Hello Sapana and welcome to the site. :)
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Hello Sapana and welcome to the site. :)
Howdy ! Quite an accomplishment. Look forward to reading your poetry.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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Hello from western Canada! I did my undergrad in sciences but I have always loved arts and literature. Here I am now, mid life and I am really pursuing my passion for poetry, literature, and philosophy. Taking a lot of MOOCs and participating in various online websites that are focused on my passions.
My line of work is a field where art and science meet- wine! I enjoy consuming it from time to time to...hehe.
I am participating in NaPoWriMo and have gotten up to poem 6.
That's all I can think to say about me at this time.
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Welcome to the site, Dysprosium. Between your Apollonian aspirations and your Bacchic profession, I'm sure you will be a great poet. Please make yourself right at home. :)
Hi! I just signed up!
Hello. :] I thought I'd come to introduce myself before I hopped into the forum too much.
I was born as Talissia but more often go by Lisa and am a 25 year old Louisiana resident (don't tell anyone but I just recently started to love where I've grown up) and have been attempting to spend my off time reading and writing. I've always been a hard time choosing the books Ive read but as I've aged have developed the need for MORE.
Speaking of which, I'm happy to join you here on this forum as a part of my 2013 new years resolutions. :)
Hi HCMSgirl. Welcome to the site--please jump right in! :)
Welcome Amoratorium! I lived in New Orleans in the late 80s and early 90s; pre-Katrina, obviously, and something like the last days of Pompeii in my memory. But they are mostly crazy-happy memories. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the site. :)
HI Everyone.
Intension matters , action doesnt..Quote:
Originally Posted by Nlucky
Hey Nlucky. Welcome to the site.
Hey everyone. It was recommended to me that I read "How to Read a Book."
In doing so I am developing an intense desire to begin a journey through a western, and hopefully eastern, canon chronologically. I know that's an incredibly huge endeavor and I"m in no rush.
So, I thought it would be right for me to start here.
Thoughts, advice, and considerations greatly appreciated.
Welcome bsquare! I'm a great fan of reading without a rush, as well as Eastern and Western literature. It is a great adventure, and I wish you all the best on it. Reading chronologically is going to take a very long time, though, since there is so much. It can take years sometimes just to read just a handful of some of the older stuff. You might do better to focus on the novel, and work forward from there. Another approach would be to "time travel" by starting with a book from the 21st century, then reading one from the 20th, 19th, 18th, etc. In theory you could get all the way back to Gilgamesh that way. It would be quite a journey. Or you could just read various classics here and there like some of us do. Good luck whichever road you take, and again, welcome to the site. :)
Hi everyone. I am new to the site. I am very interested in literature, specifically those in the western canon. I enjoy reading (and rereading) shakespeare and chaucer, as well as the ancient greek tragedies. Furthermore, I enjoy reading texts on maths and physics (I am currently reading Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy and Huygen's treatise on light). I am currently thinking of reading either Goethe's Faust or Don Quixote. I am in middle school but after this summer will go to highschool. Hope to use this site to get insight on any random question on literature I have!
Welcome Robert. I love your avatar--Cicero, I think? It sounds like you have an outstanding background in literature, especially for a Middle School student. You are very welcome here. Please don't be shy about speaking up. :)
Hi all,
I wanna write a lot, put it all here, and get my stuff reviewed. And eventually get better at writing. so pls pls help. Thanks a lot!! cheers!
Hey ho, heyho! Welcome. If you post it, they will criticize.
Hi everybody. I'm Parisa from Iran. I study master of English literature and these days Im occupied writing my thesis on Foucauldian study of post colonial novels.
I found Foucault so much dazzling but at the same time puzzling:-)
I found out this forum recently and joined today hoping that it would help me gqin the necessary data needed to pack for understanding this theorician.
nice to be here.
Hello ya'll. I have posted a few stories and poetry threads, and I would love it if people give me feedback on them.
Hey Bjorn, welcome to the site (or welcome back, I guess). My advice is to put a comment like this on each of those threads. People probably just missed them the first time.
Greetings!
This was the first community that popped up on my search so I decided to join. Looking forward to reading and hopefully participating. Cheers!
Welcome Xev. Hope it's participation, but enjoy yourself in any case. :)
Hi all, I've had a lifelong hatred for literature and reading in general, mainly because I was too impatient to absorb the material and/or had too short an attention span to appreciate it. Well, after suffering through countless literature/writing courses in my education, I've decided to give it a second try. A little background: classical music (the study and performance of) was the foremost passion of my life, but I've chosen to give it up because of personal reasons and time constraints. So this will be my opportunity to move on to another type of art, an art that is totally strange and frightening to me. Perhaps there were things about literature that I've overlooked, and will now come back to enlighten me.
I am currently reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Why these two books? On a whim, and by chance, these were the first two books I saw while dusting off a few boxes in the garage one day.
Pleasure to be here.
Well if you hate reading I definitely would not start with The Idiot.
Yeah no kidding. Clopin's right, The Idiot is not a great starting place. The Great Gatsby or Sense and Sensibility or Chekhov's short stories or Alice Munro or lots of others would be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rei
Why? So far it hasn't been boring me, and I'm about a third of the way in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Hi Rei! Welcome to the site. Perhaps what you were really hating all those years was having literature like The Idiot crammed down your throat because it was "something that you should read" rather than an emotionally rich (not to say excruciating) experience, and a book one might want to read. It's important to read what you love, and if you are enjoying Dostoyevsky, I recommend that you stick with him. The Brothers Karamazov is even better--his masterpiece, really.
By the way, your name means "of the thing " or "to the thing" in Latin, and could potentially be translated as "to the point." Did you do that on purpose? Or maybe it has something to do with classical music?
In any case, welcome to the site. :)
Well, if you like it then keep going! It's just a rather dense, painful text for many readers. But like Pompey said, keep reading Dostoevsky if he speaks to you. Crime and Punishment is a blast.
Rei means zero in Japanese and is the name of a character from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Is that where your name is from? Who's right, Pompey, me, or neither? :)
Well then you should be fine. A lot of people find The Idiot in particular to be quite boring, I don't but it wouldn't be my first choice with Dosto either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rei
Crime and Punishment, Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Gogol in general, Kurt Vonnegut in general, Fathers and Sons, Notes from Underground, Ivanov, The Catcher in the Rye, A Hero of Our Time and Watership Down are all books I would recommend someone who hasn't read much.
Hi! My name is Katie and that is pretty much it!
In reply to Pompey Bum and Lykren:
Thanks for the welcomes, and no, neither of you are right about my username. I decided upon it on a whim, but based on my initials. However, those are some interesting guesses!
The Idiot is a primarily existentialist, but beautiful, text examining how Christ would fare in the modern world. So, the narrative isn't as linear or dramatic as Crime and Punishment, none of his other novels are, however it has its own fascinating metaphysical narrative about the spiritual connections and disparities between Myshkin and Roghozin and both of their desires Nastassya. I always recommend it and The Devils/Possessed if they want to read the best Modernist (non-linear) existentialist novels of F.D. Most of them have loved The Idiot, the Devils, not so much.
P.s. Kurosawa's film of The Idiot is brilliant.
Greetings Katie Cranberries and welcome to the site. :)
PB, we get some impassioned discussion about the nature of Prince Myshkin in the Authos List forum, if you are interested.
Edit: Oh and welcome to the site, PB. :)
Hello folks, I've been lurking here for some time now.
I'm from Finland and, in addition to literature (classics, poetry), am interested in visual arts (painting drawing, etc, I'm also an amateur photographer), classical music and movies.
Welcome North Star!
We've chatted about classical music a bit, but what films and directors do you like?
Hey everybody, I' m Jenny, though I suppose that was not too hard to guess! I don' t do any writing but I love to read!
Zvyagintsev, Tarkas, Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Leone, Lang, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Fassbinder, Dreyer, Dassin, Coens, Chaplin, need to see more Bergman, AndersonQuote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Rome Open City, Bicycle Thieves, Godfather I&II, As Good As it Gets, Jackie Brown, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Ran, Yojimbo, Rashomon, 'Lust, Caution', Big Lebowski, Vertigo
There's a lot of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Russian, European, American, Brazilian cinema I need to see.
Don't know, don't know, so-so, don't know, don't know, haven't seen, of course, of course, pretty good but no fave, not seen yet, also not seen Dreyer (for shame eh), don't know, like quite a bit, like quite a bit, WATCH ALL THE BERGMAN YOU CAN, Anderson is great.
Wow.
Yes, Yes, Yes, not seen, not seen, not seen, YES, so-so, yes, not seen, yes, yes.
Yes, I intend to watch all the Bergman I can. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
I'd like to see your list of movies and directors, as it seems that there would be some different names ;)
Unless you've already seen his works, you have to see John Ford as well. He one of the greatest American directors of all time, if not the greatest, and has been a huge influence on hundreds of directors, including Kurosawa, Lucas, and Scorsese. His best films are: The Searchers, Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but he has many other greats.