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Hello, my name is Matt, currently teaching ESL in China. Just came here to post my poetry and also to check out improvements on writing and of course comments on what YOU think.. Of course making friends is always a plus too!! My life's goal is to write a fantasy novel or epic poem. My poetry might be a little dark, so I'll keep the ones I post pretty tame.
Hello,
I'm Faa..I'm 25 and i study English literature..
I love reading and writing..my writings are mainly
in Arabic so maybe here I'l have the opportunity to
improve my English writing.
I love the idea of discussing literature and happy to join you all.
:seeya:
Hi everybody ,this web site is a real joy to me. I love reading and movies. Currently trying to analyse Mrs Dalloway !! I do need help and I am hoping to get some help !! my next book is again by Virginia Woolf To the lighthouse :)))
Hello to everyone! My name is Shera and I'm glad I found this site.
Hello everyone! I am from India and have been a member for a few months now, but what with work and other interruptions, haven't had the chance to post anything yet.
I am huge fan of PG Wodehouse and spy / detective fiction. Am currently on a classics-reading spree (if you can call half a dozen books a year a "spree"!) Well, I have been a voracious reader through school and college, but haven't had much time since I've started working.
My reading goal for this year is to complete at least 24 books (12 fiction and 12 non-fiction) from the hundreds of unread books I new own.
I hope that the Literature Network will provide just the right motivation for me to achieve this goal! Hope to have some interesting discussions here!
Cheers,
Brouhoho.
Hello!
I live in Mexico City. Although English is not my mother's tongue, I read books in this language.
As for Turgenev, do yourself a favor, drop whatever you are doing now (drop her on the matress) and buy "The Essential Turgenev", by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen. You will find "The Diary of a Superfluous Man", "A Nest of Gentry", "Rudin", "First Love" and, of course, "Fathers and Sons", plus an excellent introduction. Publisher is Northwester University Press.
Hello everyone,
I just registered today and I cannot wait to get involved with this forum. I am a student studying English Education and I have a passion for literature. My favorite author is Hemingway even though I have many other favorite authors. I absolutely love American Literature from the 20th century and I am also falling in love with British Literature. I don't have a favorite time period with British Literature because I love it all like Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc.
Some of my hobbies consist of reading, writing, studying, and working with children :)
Hi all, I'm so fresh in the house,& hope to contribute meaningfully as well as benefit bountifully. Love you all!
I just signed up, after finding this forum online, while searching for interesting sites that are discussing and sharing opinions about literature.
My name is Tina and I am German, though I read classics like Austen, Dickens etc. in English, since I prefer the original version.
I've been always a book worm, starting already when I could barely read a book by myself. I had the luck that even without having much money at home, we always had alot of books. Later I was a very regular visitor to all public libraries that I could reach with my bicycle. Now in my mid-thirties, I think my love for books can be considered hopeless. ;o)
I am looking forward, to read about your opinions and every now and then throwing in my own 2 cents.
Regards,
Tina
hello every body
hello
I am a new member (participant166)
thank you for every things offered by this forums
Hello :) I'm a third Language & Lit student. Love discussing books. Um, favourite author is a hard one, it depends what book I'm involved in at the time! I guess an all time favourite is Terry Pratchett as far as authors go, he never fails to entertain. My favourite book, is White Oleander by Janet Fitch, I adore the petry and emotion in that novel. But it's hard to say that's what defines my interests, because I honestly will read anything and enjoy a wide spectrum of authors, topics, writing styles etc. I'm South African, and after these last two years of studying I'm amazed at the home grown talent, I can only hope to follow in their footsteps some day. Not really sure what else to say, besides the fact that I am most certainly not on this forum to get anybody to do my "homework" for me. I'm a correspondence student, so my success depends entirely on my own skill and motivation, so no sneaky shortcuts for me. But I would love to get some perspectives on the books I'm doing, it's the only downside to correspondence, very little interaction. Anyway, that's me in a very thin nutshell :)
Ahoy!
I halted my search for a quality literary forum some time ago and stumbled upon this just recently! Essentially I'm just gawking for some ersatz interaction regarding special literary topics that happen to be outside the realm of my friends and peers. I've simply come to soak up the collective enlightenment and dig on some wordiness and opinions from what appears to be an active and erudite bunch.
Bon Voyage!
Hello, everyone!
My name is Oberon. I spent several years reading all the fantasy, scifi, mysteries, and thrillers I could get my hands on. I found that all of them were lacking something, however. So, I decided to stop moping about it and write my own! I've started out with a few, and I've decided to try a short story first. I hope all of you following this will look for it out soon! Feedback, is, of course, apperciated. Thank You.
Oberon.
Hello. :wave:
I wish to use the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas in my short film.
I need to know if this poem is in the Public Domain.
Can I use it in its entirety?
:smile5:
Plz reply ASAP.
Big warm hugs to everyone here!
I'm new to the forum, not to lit :)
I came across this forum as i was looking for critical opinions on one of the novels for my assignment ..without much ado, I registered and voila, here I am!
Hello I'm Tallfellow.
I've always wanted to be an author but I was never sure I was good enough. I'm hoping to improve my writing on here and read other people's brilliant work!
Much love
Greetings from the middle of...nowhere.
Some call it Missouri, I've got other, rather subjective terms for my isolated location at the time being.
Regardless, I'm over here because I enjoy writing, but do you know how hard it is to get someone to read your stuff?
I.E. You have something to write about, you had a nightmare, but it'd be a brilliant short story. So, you write it, but your friends/family read it and are upset that you have such negative thoughts inside your mind...or at least subconcious [by the way, my spelling is dead awful].
I.E. You have a brilliant, romantic, realistic dream. You've got to write about it, don't use names, but know it'd be smashing on paper. You have your significant other read it; they look at you, thinking they were the one in the dream [naturally you're terrified to tell them that it wasn't...].
Those kind of situations are what bring me to the table. I'm not a profound writer, professional poet, or linguistic legend.
I just want to feedback from other people.
-D-
Hello everyone.
I write poetry.
Here is a sample:
Poetry Unread
Poetry unread
Is dead,
Cacophony
In a coffin.
Richard J. Dates
I am a teacher, a reader, a writer. I get the sense that I am much, much older than the rest of you. I am 69, and retired from a career much of which was teaching literature at the post-secondary (university) level. Of course I love to read. I miss teaching.
Although I love to read good light stuff, what I know is classic literature in English, French, and Latin.
I write friction, essays, and some poetry. I live in the country and do some light farming.
If I can be of help to any of the younger folks here--and that's what I've done all my adult life--please let me know.
Marlowe
hello everyone
iam ahmed from egypt
glad to be here..
Hi, I’m Rianti. I’m supposed to be graduated from university this semester but unfortunately I’m not. I got stuck in my thesis proposal and it was rejected once. Now, I’m trying hard to make it (again). I am Indonesian and certainly English is not my first language. But, I was always interested to learn English language. It is the reason that now I am an undergraduate student majoring in English Literature. I hope I can improve better understanding in literary works by joining this forum and the most important one is to get my undergraduate degree as soon as possible. Of course, I would like to say many thanks to everyone here for sharing their ideas and thoughts. It means a lot. Thank you. I think that’s all for my introduction. Hope u don’t mind with my ‘beautiful’ English. =)
Was seeking information regarding what constitutes good writing when I came across this site. I wanted to send information to a friend who questioned what is considered good writing, and he felt no one should judge. Of course if we don't make judgements, then we would have trouble deciding what or who to spend our time with. I love what I consider literary fiction, and have eclectic taste, and have few friends who share my reading interests. One guide for me is reading book jackets, and any recommendation by authors that I already admire is a good heads up, although no guarantee. I seldom like best sellers. I listen to public radio, and Selected Shorts is valuable to me, and gives me a heads up on authors. Ditto on such collections as The Best American Short Stories and O'Henry Awards, Grant, Ploughshare, and The New Yorker. Some short-story writers have written good novels. I can't think of any author that is consistently excellent. A few authors I enjoy reading every few years. I'm going to assemble a list of my favorite books and authors and post here later. I also love The New Yorker's Fiction Podcast, with discussions before and after the readings. I'm in my late 60s and have been an avid reader since age 10, and of course tastes and interests change over the years. Although I've mostly talked here about short stories, a taste I developed in childhood when good fiction was published in popular magazines, I relish getting absorbed in a good novel, and am hungry for one right now and starting to panic that I haven't come across anything interesting lately. The most recent was "The Wrestling Season" by Sharon Shehee Stark.
I just wrote a long babble, and it didn't go through, so this is a test.
Okay, I'm new here, so hi. *waves*
I've been on forums before et al, but I do wonder about the particular copyright statement used with respect to publishing work here. I'm assuming that means the site is freely allowed to post (and keep posted) any work, provided it remains inside this web domain?
Hello there. I live in Scotland, I'm a retired schoolmaster. I have opinions, some weird, some dense, many uninteresting, but a gem here and there. Always inquisitive.
Hi, I must admit that this is the first forum that I have ever joined. Well, I guess to introduce myself . . . I am a recently minted Ph.D. now teaching in a small community college in the MidWest. For my doctorate, I focused on early modern literature and feminist theory. My love for the Renaissance started back during my first survey of renaissance literature course when I was an undergrad. The professor was amazing, taking a new historist approach by interweaving the social and cultural upheaval of the period with literature that came out of it. For me, it was never that I really enjoyed the aesthetic experience of reading literature. Rather I loved the complexity and subtly of the poetry, prose, and plays of the English Renaissance. Anyway, I spent my doctoral studies exmaining the writing of Francis Bacon, hence my handle, and rejection of the new science by John Donne, Andrew Marvell, John Wilmot. To make a long story short, I moved from the East coast, started teaching, and have a book coming out with Palgrave MacMillan based on my dissertation.
With a work that I just devoted nearly five years of my life over with now, I am bit lost, trying to find a new direction and possibly a new writing project. Lately, I have been reading postmodern criticism of science and some random modern fiction. I just finished reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - the Da Vinci Code for intelligent people.
My partner, who is incredibly active on another forum, suggest I get an "Internet life." So here I am. Can't wait to join in on the fun.
Hi all.
My name is Scribblette, and I'm a wordaholic :hurray:
Seriously, I cant think of anything I enjoy more than curling up with and getting lost in a good book. I've been prowling around this site for a while and finally decided to join in. Look forward to meeting many of you!
This happens to be one of the first forums I have ever joined and am willing to participate in. As the clichéd greeting goes, "Hi".
To someone who is very interested in literature, I myself am very ignorant with it. Not that I don't want to read, but I am just living in a world where dwelling in the company of books is not a very good option. I still need to deal with a lot of things-- especially keeping my mind productive, putting my mind at work, and learning to make money using my skills (since I feel clumsy when dealing with businesses and resources). But books have been in my company ever since I was a child, only that I am reluctant with embracing popular, classical, and canonical texts.
I am a Language and Literature major, undergraduate, and well, I am very weird. Weird not because I am eccentric or that I prefer unique things, but once again, it is because I am... just different. I don't easily embrace things, trust issues probably. My mind may not be as wacky and creative as most people are, but I am full of practical knowledge and insights that has proven useful in my survival.
The world outside is not a very warm place for minds like us to flourish. I may have not much of a social life, but the very important thing is that I still have not lost the knack for interacting with people. That skill, after all, is essential.
I am not a trivia-minded person, but I sure like insights and ideas. Hope that will help in this "discursive space"
Just discovered this forum today. I recently finished The Metamorphosis and wanted to know what other people thought of the novel, Googled it, and a response from this forum came up. Sounds like my kind of place. I'm currently reading A Tale of Two Cities and The Outline of History. I've always been an avid reader, but this year I've started reading a lot of the classics: 1984, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, Common Sense, Anthem and The Fountainhead. Still, I have always been drawn to the works of Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
I'm 32, married, and a recent graduate of UCF with a Master's in Public Administration who works at a nonprofit. I love reading and video gaming.
G’day fellow-readers,
I’m an old codger, so old that I can see the end of the perch I’m supposed to drop off.
I like to keep in touch with young minds and join in discussions of controversial topics, and I’m doing a short course on English Literature so that’s what I’m doing in this forum.
I think a forum like this is a good place to talk about things honestly, without having to regurgitate the opinions of your senior lecturer or spout what all the guides and notes say about something. If you can’t take Chaucer at any price you should be able to say so, though you should be at least prepared to listen to somebody who thinks C. is the bee’s knees.
(Why is it that everyone I’ve met who hated Chaucer was a female?)
I’ll never forget the time long ago when I wrote a poem and the head of the English department analysed it in front of a huge room full of students. He read things into it that I wouldn’t have dreamed of, but of course I wasn’t about to embarrass the bloke –and risk getting lower grades! So, when asked about an interpretation I tended to nod weakly in assent. Tell me there are other devout cowards out there.
At the moment I’m reading "Tom Jones" and finding Henry Fielding a lot funnier that I’d realised.
Until next time, hooroo from Oz.
Nobody I know reads like I do. My sister haas a phd and reads James Patterson!? Geez! i am planning to start Infinite Jest by David Stewart Wallawe this week (waiting on Amazon), anybody read it? Any thoughts? The reviews are sort of confusing. It appears to ba a book that is hard to read but you just can't stop reading it. Sounds like my kind of thing.
Pardon my typos! How Freudian.
Hello! I just joined this forum yesterday in search of some interesting discussion as a book-lover and as a college sophomore majoring in English. I'm 19 years old and I live in Florida. :)
Well, I love pretty much all genres of literature and film, but I am extremely picky about what I read (I have high standards). It's a little disappointing to me that we can't discuss politics and other topics that could be interesting because it might "offend" someone else. I don't believe in censorship, especially if what you have to say is important and contributes to intellectual discussion. Always question authority, as well as the people around you. It's not as if everything in politics is completely vulgar. xD
Anyway, I'm still looking forward to being a part of this great forum, and getting better grades as well! Have a nice day.
Hey everyone, I'm ViolentDelights - 20/f/London and working on a BA in English literature and creative writing. I've been using this site for a while but I've only just joined the forum - nice to meet you all :)
Hi, my name is Miss Meadowsweet (well, not really, but that's the username I chose). I am from the very northern part of Wisconsin where it is winter for nine months out of the year. There are many cons about living here, but one pro is that the long winters give me a lot of time to think about stories that need to be told, and then to write them, which is what I truly love doing.
I have written three novels. The first two were really just warm-ups, I suppose one could say, but the third I just recently finished, and I believe it may be truly worth getting published, which is what I'm working on at the moment. So basically, I love, love, love writing! And of course, to love writing, I had to first love reading.
I like to read a diverse range of books. I love a lot of the classics and want to read more of them, but I also love a lot of other genres. I get inspired by many things I read and do and see in life and this makes me want to write more. I especially love the outdoors and natural things, and I love digging my hands into the earth.
Right now I am a newspaper reporter for my small local newspaper. I like it, but what I really want to do is become a writer, not just a reporter of the facts. This fall I am hopefully going to be in Virginia going to school for my masters degree in English.
I am so glad to have found this forum and look forward to interacting with y'all!
Hey, Gwynhwyfar, just a quick question: I was wondering if your user-name comes from a book called "The Perilous Gard". There is a fairy-girl in that book named Gwynhfara (not exactly sure of the spelling). I was just wondering because it's one of my favorite books.
Hi everyone, I've just joined the forum today. My name isn't Aurora but Sleeping Beauty is my favourite Princess =) I'm from the Uk, Yorkshire =D I'm 21 and I'm in my third year of an English Literature degree. My favourite poet is Mr Keats.
hey there,
i'm new here and i am in high school. i'm having bit of a trouble with my extended essay topic and so i thought that i'd give this a try to see if i can benefit from this and help others on here also. i love to write and read if it suits my style. i love mystery and romance novels. i love to make new friends so hope to hear from anyone who reads this!
serendipitywym
Hi! I'm new. Just an everyday reader... especially classics.