Hey, I am 25 and love reading fantasy books!
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Hey, I am 25 and love reading fantasy books!
I'm new here and interested in all things linguistic and literary. I guess i will stay around for a while and read your contributions with interest, reply sometimes or start up a thread myself. See you.
Allo All!
My name is Ein and I'm from Wet TN. I love to read, and happily classify myself as a bibliophile. I am currently working on amassing a very large collection of children's books, everything from Beatrix Potter to Frank L. Baum.
I have a special place in my heart for all books horse related, as I am a equine fanatic; and I'm obessed with Alice in Wonderland (this obession has been rampant since I was about five or six). In addition to reading I'm also into cooking, swimming, and sewing just to name a few hobbies. I look forward to talking with all of you! Hope you all have great days and good nights!
Ein
Hi, everybody!
I'm new here (duh). Avid reader. I'm an engineer who writes in his spare time. I'm fascinated by good writing. I'm a fan of Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Anthony Burgess, etc. etc. Right now I'm reading some Robertson Davies.
I'm also a guitarist and folksinger.
I'm originally from Canada, but I now live in California. I'm looking forward to finding some interesting discussions here!
Hello people!
Found this forum, and after a few hours of lurking I realised I'd be stupid to not register. So, here I am, and I'm ready to talk about great literature!
To know a little bit about what I 'dig', my favourite writers are Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov and Ernest Hemingway. I'm a huge fan of short stories, and I'm just beginning to write my own. Hopefully I'll begin to post some when I deem them worthy.
I'm developing a love for Science Fiction at the moment too, and I seem to be buying at least two SF books a week. I'm currently reading Dune and I can't believe it's a book I've not read before! I really admire Frank Herbert's writing style too, as it's completely active and straight to the point.
Anyway, I'm sure that was a lot of waffle right there, but anyhow, this is my hello message, and I look forward to talking to you all. :)
Hello,
I was excited to find a discussion of literature with such a passionate and involved group! I have recently started volunteering as a grantwriter for with a non-profit literary and arts magazine (same name as the handle if you're interested). I am thrilled with what they do and how they do it, but it has been difficult for me to see how it fits in a larger context since my training is in the sciences, my experience is in the military, and literature, poetry and art are all a bit foreign to me. I'm looking forward to broadening my horizons though!
I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" on a whim a while ago and was absolutely shocked at how captivating the story was. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are more thrilling and thought provoking books out there and I'm am more than content to lurk, learn, and add to my reading list :)
Nice to meet all of you! If you have any titles that need to go on my list, I'd love to hear them.
Dune is an amazing book! I read it in eighth grade for a school project and I don't think I have stopped reading science fiction since. I adore Jo Clayton (a very different style of writing your basic adventure story in the stars) and Spider Robinson (just brilliant), find Larry Niven to be a little methodical if a great idea man, and have recently started on Gene Wolfe's Long Sun Cycle and am really enjoying it.
Brilliant Ruminate! I must check out all of those writers. I've just finished college for the summer, so I've finally got some time to read books that I want to read, so I'm going to make it my mission to plough through as much S.F. as humanly possible.
I should get into science fiction again. I used to do nothing but read science fiction when I was a kid (younger than sixteen or so), but I kind of got out of that when I started reading "respectable" literature. I started raiding my dad's bookshelves, and he had Hemingway, Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Chekov, Gogol, and more modern stuff like Pynchon. And for a long time, as an adult, I pretty much stopped reading fiction and stuck to biography, history, popular science, and so on.
So who are the really good science fiction writers today?
Hi everyone
I love to read esp.literature, and military fiction and nonfiction
I've not read it, but I have this on my list to read:Quote:
Originally Posted by minstrelbard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kraken-China...5846693&sr=8-1
I saw a favourable review for it in The Guardian, and it sounds really interesting. Quite slipstream too. I haven't heard of the author before either.
Thom - The summer between high school and college I read, went to the beach and went running, and that was all I did. It was the best summer ever - enjoy it! And of course, all those excellent titles you come across you should share them here :) That Kraken book looks fabulous!
MinstrelBard - Just scanning some of the more recent titles on my shelves I'd pick Orson Scott Card (the Ender's Game series, prequels, sequels and spinoffs), Philip K. Dick, Alan Dean Foster. I can't think of the author of Snow Crash, but that is an excellent book as well. There's plenty out there I'd just pick an interesting looking cover and get started :)
Hi Wolf23 - You mentioned military novels... I'm going to leave this here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...-war-reporting In the course of the article he discusses some incredible books. I'd also add On Killing to that list, I don't remember seeing it in there
Welcome, Welcome to all you newly signed up LitNetters!
You'll surely find something here that will make you so glad you signed on!
Happy Reading/Writing!
~K♥zzo
Hello, I,m new. Great to be here. You guys sound nice...... I hope you're nice. Anyway, thanks for letting me say hello. I'm a little nervous,well I'm just rambling now.
Hi everyone,
I am here to post one of my poem and I am looking forward to everyone's comments and feedbacks. I love writing but I rarely do so. Because, I feel Iam not good at it. Please pass on your sincere comments so that I can improve. Thank you so much.
Here is the poem:
Title: Life's Lessons!
When did I forget, It was not easy;
When did I forget, It was not fun,
Thought I learned this long time when I hit the mountain and I -
I hurt my knees only to blame to be blind and novice.
But Here I am, Once again - stand like an innocent child;
Simple as she can think, Mountains are way back gone!
Makes her way through the darkest clouds, tired and shattered
Thought she just learned it last time when she cried her heart out,
And secretly places the note in her life's lesson book.
When did I forget, It was not easy;
When did I forget, It was not fun,
When did I forget, It was life and all these are its learnings
And with every passing day, I get better
And with every trip, I get stronger.
Greeting and Salutations!
Like all of you, I have a passion for literature, and for most genres of it. My specific interests wax and wan with the seasons it seems and right now I am largely reading nothing but poetry, and 20 century poets in particular.
Anyway, look forward to reading and participating in some interesting discussions!