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Hi hi! I am excited to get reading some of your stories. This should be a lot of fun. I can't wait to play more on here. I'll be posting my first story today. Kinda the beginning to a series that is always evolving. XD Thanks for reading this! Oh and I guess my style of writing tends to be kinda fantasy, sometimes horror side.
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Hi there
so ...I'm Lady Disdain. Obviously not my real name, but you can call me that here =}
I like reading. Yup, huge revelation. To be more specific...I like reading anything that's worthwhile. Often you don't find this out until you actually start reading books, I know. Lately, I've gotten into this bad habit of leaving off books when I'm only halfway - that's mostly the YA genre, though. A lot of the paranomral crap which have been published off Twilight's backs make me do that. Which is why I don't read them anymore. Not to say that there aren't good YA books out there - there totally are; Libba Bray and David Levithan are two of my favorite YA authors, they sure know how to write, something which a lot of YA authors don't seem to know. Oh, and Melina Marchetta. She rocks my wooly socks. Otherwise I read historical fiction - huge Jane Austen fan, trying to finish Mansfield Park, the last books out of hers for me to read. Also love Jane Eyre. I love classics - the idea that certains books have had been able to stand the test of time, to me, is amazing. It is my dream that I also write something like that. This is why I love Shakespeare - I think he was a genius.
I also love satires - anything that makes fun of people, our habits, our pop culture. So if you know of any books that do this, pls recommend some :) I also love thrillers, mind-bending novels, things that look into the darker side of humanity - things like Poe's. I love Mr. Poe. A lot of my writing is similar to his - or is inspired by his, I should say. Let's not get too presumptuous.
I love Beatrice off Much Ado About Nothing - hence my user name.
I am a student doing a science and arts degree - torn between love of english and reluctance to rely on an english degree alone. Plus some other, boring factors. But embarking on this English degree has introduced me to a lot of new literature.
I have a long list of classics that I wish to finish before I die. The one I recently finished was A Tale of Two Cities which pissed me off to no end. Well, actually, the character, Lucy Manette pissed me off to no end. Sydeny Carton, I love you.
I can be classified as the girl who doesn't love Mr. Darcy, but Mr. Rochester. He's the official bad boy of literature. Drool.
I can also be classified as a mild feminist - not one of the angry ones (mostly). I hate double standards. I hate hypocrisy, though it abounds.
I will read anything except science fiction. But I probably shouldn't shun them, but we humans always do what we shouldn't so I am, of course, off the hook. Yes? =)
I am insanely bored at the moment which is why the length of this intro is proportionally and insanely long. Sorry about that. If you were bored enough, you have managed to read till these last few lines. Hope to see you ppl around.
I am a musician and composer who reads a lot of fiction. Among my favorite authors are William Gaddis (which you might have guessed from my screen name), Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Dostoyevsky, and Hugo. I'm not sure what this forum is all about but think it is worth looking into. That's all for now.
So frustrated. My time on here is limited so I haven't gotten it all figured out but I have to be missing something. I can't figure out where in the heck to post a new blog on my profile. It's driving me crazy. it should be right there... dang it... any help with this would be appreciated. Yea this is my first time getting into anything like this sorry....
Hello, I am glad to find this site and meet some new friends. I am a 51 year old female, married, have 5 children ages 9-19, work full time, and live in Israel. A couple of years ago my kids got big enough that I finally had a little bit of free time, so I resumed my old and beloved hobby: reading. My passion now is the British classics, although I will occassionally read something newer if it is clean and well done.
I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but (sorry to offend anyone) I found it very boring work. I didn't major in English because I prefered math, but I always loved to write poetry. I wrote a book a few years ago about my spiritual experiences. When I had one friend read it, she said she loved it. That was gratifying, but still no one will publish it.
My recent excursion into the British classics started with everything I could get my hands by Arthur Conan Doyle (there is a lot more than Sherlock Holmes). After that I added various other authors like Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, to name a few. I have collected a lot of books in the hopes that someday I will have more time to read! I have also recently discovered sites where you can read or listen to all kinds of books for free.
I recently read Travels in the Interior of Africa, a true and fascinating story of a British adventurer in the 1700's. The latest book I read is Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell. That was a gut wrenching, unforgettable tale, as captivating as The Count of Monte Cristo (at least for me). If anyone has read Ruth and wants to talk about it, please write to me because I have so many questions about WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY they each did what they did!!!!! It was such a thought provoking story! I only wish they each could have found happiness with each other!!!!! I suppose that was not the point of the story though.
I am not a professional writer, so please don't be too harsh with me - when I have time I do try to write correctly. Actually, I spent some years as a volunteer editor/proofreader.
I look forward to participating here when I have time. Blessings to everyone.
BookBuff
Yo people
I'm Mike from Chicago
glad I finally found a forum like this
Hello, my name is Thrasymachus, and I'm a sophist, a belligerent rhetorician and believe in the virtues of injustice (don't listen to that Socrates guy, he was an idiot).
P.S. I can teach you the art of verbal warfare, for a small fee...
Hi, glad to be here and looking forward to learning something new. My name is Dan, from the Rochester, NY area.
My dad always tried to get me to read as a kid. Never really did with a few exceptions. Mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and some horror. About ten years ago I read an article by a world war II bomber pilot and was instantly interested in reading more like it. I started buying books about the bomber war over Europe, mostly first-hand accounts. Then I started buying history books on the same subject. I eventally began reading about the air war in the Pacific as well and even some other forces accounts such as the navy. I have read about 200 such books. Between these I also read a few early-American history books.
I was in the USAF and got into Stephen King and Clive Barker. Recently, at the library, I was searching for a new air war book when I came across Clive's Mr. B. Gone. I checked it out and remembered how much I enjoyed reading him before (20 years before...). So, I now have purchased most of his works and more of Stephen King's for the upcoming winter. Apparently I needed a break from reading pilots memoirs and history.
Currently I am almost done with Barker's Imajica.
Anyway, I do like to read; more so as I have aged. Any recommendations similar to Barker would be appreciated!
Hi there all of you. I am absolutely delighted to be a part of the intellectual crowd. As an Indian who is into reading works from across the globe, I am sure I will find an amazing number of book-worms.
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Originally Posted by Tumaini
Thanks Delta but when I do that it doesn't come up with an option to post to my blog. It just says I have none. I'm sure it's obvious and could bite me but I'm just not seeing anything to help.
Hello everyone! Nice to be here, um, yeah!
(I know, my username sounds like a robot, doesn't it? But since I'm on an iPad, I figured it would be cool. Anyway..)
Yeah, I'm young and whatnot, but I'm perfectly capable of functioning on a literary website!
I doubt this is important, but I'm Chinese and Irish. And my hair hates me.
I live in Carlsbad, California, and I love reading - though- my love has been drowned in the attempt at reading Ulysses by James Joyce. My English teacher was talking about its immense difficulty to read. I was intrigued, though, and picked it up. He laughed at first, it's been nearly a month and he's stopped laughing.
Um, I'm planning to work for Blizzard Entertainment when I'm older.. (yes, I play World of Warcraft). I guess you could say I'm a little young to have decided what I might spend my life doing. You never know.
So I suppose that's it.
Hi guys, I've been a member of this forum a while but not posted anything yet so I thought I'd start by saying hello.
About me, basically my name is Robin, I am a 2008 graduate of Bath Spa University (BA (Hons) Psychology and English 2/1). My modules at uni were in Gothic, Poetry, Literary Theory, Shakespeare and Literature and the Environment (Ecocriticism). I've a feeling I've missed one out somewhere, but never mind.
I've always been interested in literature, ever since I first saw 'Oliver' on tv as a child, although I suspected my early reading of 'A Christmas Carol' also helped. I've always had a romantic streak and also been quite empathic, and something of the sadness in Dickens novels really got me I think. That feeling stays with me to this day, and I just love it when there's a new Dickens dramatisation out on tv (Andrew Davies is the king of these at present in my opinion - watching 'Little Dorritt' again on DVD).
Besides Dickens I also like Wuthering Heights, Tess of the D'Urbevilles, all things Gothic, Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare.... well loads of stuff really, but those works are perhaps my favourites.
Starting to ramble, so thats it for now.
Ciao.
Hi everyone!
First of all I would just like to say how glad I am that I finally found a site such as this.
So here's some info on me: I live in Sweden, absolutely love reading and sometimes writing too. My mom's german and father's swedish (not that it really matters), and I know both languages. My interests, besides reading, are hiking, fishing, camping and other outdoresy stuff. I simply love nature.
In short I'm really too be here, cheers!