Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

hello everyone :)

Greetings everyone, Mr Peter Donnelly here. I've just joined and I'm looking forward to participating in many literary discussions.

Hi everyone i'm new here.

My username is just fake so my name is paon which pronounced as "par-own".

English isn't my first language so i'm learning to become a better English user.
I only wrote stories that involves fighting and those superpowers and stuffs like that. I do have an ambition to become a writer but i know my writing isn't good enough so i want to share my art. I want to learn from mistakes.

This is my wish to everyone, i hope if there's anybody read my stories, tell me if there's anything wrong or grammatical mistakes. :biggrin5: :coolgleamA:

hi all and sundry.
My name is Chris and i live in Hampshire England ,i,ve been retired from engineering for 4 yrs now ,and thought i would try to find something to do ,i play scrabble alot worldwide and have an interest in woodwork.all the children are grown up and married WHOOPIE ,so i seem to have lots of tome on my hands ,anyway hello to you all and thank you for letting me join your forum, chris:banana::banana::banana::banana:

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon this forum when i was looking for an analysis of he poem "Anecdotes for fathers" by William Wordsworth. And I am really glad I did. :)

I can very much relate to "Virgil's" Intro. I just finished my engineering and I am going to start working in an IT company Tata Consultancy Sevices as software engineer next month onwards. But my true love has always been and will always be literature. I read a lot, classics as well as contemporary, prose as well as poetry.
I was also torn between doing what my parents expected of me and what i really truly wanted. In the end I decided that my dad's logic of having a professional degree made sense and so I chose engineering and here I am. I painfully pulled myself through the final year and I have been wondering if it was the right choice. Anyway I intend to do something about my passion for literature. And Virgil, You inspired me.
So like I said I love reading. My last classic was Shakespeare's "Taming of the shrew" which was very difficult to get in print so I had to get an e-book. That brings me to "I hate ebooks!". I think there is nothing better than the feel of a really good hard cover book. :D My last book as such was "Chanakya's Chant" by an Indian author Ashwin Sanghi.
Currently I am reading "Lyrical Ballads and other poems" a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both of them are my favourite poets. I am still a beginner and sometimes I have problems Inferring the hidden meanings of Poems and thats why I am really glad I found this forum.
I am also a self-taught poet thus the pseudonym, Dpettypoetess.:)
I hope I will be able to understand better the world of literature in which I wish to find a place for myself someday and also be able to contribute as per my capability.

happy everyday.

Aiya everyone. I'm just a regular student who loves to read. Fantasy and Science fiction are my realms of interest, but I'm open to other genres as well. I'm also very interested in the Quenya language. I hope to get to know people here and become part of the community!

Hello everyone,
I stumbled upon this forum while looking for something about 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. I'm not really a very bright student but I love to read books and play chess. I am a loner so books are my best friends. I'm currently reading 'The Life Of Pi' by Yann Martel. I don't know what I'm going to study after finishing High School. I am just "Floating straight obedient to the stream" aimlessly. I hope I'll make friends here and become a part of the community. I am 18 so I wish to meet other teens here.

This site was near the top of the page when I googled "literature forums." Most people in my regular walk of life don't read much, or don't see it as more than casual entertainment. I started to wonder if I wasn't stunting myself, somehow, by not living in a place where it really mattered. It seems unlikely that I'll find an atmosphere like the one I want in my regular life. I've got an English BA; I'm unemployed; I make myself read history but I don't like to. Lately I've gotten really into Iris Murdoch.

A little about me:

I think Moby Dick is hilarious and laugh out loud everytime I read it. My wife laughs at me for laughing out loud at Moby Dick.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are great, but so is Bulgakov. Mark Twain very well may be god. Margaret Atwood is a lion of American literature. Jane Smiley weaves beautiful stories. Kurt Vonnegut has the human raced pegged. Julian Barnes's prose is fantastic. Herta Müller's novels are absolute poetry on page. Jasper Fforde's imagination and wit are off the charts. China Mieville's incredible. Catch 22 is worth two or three readings. Lewis Carroll was a madman, but a brilliant one. I cannot read Kafka's Trial before bed. The Martian Chronicles is better than Fahrenheit 451. Tom Robbins makes me think by making me laugh.

I like to write about my black lab/mutt Tico and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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I'm an attorney by training and by necessity, but an author by habit. My novel The Valley of Fire is a dark, humorous look at our inability to understand ourselves.

Cheers,
Brett Cottrell

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My name is Paul and I've been reading and writing literature for as lon as I can remember.
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I hope you enjoy. And please feel free to comment.

I didn't know a url wasn't allowed. Heres my first chapter

Share my writing

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I want to share my writing with as many people as possible. Therefore I will publish my latest work as its written. Here is the first instalment. All comments, positive or negative, will be gratefully received.


The Birkeesh dilemma; dreams revisited.

A story that must be told.

Chapter 1

She stopped, swayed, listening for some obscure justification. Was this real, or a dream mocking her complacency. She didn't know, or even care! Only one thought entered her mind, the thought that she had avoided for too long. She feared that step, that ignomous step, not because it might be her last, but because it could end her journey. "Damn , damn damn!, her senses railed, fearing the vortex of despondency. Could one have ever imagined it would be so, she pondered, returning briefly to her time with the others. "What would they do"? "What would they say"? "Did they ever really care?". The vortex grew.



Rain lashed, gusts pillaging earth's autumn bounty. Cold, cold, cold, and heavy, like a pregnant swift. A capricious love indeed. Her mind wandered ,drifting to time within time, then time without time, then back. It was nice. If only Beckett had loved her as she had loved him. Did it have to be so? Perhaps. But it didn't really matter anymore. She had made her bed. Now she would sleep!

hello there... i'm as fresh as a dried fish here..haha..i've just registered really...nice to be here...i'm a filipino working in korea as a missionary-teacher...i'm a graduate of BSE-english but i haven't taken the board exam yet..they say it's hard..and since i graduated 4 years ago,i need to refresh my mind with the english things...hope this site could help me...

I savor the Shakespearean soliloquies of life with wonderment and awe. I have a passion for the subtle and often overlooked spiritual realm. I find inspiration in reflecting, journaling, listening to audio books and reading the written word.

Some of my favorite writers are Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen and Victor Hugo. Their narratives have helped me see the sub-currents of human interactions as well as self study. You can say they have also been my mentors in helping me to question convention, the media and consumerism.

I hope to discover one or two kindred spirits here.

Hi guys.

Though I studied an English and Media studies joint degree 8 years ago, I never read again until the last 6 months. I'm an EFL teacher in Madrid, I DJ in my spare time and I decided recently that if I could love cinema and music, why not lit too? So I've been tearing through as much classics as I can (fortunately I shipped a load of my books from Uni over here as well as my records!).

So far I've read:

Emma (Jane Austen)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Ulysses (James Joyce)

and I'm now on Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

I'm far from the most widely read dude but the plan is to change this and maybe teach lit back in the UK once I've read enough (I've got a long way to go I think). Really enjoying all this so far, especially as I can read them for fun without a course pressuring me to study and analyse them intensively.

I've checked out the brilliant discussions going on on the said titles and I think this forum's the place to be.

Much love!