Huge welcome to all the newcomers here. You will enjoy your visits here, trust me! :)
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Huge welcome to all the newcomers here. You will enjoy your visits here, trust me! :)
Greetings! I am a going-to-be librarian and Internet geek. I actually found this forum through a project for work, where I'm looking for short stories either in the public domain or that I could track down the authors for and request permission to use the story for a puzzle/storytelling fundraiser event...
My favorite authors are Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Shannon Hale, Neil Gaiman, Vivian Vande Velde, Robin McKinley, Patricia C. Wrede, Patricia A. McKillip, Holly Black, and Charlaine Harris... to name but a few.
Aside from reading books, web comics, comic books, graphic novels, and a few choice blogs, my hobbies include playing online games, learning the electric bass, and web organizational tools (ex. Flickr, LibraryThing, 43 Things, etc.).
I look forward to exploring this site thoroughly! :D
Hello, I've been a member for some time now, but spent it contributing to threads- it's an addiction.
I'm a twenty-five year old college student. I just completed the first semester of a psychology major, which will lead to a career in psychiatry and neurology.
I've had an inactive interest in writing until the beginning of this year. I'm a fan of Hemingway and Borges. And thanks to suggestions from this forum, I'm readin Light in August ... wow! I didn't k now what could satisfy me after reading Waiting for Godot, but this did nicely.
I read Sanctuary earlier this year and concluded that Faulkner is a
powerhouse. I'm reading Molloy next, but can't wait to return to Faulkner- The sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying ... I'm thinking Knight's Gambit ... but, Wild Palms, Absolam Absolam and Go Down Moses all sound good- so many, so, so many.
Well... hi.:)
I have been tryin to get more into stuff like this online, i play to many games and, i fear my imagination will soon be gone. But well im a teenage boy, what else to do?
I play games and i am very eager to win anything and everything possible... but ya know... doesnt always work. The gaming world has gotten mean and i have decided to lay of X-box live for a while and read somthing...
Other than games i play football and hang out like any other teen. I act stupid around my friends, because, they are all not that smart, but i am accualy kinda smart id like to think.
My dad is on this site all the time so i figured i would try it out, and if you catch me using lol's and other internet/texting slang, it is a habbit...
Welcome, Welcome to the Black Parade.. kidding. Welcome, Nick! I hope you'll enjoy your time here in Litnet.
Helo, everybody! I'm Reccura, a new member here.. kidding...
Well, welcome, Mehrune! I hope you enjoy it here!
I don't know about what particular user name you are talking about, but it's all about interpretation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
I don't know if you had a chance to read Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco). But there you can see different meanings for different people, depending how you interpret signs and symbols, numbers and letters.
But - thanks for the welcome!
XY&Z reminds me of the thing we learned in history, the "X,Y, and Z affair" that little event during the French Revolution...
Hello all, and welcome to the site.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...ys/welcome.gif
(even if you have been here for a little while already! :D )
hey!
I am a Czech student and I am looking for someone who knows or teaches the American literature. I have to write quite a big work and I need to read some of the English speaking writers (British / American - I prefer this). As I will have to read a lot of his / her work, I need it to be short stories if possible. And an easy language to understand, like Kate Chopin, or Sherwood Anderson.
My knowledge about the American authors is not so wide so I would very appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
kvetinka
Welcome Kvetinka. I like that name by the way. It has a very nice sound to it. What particular era of American writers are you looking for? I would say that Ernest Hemmingway is not so difficult to read for a foreign student. If you would prefer a female writer, perhaps you might want to try Edith Wharton. What kind of work is your project?
Hello All,
I'm very glad I happened upon this site. I'm a college student (will be a soph) and I'm trying to decide what to do with my life, or at least my years spent at school. The initial plan was to be an English/French double major as these subjects come most naturally. Otherwise, there's philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and environmental studies which also divert me. My courses in literature this year greatly disheartened me. I hope to use this summer and this site to decide if my passion for literature can be reinvigorated. My gut says yes, and I think it's already begun.
This semester I studied almost exclusively British modern poetry. It was rather draining. My favorite poem I studied was Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi." I just finished reading The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and it made me very happy. Anyone have anything to say about this book or Ms. Stein? I was disappointed to see she doesn't have a thread devoted to her.
I love the word assonance, and also finding it at play within poetry.
Alrighty, there's my intro. I'm off to explore other threads.
Welcome one, welcome all! :wave: :wave: :wave:
What a nice web site, with such interesting members! They
read Dickens, Yeats, and (ahem) Goethe (in translation)and Robertson Davies. Perhaps ol Auntie has found a home here.
hi, i m tuly, i m afraid i have the ability to introduce myself for i have only 7 posts! here are lots of friends like me.i have finished graduation a month ago and next moth will get admitted to MA in literature.i have learned french foa a year and now planning for German.I dare not say anything else only a short question-why is so people are here behind an unreal name and image?
Sooo nice to hear from someone a word addressed to me, thanks! I think that I do not have any specific era of American writers on mind but I would like it to be modern. Well, let´s see if I can make myself clear. I will have the example of E. Hemmingway - he does not seem to me as someone easy to read, it has got quite a lot of words from a particular background (marine talk, medical talk) and I would spend a lot of time looking up everything that would be necessary to understand it well. Neither the subject of war or fishing attracts my attention.
Please do not take this bad. It is not a critics. I myself, I am just trying to make clear what I am looking for.
Anyway, I will have a look on that female one you told me, E.W.
My project is supposed to be done on 40 pages. It should concern the work of an English writing author. And they want to make me think, the teachers, to come up with my own thoughts, with something provocative. You see, I need to find something I can be inspired by to deal with this extreme amount of pages.
if better, contact me on: [email protected]
Thanks for your help!
BTW: this nick name, i just grabbed something that I happend to think about. There are another places to post the explanation of a nick name, so shortly: "little flower" in Czech.