Hi, I was busy with my studies last few years and just started to enjoy my life. that's why i wanted to join a forum like this.. :) Thank You..!!
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Hi, I was busy with my studies last few years and just started to enjoy my life. that's why i wanted to join a forum like this.. :) Thank You..!!
Hello all,
I will probably write more here than I ever would in an autobiography, but I digress. So I guess I'll start of with hobbies. I mostly write then read and spend my time searching up new-to-me classical music all the while. I haven't done much reading in the past little while because of NaNoWriMo, although I am starting to get back into it. I am in my senior year of high-school and dreading its end; then I'll be off to more school that I'll actually have to pay for. Yippee... My favourite authors include Margaret Atwood, David Eddings, Poe, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Woot, I wrote a lot...
Hi, I'm Christian Renee Friborg! I signed in a month ago, add me if you want! Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Hello everyone:)
I am also new here. I live in Poland and I am addicted to reading:) In spite of reading I also write something sometimes.
I like so called classic (E. Bronte, Shakespeare, F.G. Lorca, G. G. Marquez, Tolkien, F. Herbert). However I am still searching something new.
Best wishes for everyone,
Hannah
Hi everybody:) 16 year old literature student here, interested in reading all the literature works and posting some of my own:) great site!!:)
Welcome, Gumball! Looking forward to reading your work. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumball
hi every one ..i am elza..n tis is ma first experience joining a literary forum...i am doin my graduation in english literature and we r supposed to do project in final year ..i am working on a novel based surrogacy and the explotation it unleashes on the poor women folk of india...can any one suggest me a literary theory based on this explotation on women on the grounds of surrogacy.,other than psycological and ethical...frndz pls help
Hello fellow Lits jockys, I Goodman Brown am neither scholar nor Graduate simply a man who rediscovered reading after a life of working and much fun, I live here in Hurricane alley in the Southern part of the United States, New Orleans to be exact! so now I welcome you to welcome me to this forum that I stumbled upon while sailing thru ciber space and it is my pleasure to have done so!!!!!Nathaniel Hawthorne gave me Goodman Brown,,, so live well,,, for the Great Mayan Prophosy is upon us..............................
Hello everyone, I just finished reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky after many years of having interest in reading it. Must say my mind has been blown! Now I have a list of many other classics on my "to read" list. Came across this forum when looking up information about classic literature and thought it'd be great to be able to discuss lit stuff with people to keep the flame alive and learn other's ideas!
Hi, new people! This is a fun place. Lots to see and do. Very enriching.
Hello! I've been trying to read more books lately, so I thought this would be a good forum site to join for discussions. I read "War and Peace" over the summer, and I'm about to finish reading "Ulysses". I think I'm going to continue to focus on Western classics for now.
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Hello everyone, I'm a long time admirer of Shakespeare, first time blogger. I'm looking forward to the discussions and debates, and many different points of view. I just purchased a facsimile of the first folio, and I am enjoying reading Richard II, in it.
Hello everybody
i am here
I always imagine hello should be the first word however; it tends not to play into my desire for originality.
What to tell you about me, I've vexed over it for a little while now. I could tell you that I'm twenty four, that I love and am loved and work to live; not live to work. Yet, it falls short of what I'm trying to express.
I could tell you that in my imagination the world is a much more interesting place. That there are things and people so wondrous you'd scarcely believe me, yet I know many have that window into an ideal world. To share the vision is a reason to write is it not?
I could tell you that I search for a perfection I see so often in other peoples writings and the uplifting or crushing words therein that I often over look what I can achieve. To get a sense of emotion and feeling in a story or any form of writing is what I aim for; the perfection I desire. If I can make one person feel the way I intended upon reading something I've put effort into then it would have been worth it.
I could choose now to mention that I struggle with spelling and punctuation, that the written words I chase always feel so far from my grasp that I let the dull voices in the back of my mind convince me I can't have them.
And yet; I have the ability to draw tears or such smiles it over joys me at times to see and hear reactions from people that have read what I've written. I'm always of the opinion that I can't write, that my efforts fall short of the perfection I'm so chasing. Then, I get such comments as to make everything worth the time. I do try though my current efforts remain constrained to short stories, chapters and poems.
I hope in course that I can uplift or thrill those of you on here that have the opportunity to read something I've written. I've already spent time reading others here and I'm eager to do more; it's in those little quirks excellent writing spins from the mediocre and I'm already learning from people here.
So, hello!
I'm here and hoping to share. Getting critique and help from others will be more than welcome.
Thank you for your time in reading this!
Ouro.
i'm a french, living in a province Allier. I like "War and Peace", i plan to write something everyday. i baptise my project as "war and peace, chaptre by chaptre everyday".
je suis français et j'habite en le département Allier. j'aime bien le roman de Tolstoï, "la guerre et la paix". j'essaie écrire quelques phrases chaque jour. je baptise mon projet "la guerre et la paix, chapitre par chapitre tous les jours".
Hi, I'm Joshua from Canada.
My favourite author is George Orwell (you can't beat 1984's prose), my favourite novel is Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.
The last novel I read was George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings and I am currently reading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre.
I've been planning to write a short story for the longest time but still haven't got around to it.
Hello Ouro, Jacques, and Joshua! Welcome, welcome, welcome!
Hello, I'm a high school student who loves to read. I'm currently reading the second volume of Foote's The Civil War. I also love Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Beckett.
Hello everyone, I've just joined and am introducing myself in the the good old polite way we Brits have. I'm very excited - and sacred - that my first novel is released in less than two weeks time and I'm already getting a few reviews on Amazon as the Kindle version went up last month before the release of the print version. I suddenly understand what it means to stand metaphorically naked in front of the word and expose your innermost thoughts and your psychological make-up- because that's what you do every time you write something. Anyway, I'm looking forward to sharing ideas and support on here - so hi!
Hello online-literature community, its a pleasure reading all your post! I've been browsing around this website like a shadow for the last two weeks reading posts on Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Goethe's Sorrow of Young Werther, a recent most on Marxists, and other books and philosophies, and I must say I've never been so excited to join an online forum community before! I apologize in advance for grammatical mistakes...my English is fairly poor because I used to skip English class...: /
Anyways, I've finally got myself into the habit of reading and hope our literary adventures cross sometime in the future!
-David
I thought it may be fun to write some stories. But I'm sure they'll be terrible, so I thought maybe some constructive criticism may help improve my efforts.
I like literary criticism, but reading less-so. Hopefully I can still be of some use to others anyway. :D
Hey all, I'm not sure what sort of introduction to give really... but I'll just get to it!
I'm currently in my senior year of highschool, I work at a carwash near Minneapolis (which is, to put lightly, dreadful in the cold months). I try to stay involved in the Minneapolis/St. Paul music scene. I'm a bassist and guitar player with inclination towards everything from Chet Baker to Chet Atkins, The Ramones to A Tribe Called Quest, and just about everything in between. I mostly plan on using the site for getting recommendations on what to read first from new writers I learn of. I'm a pretty big fan of Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Emerson, Bukowski (what can I say, I'm an angsty teenager). Anyways, Hello!
waji here, m new here and m a university student
Hi all, I'm a Masters student in England studying political theory. None of my current friends seem to like literature to the same degree I do, so I need a place to discuss it properly!
Currently reading Lolita and Hitchen's memoirs.
Hello the Forum:
My name is James. I've just checked in here and I shall read through a few threads before jumping in anywhere.
At the moment I'm reading H G Wells' Experiment in Autobiography and Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.
Hello to all
too much to list and hate talking about myself, lots of government service, lots of military, too much education. nearly my entire purpose for the last 10 years has been writing a screenplay/movie, building working props for the movie, etc. i would mention it here but i do not to be in violation of any link rules or seem like i'm promoting it here... suffice to say maybe the ebook is a screenplay for the movie is already out and is mainly about giving some kind of closure for the most determined Coyote and speediest Roadrunner in history... we've had live-action movies adapted from just about every classic cartoon or action heroes in the past (batman, superman, spiderman, transformers, flinstones... you get the picture), but nothing about them... I hope to remedy that. The script is under private review right now by a studio but it is a very long road. I have a website just for the whole project but I do not think I can mention it or the book/movie's title per the rules. that's ok. i would there would be little more irritating than a newby coming on here, promoting their book or whatever and then dissapearing. i know it would irritate me unless it was a thread just for that purpose. but suffice to say i am consumed with this project. ok, other than that...
I like to read of course, classic movies (nightmare alley on right now), build machines, talk. i live one mile from the beach but in the last 10 years i've seen it less than a dozen times. i do live on a boat in a marina in texas, will be moving back to california soon. was married once and do have an adult child, lonely but not enough to do anything about it. always was a loner anyways, even when i was married... i love the philippines, may be moving there someday, have visited there several times.
hope to get to maybe get to know a few of you here and see what the deal is... best of luck to all
Hi all, my name is Scott. I just joined. I love reading, just got the new Kindle Paperlight, so I'm reading even more than usual. I love everything: fiction, non-fiction, history, the classics, best-sellers, fantasy... My two all time favorites are Hugo's Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Right now I'm reading Don Quixote. I also like to write very short poems and stories.
Hi all, my name is Marcus and I love to read. Probably read close to 500 novels so far. I'm currently an assistant librarian at a school. Some of my favorite authors include Shakespeare, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett
My favorite books include Les Mis, Lord of the Rings, The Stand, IT, The Princess Bride, Don Quixote, Hitchhiker's Guide
This looks like a cool place. Hope to be here for a while
Hi, and welcome everybody-Fat Elvis, 2X, Bibliophile, Scotty, JStuart, Acid, Silas. I've already seen some of your posts. Glad to see you leaping into the fray, as it were.
I love building machines too. I own a small company and make custom electronics for large companies. I love creating a machine in my imagination and making it real, step by step. From soldering to C++.
What kind of machines do you build? Are these your movie props?
Nice to meet you qim. Great avatar. I just finished the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I'm definitely going to read more Victor Hugo.
My name is Nick and its nice to meet everybody.
I found this forum while researching mental blindness. If you guys aren't familiar with the condition, it means you can't produce any mental images. It afflicts 3% of the population and the only known cause is hypoxia at birth. I was a blue baby and I'm mentally blind. I'm also the only avid reader I know who has this condition. Usually readers are the best visualizers, from the 5% of the population with an eidetic memory, who can read the word tree and count the leaves on it. To me its just a word, but I'm hoping to change that. I'd love to hear from anyone who is mentally blind, has info on it, or just wants to discuss it. Outside of my work in engineering, literature is probably my biggest interest and I want to learn to fully appreciate it.
I enjoy early 20th Century lit, especially the Lost Generation (Fitzgerald/Hemingway/Dos Passos), Depression generation (Bowles/Burroughs), and the WW2 generation (Kerouac/Mailer/Vidal). I also love logically constructed mysteries where you can use the details to figure out what's going on and predict the ending, like Philip K Dick's Gameplayers of Titan and Ray Chandler's Big Sleep. I also enjoy the entire spectrum of sci fi, from the hard (Verne/Clarke/Asimov/Pynchon) to the soft (Wells/Herbert/Dick). In all these genres I love big novels where you watch a group of characters interacting to produce a chain of events, like an evolving system. Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and Mailer's Naked and the Dead are good examples. Kerouac's Town and the City is a less organized, more impressionistic version of that.
Hello, my name is Cyreen, 16 years old form. Reading and writing are my favourite passtimes. I like reading/watching mangas, psychology, philosophy... ehh well I don't have too much to say about myself.. I'm still a beginner but I'm working hard to improve my skills.. My favourite authors are Edgard Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, Dan Brown and so many others.. I tend to like novels/tales/poems of mystery and the macabre and religious texts. That's all. ( Welcome to the new members )
Hello, I'm new. I had difficulty getting back to selecting "Authors" once I am in the Forums. How do I get back to "Authors" from "Forum"?
At the bottom of every page there's a link to the main site sitting between "Contact Us" and "Privacy Statement".Quote:
Originally Posted by Chungsoo J. Lee
Hi, my name is Lyn & I enjoy literary books primarily. Although Agatha Christie is a favorite too! I have just read Richard Yate's book, "Revolutionary Road." Somewhat what on the same lines, I am also reading Kerouac. I also love English Lit such as Thomas Hardy and George Elliot and Jane Austen. I am finishing Margaret Atwood's, "The Year of the Flood." I read "Alias Grace" before that. She is such a diverse writer!
My hobbies are gardening, jogging, working out, cats, and I worked in several libraries in my working years. I am 55, and not employed (would like to be), but planning my next move as to job searching.
This forum will be a nice change for me! Lyn
Hello everyone =D My name is Franznar12 and I'm new member of this site =D I wish you will be nice on me =D
I suppose this is a good place to post a first post. I guess I'll just describe who I am and why I'm here.
My name is Nick. I'm a part-time college student majoring in English/writing. I signed up for this site because I have a short story class this semester and it's been a long while since I've delved into that realm. I'm hoping I can receive (and contribute) helpful criticism before I have to read my stories aloud in class. :)
hi my name is levent and i am from turkey
Hello everyone, I'm new my name is Emma and I'm from England, United Kingdom.