Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hello all,

New to this site, found through google. I've decided I want to try and become a writer. I have no real idea how yet but I thought I'd give it a go. I have been toying with the idea for many years and have had a few ideas but never put pen to paper. I don't think I've ever had focus until now.

I've created a website to blog my progress, which is not at lot at this moment in time but keep watching and hopefully it will grow. The blog is only a week or so old and mostly has blog entries about the new web development skills I'm having to get to grips with.

To really kick start my new path in life I thought I better start writing, hence my google search bringing me here.

Shameless plug alert: please visit/bookmark my site if you're interested in how I get on - dare2write.com

I'm Jordan. I'm from Alabama. I'm a senior in high school. I love fantasy. The Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings series are incredible :). I'm also a musician. I'm self-taught on piano and I marched drums in high school for 3 years. I sing all the time though I'm bad at it haha.

Hello. My name's Tony. I've been perusing this site periodically over the past couple weeks and decided to sign up. I like to read all kinds of fiction but recently I've been on a literature kick. I haven't been reading as much as I like though and this place will hopefully inspire me to read more.

Hi. Very excited to have found this site. Am currently on a Steinbeck marathon. Greatest American author? Me thinks so.
Looking forward to some spirited discussions.

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Hi everyone, my name is Paul and I thought it should be time for me to officially post my introduction. I live on a small island in Hawaii and find it hard to talk about literature with anybody, so I hope to be more involved with this great forum. I look forward to getting to know you guys and hearing your views on books you've read.

My name is Karl. I live...I breathe...I read...I see...I write............I love..........

nothing else matters

Hi all!
My name is Nick, I'm bookworm from Russia, student of the Philological Faculty.
I came to discuss books and to find like-minded persons from other countries )

Hello everybody i just register as new member of this Literary Network,hope we call have fruitful interactions.

Hello to everyone
Let's all smile
And have fun
And have our time
All worthwhile.

francis:wave:

Hello, everyone!
My name's Henrique. I come from Brazil and I just love literature, especially classic literature and brazilian literature.
I'm looking forward to learn a lot here and also contribute with something if I can :nod:.
I'm currently halfway through the Iliad in a wonderful translation to Portuguese by Haroldo de Campos.
See you guys!

No, I'm not trying to be funny. Weirdly enough, that's how I greet most of my friends (the ones who know I'm not as crazy as I seem). Well anyway, let's get on with the introductions shall we...

When we were in college, we had to take an aptitude test to determine exactly what field we would do best in &, ironically enough, I got advertising...& law, but that's irrelevant. Ironic because I think those in the field have to sell their souls to do well & I'm just not the type that can lie with a straight face or sell my own Grandmother to get ahead. So, I settled for trying to improve the quality of the online content we are bombarded with everyday. And (not blowing my own trumpet here on anything) I'm pretty good at what I do although, of late, I've become more & more disinterested in the repetitive rubbish I have to keep editing.

I have a Post Grad in Media & have been working for the past 2 years...so, not a lot of time. I've always been a bit obsessive about books but haven't been able to read anything of note in the last couple of years. I suppose that when you get so bogged down with work that you want to scream at the top of your lungs, you tend to read flakier literature rather than anything too complex. I feel all this flakiness has been slowly bringing down my IQ, which of course does not make me a happy camper. So, I'm doing an M.A. in Literature & working at the same time. Not easy, considering work hours & travel time but I hope I can make it work. I want to be an Editor at a publishing firm before I have one foot in the grave. And I was hoping to ask all you lovely people here to help get me there because I don't know a thing about literature really. Just stumbling along in the dark, hoping for some guidance. Oh, and I'm a quick learner **winks & grins**

Cheerio,
Susan.

New to this forum,

I was searching for free online literature material when I stumbled upon this place which, after spending a whole four hours perusing through, I think is the most awesome site in that field other than Gutenberg.org whose layout is pretty embryonic compared to this one in terms of ease in navigation. I am male, 18 years of age from Kenya, Africa. I chose 'mgemah' (spelled correctly without the 'h') as a user name which means <i> 'one who taps Palm wine' </i> in Kiswahili because that is exactly what I intend to do in this place (the wine here being knowledge, of course). I anticipate to learn a lot from my future interactions (with you) in this forum and also that maybe others will get to learn a thing or two from me too. The other reason why I decided to join is that lately, precisely for the past five months, I have developed a serious liking for literature and writing and I think it would do me some good if I could have some constructive criticisms of my "pieces", which I intend commence posting soon, by people who share the same passion as me.


I look foward to enjoying my stay here.

Thank-you.

whats up f**kers?

Is there anyone who can relate to the fact that a writer's work is not getting any or enough exposure to publishers?

Hello!!! I have always loved Mark Twain (although I have not read any of his books to completion:). Besides the fact that I think he is a FOX, I felt a kindred-spirit in him and felt better about myself when I realized he was able to thrive while having a brain like mine. Twain said, "When you appeal to my head, I don't feel it; but when you appeal to my heart, I do feel it."

While I had not yet been diagnosed with ADD, I read a little out of one of his books where he was describing a scene in life: "......." & this is what lead me to this site!!!!!!!!

I need to know what book I got that "....." out of!!! It goes something like this: (I'm paraphrasing:) "re. a perfectly timed schedule of morning ritual where the slightest mishap could throw off his whole day...." ie. two minutes to shave, etc.

I am ellenc and a newcomer - I am very much older than most of the other members, but I intend to be just as enthusuiastic! CANT SPELL!
WOULD like to express my thanks to the person who put that wonderful piece from
Ian Watt on the connection between Conrad"s Heart of Darkness and Tacitus - will take
me ages to digest but I appreciate it so much . Thank you

Hello everyone!

I am yara the princess from Egypt :) . I am a postgraduate student, specialist in English Literature . I feel so happy to be with you all here.

HI!! My name is Hannah, and i also chanced upon this site a few days ago when i was trying to do a little research on Homer's Odyssey (I'm studying the poem this semester). I love literature so much and i'm glad i found this site. I hope i enjoy it here.

Hello friends. . This is Jogan. . And i am a student of English literature . .actually i have compleTed my post graduation a few months ago But i wont mind calling myself a Student. .as we all know Literature is a vast field and so whatever we are we will always be the students of literature. .

So I spent some time scouring the world wide web for a decent online book forum and I found you guy's!!!

Ever since I was about 13 years old I was exposed to the Sci-Fi world and got sucked into it completely. The first book I can remember reading and being moved in some way or another was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

I look forward to learning and contributing to the forum!

~Jeff

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Einstein

hello everyone :)

Greetings everyone, Mr Peter Donnelly here. I've just joined and I'm looking forward to participating in many literary discussions.

Hi everyone i'm new here.

My username is just fake so my name is paon which pronounced as "par-own".

English isn't my first language so i'm learning to become a better English user.
I only wrote stories that involves fighting and those superpowers and stuffs like that. I do have an ambition to become a writer but i know my writing isn't good enough so i want to share my art. I want to learn from mistakes.

This is my wish to everyone, i hope if there's anybody read my stories, tell me if there's anything wrong or grammatical mistakes. :biggrin5: :coolgleamA:

hi all and sundry.
My name is Chris and i live in Hampshire England ,i,ve been retired from engineering for 4 yrs now ,and thought i would try to find something to do ,i play scrabble alot worldwide and have an interest in woodwork.all the children are grown up and married WHOOPIE ,so i seem to have lots of tome on my hands ,anyway hello to you all and thank you for letting me join your forum, chris:banana::banana::banana::banana:

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon this forum when i was looking for an analysis of he poem "Anecdotes for fathers" by William Wordsworth. And I am really glad I did. :)

I can very much relate to "Virgil's" Intro. I just finished my engineering and I am going to start working in an IT company Tata Consultancy Sevices as software engineer next month onwards. But my true love has always been and will always be literature. I read a lot, classics as well as contemporary, prose as well as poetry.
I was also torn between doing what my parents expected of me and what i really truly wanted. In the end I decided that my dad's logic of having a professional degree made sense and so I chose engineering and here I am. I painfully pulled myself through the final year and I have been wondering if it was the right choice. Anyway I intend to do something about my passion for literature. And Virgil, You inspired me.
So like I said I love reading. My last classic was Shakespeare's "Taming of the shrew" which was very difficult to get in print so I had to get an e-book. That brings me to "I hate ebooks!". I think there is nothing better than the feel of a really good hard cover book. :D My last book as such was "Chanakya's Chant" by an Indian author Ashwin Sanghi.
Currently I am reading "Lyrical Ballads and other poems" a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both of them are my favourite poets. I am still a beginner and sometimes I have problems Inferring the hidden meanings of Poems and thats why I am really glad I found this forum.
I am also a self-taught poet thus the pseudonym, Dpettypoetess.:)
I hope I will be able to understand better the world of literature in which I wish to find a place for myself someday and also be able to contribute as per my capability.

happy everyday.

Aiya everyone. I'm just a regular student who loves to read. Fantasy and Science fiction are my realms of interest, but I'm open to other genres as well. I'm also very interested in the Quenya language. I hope to get to know people here and become part of the community!

Hello everyone,
I stumbled upon this forum while looking for something about 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. I'm not really a very bright student but I love to read books and play chess. I am a loner so books are my best friends. I'm currently reading 'The Life Of Pi' by Yann Martel. I don't know what I'm going to study after finishing High School. I am just "Floating straight obedient to the stream" aimlessly. I hope I'll make friends here and become a part of the community. I am 18 so I wish to meet other teens here.

This site was near the top of the page when I googled "literature forums." Most people in my regular walk of life don't read much, or don't see it as more than casual entertainment. I started to wonder if I wasn't stunting myself, somehow, by not living in a place where it really mattered. It seems unlikely that I'll find an atmosphere like the one I want in my regular life. I've got an English BA; I'm unemployed; I make myself read history but I don't like to. Lately I've gotten really into Iris Murdoch.

A little about me:

I think Moby Dick is hilarious and laugh out loud everytime I read it. My wife laughs at me for laughing out loud at Moby Dick.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are great, but so is Bulgakov. Mark Twain very well may be god. Margaret Atwood is a lion of American literature. Jane Smiley weaves beautiful stories. Kurt Vonnegut has the human raced pegged. Julian Barnes's prose is fantastic. Herta Müller's novels are absolute poetry on page. Jasper Fforde's imagination and wit are off the charts. China Mieville's incredible. Catch 22 is worth two or three readings. Lewis Carroll was a madman, but a brilliant one. I cannot read Kafka's Trial before bed. The Martian Chronicles is better than Fahrenheit 451. Tom Robbins makes me think by making me laugh.

I like to write about my black lab/mutt Tico and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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I'm an attorney by training and by necessity, but an author by habit. My novel The Valley of Fire is a dark, humorous look at our inability to understand ourselves.

Cheers,
Brett Cottrell

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My name is Paul and I've been reading and writing literature for as lon as I can remember.
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I hope you enjoy. And please feel free to comment.

I didn't know a url wasn't allowed. Heres my first chapter

Share my writing

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I want to share my writing with as many people as possible. Therefore I will publish my latest work as its written. Here is the first instalment. All comments, positive or negative, will be gratefully received.


The Birkeesh dilemma; dreams revisited.

A story that must be told.

Chapter 1

She stopped, swayed, listening for some obscure justification. Was this real, or a dream mocking her complacency. She didn't know, or even care! Only one thought entered her mind, the thought that she had avoided for too long. She feared that step, that ignomous step, not because it might be her last, but because it could end her journey. "Damn , damn damn!, her senses railed, fearing the vortex of despondency. Could one have ever imagined it would be so, she pondered, returning briefly to her time with the others. "What would they do"? "What would they say"? "Did they ever really care?". The vortex grew.



Rain lashed, gusts pillaging earth's autumn bounty. Cold, cold, cold, and heavy, like a pregnant swift. A capricious love indeed. Her mind wandered ,drifting to time within time, then time without time, then back. It was nice. If only Beckett had loved her as she had loved him. Did it have to be so? Perhaps. But it didn't really matter anymore. She had made her bed. Now she would sleep!

hello there... i'm as fresh as a dried fish here..haha..i've just registered really...nice to be here...i'm a filipino working in korea as a missionary-teacher...i'm a graduate of BSE-english but i haven't taken the board exam yet..they say it's hard..and since i graduated 4 years ago,i need to refresh my mind with the english things...hope this site could help me...

I savor the Shakespearean soliloquies of life with wonderment and awe. I have a passion for the subtle and often overlooked spiritual realm. I find inspiration in reflecting, journaling, listening to audio books and reading the written word.

Some of my favorite writers are Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen and Victor Hugo. Their narratives have helped me see the sub-currents of human interactions as well as self study. You can say they have also been my mentors in helping me to question convention, the media and consumerism.

I hope to discover one or two kindred spirits here.

Hi guys.

Though I studied an English and Media studies joint degree 8 years ago, I never read again until the last 6 months. I'm an EFL teacher in Madrid, I DJ in my spare time and I decided recently that if I could love cinema and music, why not lit too? So I've been tearing through as much classics as I can (fortunately I shipped a load of my books from Uni over here as well as my records!).

So far I've read:

Emma (Jane Austen)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Ulysses (James Joyce)

and I'm now on Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

I'm far from the most widely read dude but the plan is to change this and maybe teach lit back in the UK once I've read enough (I've got a long way to go I think). Really enjoying all this so far, especially as I can read them for fun without a course pressuring me to study and analyse them intensively.

I've checked out the brilliant discussions going on on the said titles and I think this forum's the place to be.

Much love!

Hello, my name is mysrose. It 's meaning is a mysterious rose. I come from far east. And I' m a descendant of the dragon.

Very glad to come to this literature forums. Hope to be your sincere friend. Thanks, everyone.

Eye Am Ona Mishon. Reading is one of my love to do's. I came here wanting to search for a book I read some time ago. can't remember the title or author. It is about a man with two sons. He sets up a boxing match and the winner would be trained in the phamaceutical business and the other would go away. Along the way a woman Maggie (Margret Rhodes ) enters the picture. She is trained and educated in the business by Henry's father. Later on they , Henry and Maggie become atrracted to each other but he marries a more suitable woman whose family owns another phamaceutical company and they marry and merge the two. She becomes his mistress. The wife's mother's name is Evelyn I believe. The brother that lost the fight wants to detstroy the brother that won. He finds a woman who looks like Maggie and goes to work perverting his life and those of the daughter (his niece) Henry has now had by the homely wife he was forced to marry through the arrangement of Henry's father and the woman's mother Evelyn. Maggie Rhodes becomes a big time land developer in what is now Orange County and ends of dying when fire sweeps the hills in Orange County , Ca. I'd love to read this again! It was so romantic and I'm running out of romance and this book could keep me in the game. LOL! Help! Ona

Hello everyone! I'm glad to join this forum.

Hello everyone - I stumbled upon this site looking for resources for writing a mute character and decided to join! I am a 26 year old fantasy writer from Australia working on a series called Ties that Bind; The Chronicles of Ravenica Teyrune! This has been in the works for almost 10 years now and I write a little more of one volume or another every day; writing keeps me sane!

Happy to be here :)

Hi, I'm Martyna (this name can be a bit weird for u guys, but it's typical Polish name ;)) I'm 16 and really keen on reading books. I often fall in love with fictional characters, like Syrius Black, Rett Butler (last one ♥), Hareton Earnshaw, etc etc. Moreover, I love listening to music (my love- Arctic Monkeys- isn't Alex Turner genius? ;P)
Enjoy.