet me already - I will just say hay for now and I hope to meet some of you trough threads at this forum :)

Hello:smile5:.
This is the place for somebody like me. I am looking forward to having a good time hanging around here:banana:.

Hi,
Nice to get this forum and found you all.. Hope will be become an active part of this community..

Hello - glad to have found this. Dickens is my favorite author.

Welcome all! :)

I enjoy posting on the internet. It is my hobby

Hello all,

I'm pleased to have found this site and look forward to many interesting discussions. I'd have to say that my three favorite books right now are Finnegans Wake, Tropic of Cancer, and Siddhartha, but I suppose this list is never finite. I am a writer, musician, director, and painter. I studied little in school, opted for a life of travel and squalor, and have never regretted a moment of it. For it is in life - the brutal living of it - that true meaning and mirth can be found.

Anyhoo; it's nice to meet you all.

I'm here to make friends who share my interest for life and litarature. I write short stories and read anything. :smilewinkgrin:

hi people. As my name denotes, I am a teacher of English. But I'm still young (just 22 years old!). I like reading literature and surfing the internet. I'm here to read some literary works and share in some discussions about literature.

I love to read and like you, Lie will read pretty much anything :smile5:not that i enjoy everything! i read:Yawn: but will give most things a try. Looking forward to chatting to people.

Howdy :)

I'm currently a college student living in a small but wonderful town. I enjoy reading when I have the leisure, walking barefoot through the grass at night, and black coffee. I've become rather fond of this website over the years--reading and coming to love various works that are available here and at my finger tips. I reckon it to be time I tipped my hat and said hello to my fellow literature lovers.

I could say I have a fetish for books, spent most of my life reading, so I'm very happy to find other people sharing the same passion.
I'm hoping to meet new people here, as well as discuss literature and hear other people's opinion on the topics I find interesting.
Oh, and my name is Lidija!:smilewinkgrin:

Hello everyone,
I am a new member here. This forum is simply terrific!

I'd like to discuss the works of Paul Bowles, who lived and wrote extensively about Tangier and Morocco. I'd like also to get some help about a German book I'm looking for; the book is titled Die Short Stories Von Paul Bowles: 1939-1990, by Elke Stracke-Elbina.

Thanks in advance

Just want to say Hello. Just joined forum.

A little about me:
I love to read classic and contemporary literary fiction, history, and theory, write, and analyze. I prefer books that tackle society with wit and satire: particularly -
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
The Pickwick Papers, Dickens
The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides
The Emperor’s Children, Messud
The Children’s Book, Byatt

I’ve recently become exceedingly interested in the theories, philosophies, and political/social movements of the late Victorian / early Modern periods. If anyone has any book suggestions, I’d love to hear.


Looking forward to talking books and meeting new “book” friends.

Hey I'm here to ask question.
I'm from Switzerland and my question would be about Patrick Suskind's Perfume.
Oh and maybe another about Chekhov's Short Stories :)
thanks xx

Hello.

I've been here a couple of months now but made no introduction when i signed up because I wasn't sure whether I would stick around, but now I've tested the water and found the temperature to be just to my liking!

What do I like reading? Here's a sample:

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov (just finished)
Crimethinc Collective - Days of War, Nights of Love (currently reading)
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf (next on the shelf)

An eclectic mix, I'm sure you'll agree ;)

hello everyone

im not really good at literature but i pretty sure im in love with tolstoy
i found out about tolstoy when im in highschool, i love to read and i read everything then that day i found one of tolstoy story, i become his fan, but we lack of tolstoy here, back then i had read two of his story, and had searching for another but i cant find any, then i found this site and could you imagine how big my smile to see complete of tolstoy here he he im excited.

english is my second language so forgive me if i have a lot gramatical error here with writing, but no problem with reading though he he

i happy to join this forum, and i cant wait to read all off stuff here : p

thank you

I am really a novice at blogging. This is the first time I've ever tried so I hope it goes well!

My name is Krissy. I live in the beautiful country of New Zealand with my husband, three children, two dogs, four cats and three chickens.

I came across this website by accident but, as an avid reader, thought it could steer me to some great reading. I have yet to try any of the forums. I promise myself that I will have a good look at home but I have to prise the kids off the computer first!

Any crash course for dummies would be appreciated in assisting me to find my way around and become more involved.

Hello Everyone, My name is as you can see Gennaro Gerrard and I am a budding writer in the field of Real-Life Fiction. This forum is simply awesome and hope it grooms me into a great writer.

Bonjour, j'habite en Bretagne en France et fais un essai. Bonne journée Besnard

Hi,

I'm Sascha and I'm a professional performer, teacher and director who loves reading books and plays :) This seemed like the perfect forum to discuss things literature and theatre related :)

Hi, I'm from the Netherlands. A half year ago I started reading Shakespeare and I really loved it! That's how I ended up here. I'm still in highschool so please keep in mind that my english won't be perfect :)

Hi, err, well, erm.

So hello then.

I was looking for references to the D.H. Lawrence piece called 'Self Pity', as I am using it in a presentation and wanted to ensure that I my information was not erroneous.

anyhow... This forum popped up and, after some reading, I decided that this may be a nice place to occasionally visit.

I don't know much about literature, although I am a professional Technical Author (which means I definitely don't know much about literature), but I do love to read and write, and enjoy communicating with like-minded folks.

Be well.

R.