Hi and welcome from me. You will enjoy your wanderings here, trust me! :)
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Hi and welcome from me. You will enjoy your wanderings here, trust me! :)
Hi everybody.
I just joined this forum and excited to read the discussions. Some of my favorite books are Sun Also Rises, 100 Years of Solitude, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jesus' Son, to name a few. I am about to start reading Brothers Karamazov this week.
Greetings! :)
Just want to say hi! and that I'm happy to be here!
Coincidentally, I've started the Brothers Karamazov and am finding it to
be quite interesting. In fact, I like Russian literature very much.
I still have sooo much to read. However, I'm happy to be a member here
so I can receive some insight on many great works; insight I would
never be able to receive on my own.
Take care folks and ciao for now! ;)
Hello all!
This is me in a nutshell: Pedro Querido, 19, Portugal, college, English and German Literature and Culture, like sport, talk, fool around, think.
Read: poetry (Pessoa, Rilke, Frost), prose (Eça, Kafka, Dickens), and plays (Beckett, Miller); portuguese, english and (some) german.
First impression? I love the atmosphere. Everyone seems to be very pleasant and helpful. I'm pleased to have joined this community!
Welcome to you, 80k, tomasso and kandaurov -- we are happy to see you and look forward to speaking with you soon! :)
Hello everyone,
My name's Susana, I'm 17 (18 in fifteen days, actually), born and living in Lisboa, Portugal.
At the moment I am really into portuguese poetry (to name a few: Fernando Pessoa, Nuno Júdice, António Ramos Rosa, Al Berto, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen).
Now, favourite books (the hardest part)... I'll just name some books which I had real pleasure reading, don't really like to pick "all time favourites" - at least not at my age, when I still have so much to read...
1984 - George Orwell
The Perfume - Patrick Süskind
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Process - Franz Kafka
(Short Stories and stuff)
Three Stories and a Reflection - Patrick Süskind
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
London - Virginia Woolf
:)
(Olá kandaurov!)
Hello :)
My name's Heike. I've already made a few posts here but I figured I should stop hiding in the shadows!
I'm not sure how much I stack up age-wise here (I'm 17). I'm going to New York University in the fall.
I am sure I share a passion with everyone here for reading. I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, and plan on starting Anna Karenina soon (Russian kick anyone?). I also love poetry--T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings are among my favorites. I can't possibly make a list of my favorite books though! You'll just have to get to know the millions of them one at a time ;]
Welcome Susana! Some great books you have there! :)
Welcome heike! Some fantastic taste you have there as well! Havent read Brothers Karamazov but i did LOVE Crime and Punishment
I loved the Brothers Karamazov. In fact, I would call it one of my favorite books...however there are many books on that list :p Welcome the forums anyway! I am just back on the forums after a long absence and it's good to be back. I'm hoping that I will be able to drop by more often now that I am not so busy. Again welcome to the forums and happy reading!;)
Hello everyone. I've finally gathered the courage to post here! :P Surprisingly, my real name is Laurette, I'm a 19 year old South African. I'm rather into English literature at the moment. All those 19th century authors, ya know? ;)
I can't for the life of me say who's my favourite author, or book. I'm pretty con-committal, I guess. I find it rather restrictive to have to decide on a favourite. (Can't even decide on a style...:rolleyes: ) Although, at the moment at least, my favourite poem is Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. There's such a wonderful energy to it!
Hey Khanyi! It's so good to see another South African here! Yay!
Welcome Laurette and Heike( I've seen you a couple times around:) )
And literaturerocks, you were here before me, but, welcome back. :lol:
Hello, My name is Theodore (the real one) lots of people call me dore, so I figured what's the most beautiful word in the English language?...Cellar door (ok, that's two words, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but humor me) or Cellar Dore.:idea:
So I am Cellar Dore, but you can call me Dore if you like.
Oh, hello up there, I just read Brothers Karamazov a couple months ago--great book.
I had to read a couple reviews/commentaries (that's actually how I came across this cite!) on it to really appreciate its true depth--especially on chapters like the Grand Inquisitor--I didn't realize some of the deeper metaphors until after I had read it.
See you all around.
Dore
Hello, Mr. Dore! Glad to have you here. :) That's a very interesting story you have there about your username.
I haven't read much of the Russian classics yet, I'm too much into Dickens and classic sci-fi right now! I have read Crime and Punishment, though. Excellent book. My dad says that the sci-fi classics aren't worth reading. Well a big >: p to him. :lol: This isn't the place to talk about that, however.
Anyways, welcome to all!
OOOO, Brothers!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 80k
Welcome!
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Originally Posted by Lily Adams
It's so interesting how many people have read Crime and Punishment and haven't read Brothers Karamazov, which is better, in my opinion; and in many others also.