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03-25-2009, 03:49 PM
barbarela

hello everybody! I'm a Brontë Sisters truly fan!

Bárbara
03-25-2009, 09:13 PM
PGraz20

hello everyone. I will refreain from writing a lengthy introduction. I am a highschool student and i love literature. Writing, reading , plays, all of it. I have loved to read since i was a young child ( im sure many of you consider me child because im a mere senior in highschool and so many of you are well beyond college, so i will be specific and say "young"). However im not much of a performer in the drama department, mainly because many of my best friends are fellow jocks. Yes I am quite the athlete and apparently im a rare breed , do to the athleticism and love for literature. It is for this reason I am greatful for wonderful message boards such as this one because i love to discuss literature and my best friend and fellow captain of the football team hasnt read a book for pleasure since the 5th grade. Im almost certain it was one from the Captain Underpants serie. so thanks.. by the way i just started getting into james joyce and i need a little help. Ive been reading about him because i feel to truely understand an artists work you must understand them as a person, for the most part. thanks everyone.
03-25-2009, 10:01 PM
Janine

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Originally Posted by MissScarlett

Oh, Women in Love is a great book! That's another favorite of mine. I haven't read The White Peacock or The Trespasser. I love to read The Rainbow with you and others. I think it would be great for discussion and with Lawrence, there's always so much to discuss. I wish someone would do a collection of all of Lawrence's short stories like they do with other short story writers. I wonder if his novels have eclipsed his short stories in the publishing world?

We had a wonderful discussion on "Women in Love"...I guess it was 2 yrs ago; am I right Virgil? The thread still exists, but must be way back there in the pages by now; sorry you were not around then. I need to copy that discussion as a text file to my HD; first I have to find it. It's my favorite Lawrence book. I read it twice and listened to the audio narration now, nearly twice. I love it. I love the beautiful writing in "The White Peacock" but it is an early work and has it's flaws; however, it's brilliant just the same, because the young Bert Lawrence was brilliant from the start. It is not an easy book to find. "The Trespasser" I read recently. It was really different and the prose was amazingly gorgeous. It felt like a long prose poem. I am surprised that more people do not read that book. I knew the background story of how it came about - the idea taken from a true, a story relayed by his friend Helen concerning her romantic but brief experience with a married man. One of his short stories relates to this novel, so that stimulated my curiosity.
Well, "The Rainbow" will no doubt be the next novel we all do; us Lawrence enthusiasts.

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Oh no Scarlett, you like Lawrence as well? I think you're going to fit in really well. Well, we're glad you found us.

Yes, Virgil, I think we found another person to recruit for the short stories. Lynne50 also likes Lawrence. This is great; always good to find new participants.

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It's always great to learn from one another. I'm glad I found a forum where people actually love to discuss literature. A lot of them I've participated in deteriorate into mindless chatter or arguing. It's nice to find one where actual discussion is going on.

It is and we do that. Sometimes we start out with a Lawrence short story and some say they don't like this or that about the story, and by the end of the discussion, how much our perceptions have been altered. It is interesting to see that process and how we all learn from each other. I love the serious discussions we have had on here, too. There are still lots of threads that are 'light' and even pure nonsense, but sometimes sparks of genius do come through and YES, we do actually discuss literature here in quite a number of threads.
03-25-2009, 11:59 PM
trina1

hi ,everyone just thought that i would say hello and that i'm getting ready to read war and peace any comments on getting through, thanks
03-26-2009, 10:27 AM
mkh1958

New member - mkh1958

Hi there! I'm a new Literature Network member. My special interests are James Joyce, Jane Austen, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I look forward to many conversations with you!
03-26-2009, 10:56 PM
paralyzer1006

hey! my name is kathy, and i'm new to this forum. my two greatest loves are, of course, writing short stories/novels and writing poems. I'm very friendly and I love meeting new people with similar interests!! :)
03-26-2009, 11:03 PM
kevinthediltz

Good to meet everyone!
Hope you all like it here. :)
03-27-2009, 11:12 AM
Halima Khan

Hi! Everyone. I just joined today and i am looking fwd to get helped and help you all in any way i could
03-27-2009, 09:47 PM
paisleypost

hi! i was here a couple of years ago and am happy to return. i write poetry, short fiction and short plays.
03-28-2009, 03:33 PM
KDD

Hello

Hiii everybody
I'm KDD
03-30-2009, 02:33 PM
Esraa

hi every one, iam very happy to injoin you .
My name is Esraa , iam Arabian
and, joined you to get benefit .
that's all
thank you for haveing me :)
03-30-2009, 03:27 PM
Carrolb2

Hey. I'm new here. Hoping this will kill the boredom at work when there's no projects to work on
03-31-2009, 06:56 PM
selsabil

hello everybody, :
every thing has a first time, so this is mine here;
I'm from Algeria , I graduated last year in Letters and Foreign Languages( English) ,
I like reading novels , shortstories, but I'm not fond of poetry, I don't know why ( for instance because I've never dealt with one before ) , English is my third language after Arabic (the first ) and French ( as the second ) .
So this is all for now
04-01-2009, 05:11 AM
Luciela Minerva

Hi everyone! Well, firstly, I don't really know how to make an introduction... words currently fail me at this point of time because I just took a dump and then decided to write an introduction here because I'm so random like that. I'd probably go run a few circles later on, but that's not really relevant here, is it?

So anyway, I'm actually migrating from my previous watering hole (heh heh), but I'm getting impatient with that place because of the lack of intellectual stimulation there. It's flooded with kids and I guess I need to grow up a little.

I enjoy a lot of things, from literature to chemistry; so much so that my list would never be an exhaustive one, so instead, I'd rather list the things I do NOT like, but then again, who the heck is so negative in their first introduction?

I hail from a little sunny island in SouthEast Asia called Singapore. I'm currently 21 at point of writing and I'm working as an operations executive.

I just completed my Diploma in Biotechnology last year and am currently just starting to learn about life.

I've been through a lot in my 21 years; most of them bad experiences, but because of my horrible memory, I live on a day-to-day basis.

I'm ADD/ADHD so I tend to be random and unpredictable.

I enjoy writing, music, poetry, philosophizing and psychology. My dream is to be a psychologist and I'm figuring out a way to become one.

I do hope to learn a lot from the community here because I feel this would be a place I would be able to fit in pretty nicely. I'd love a mental challenge every now and then.

Oh btw, I'm an ENTP Choleric Sanguine.

Nice to meet you all and I do hope to make tons of buddies here!

Peace and God bless!
04-01-2009, 05:58 AM
markpeter

Hi all...

This is mark. I think this one is the best forum for sharing knowledge..and i am proud to be the part of this discussion.