Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hi Everyone.
First of all sorry for my broken English. Not much time ago I started to study English because I wanted to read my favorite authors in their own language. After a while I thought a forum could be a good chance to improve my new skill, so I came across this forum and I read some verse and short story. I liked them. So this is why I am here now.
By the way this is my first writing in English.

About me I dare say that I can love many things within five minutes, several things within some day or some week, but there are just three things I love forever, that is my wife, books and good wine.
It was nice meeting you.

Hi I am new here and actually stumbled across this site by accident but I am so glad I did. I found my love for reading late in life and now I have my BA in Literature. I am currently working on my masters degree in Education and my teaching certificate for secondary education. I will be teaching literature one day very soon!!! I look forward to looking through this forum even more and seeing what everyone has to say!

Hello everybody!

My name is Michael Porter. 'Micky Fudge' was my father's pet name for me when I was a child. He also called me 'Mick Mack Fudgelorum', but I thought if I chose that as my username you might doubt my sanity. If I were compelled to name my favourite poem, I think I would have to choose 'New Year Letter' by W H Auden, but then I would regret not having chosen 'Strange Meeting', or 'Dover Beach', or Barnfield's 'Sonnet 11' or a whole host of others.

I'd like to share two poems with you. The first is one of the Harper's Songs from Ancient Egypt. It's addressed to a young man by a girl who loves him. Egyptian girls called their lovers their brothers.

Come to me, my brother,
Like a charger on the battlefield,
Like a bull to his pasture,
For the heaven is sending us love
Like a flame spreading through straw,
And desire like the swoop of the falcon.

The second poem comes from the Finnish Kanteletar. A girl longs for the return of her soldier:

Should my treasure come,
My darling walk by,
I'd know him by his footsteps,
Recognise him by his tread.

As mist I'd go out,
As smoke I would reach him,
As sparks I would speed,
As flame I would fly.

I'd kiss his mouth
Though doom stared him in the face,
I'd drape my arms round his neck
Though death had hold of it,
I'd stretch beside him
Though his side were all bloody.

I hope you like these poems.

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Originally Posted by Nightowlpip

Well Hi there!

I am new here, so I still need to get used to everything hehe
I am particularly interested in Charles Dickens, he is my favourite author. If anyone knows about some interesting threads concerning him please let me know hehe :D
A lot of people say that Terry Pratchett is the Dickens of the 21st Century, do you think so?

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Dickens is the Dickens of the 21st Century, Nightowlpip!

:cheers2:

Hi, my hobies include not much other than watching the odd football game and playing basketball, oh and music, i love anything to do with music. my favourite book is The catcher in the rye. dont know why. and this page seems to be getting alot of view and replies, anyway of spreading the word of my short story? Dannyp03 'New York' is the story :)

Hi, my name is Ally. I love victorian novels, especially those by Dickens and Brontës sisters, I'm nice to be here!

Hi, I'm new here.
I'm not a native English speaker, having great interest in reading literature,especially ancient works like The Iliad and The Odyssey, and I hope to improve my English and enrich my knowledge about literature from discussing and exchange ideas with other users here.

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hey all,

my name is alan. i am bookaholic. i have been sober for two hours [since breakfast, when i finished penelope lively's how it all began].
can't believe i've never joined a book forum before.
my favourite authors would be ray carver, thomas hardy, michael connelly, and john macgahern.
i particularly love detective novels [a guilty pleasure] and a well-written short story.

Hello, everyone! My name is Francisco, you may guess by my name that english is not my first language, and actually that's right. I am uruguayan, so I speak spanish. I am twenty years old, and I study literature. I want to learn from you, and express my views referring to some books, as well. I also would like to improve my english. I am fond of a lot of authors: Oscar Wilde, Homer, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Goethe, Sade, Dostoievsky, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Voltaire, and, frankly, I must be forgotting someone important to me also. I think I have no favourite author, I love too many of them. I like listening to music, especially gothic. I love Christopher Nolan's movies, especially Following and Memento. I hope to find this virtual space to be an interesting, delightful experience. Dark regards.

An initiation on a forum is always a mixed bag of feelings. You feel honored to be part of an intelligent organization of peoples, yet you feel a certain sense of nervousness to be starting from scratch. It is a hard emotion to put a finger on, but I do hope to contribute my thoughts and philosophy to this forum.

As this is an introductions forum, introductions are in order! :)

I am a student in middle school who loves to read. Don't underestimate that power of youth, as many adults have a jaded and irreversible pessimistic view on society and life. I am into motorsports, mainly, and like the noise and chaos which lifts you from the moody angst of philosophy and ideas. However, I do like to explore a philosophical side of myself. I like graphic design, as in typography and computer art, as well as computer science, reading (obviously), philosophy, psychology, and studying different views of human life. I am also a huge dog fan! :wink5:

I feel like in a society of deep thinkers and readers it is okay to be a homosexual. I'm gay and I really don't care what others think about that, as long as it doesn't limit my life in a way that is meaningful. I'm not out of middle school, and you can imagine the difficulty of being openly gay in middle school, especially being a boy. I think being shunned from some groups really was good in a way, because it made me think about the philosophical, hidden side of society and gave me some more thinking time. So in a sense, I'm glad I came out, because it gave me some time to think things over.

Being in 7th grade, I am probably vastly underread compared to some of you veterans on this forum. I frequently skip around books, but I've come up with a regime to sticking to one book. The book I'm reading right now is To Kill A Mockingbird. I've put Atlas Shrugged off until I'm finished with a couple others, because everyone knows how long it is. Again, I'm vastly underread, so here are some classic books I have read, and what I've thought about them...

1. 1984 (George Orwell)
My favorite book of all time. Undisputed king of dystopian science fiction, my favorite topic. It changed my outlook on life forever.

2. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Orwell occupies my top 2 on my list because of his fierce writing style, rather like mine! This is a great, stirring book as well.

3. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Had to read this book for school. I skipped 1/4 of it, so my information may be a little bit off, but I did love this book. I only skipped for the sake of getting it done in time. It was very good and symbolistic, from what I've read in it.

4. Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
Probably the most relaxing and down-to-earth book I've read in a long time. It is a very light, relaxing read, and is very beautiful in it's language, too.

5. The Catcher In the Rye (Salinger)
I need to come back to this one. I read it when I was 10, and didn't fully understand it. I need to come back to it, and maybe I'll get it.

6. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Not a huge fan of Steinbeck... dragged on forever. Just for the sake of knowing what happened at the end, I used SparkNotes! :wink5: It was extremely boring.



Of course, I've read many other books than that, but I like to focus on the classics. Some books I plan to read and discuss are, in no particular order...

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Brave New World
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Atlas Shrugged
5. Catch-22
6. The Great Gatsby
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. East of Eden
9. The Joy Luck Club
10. Slaughterhouse-Five
11. Things Fall Apart
12. A Clockwork Orange (if my parents will let me...)
13. War and Peace
14. Shakespeare's Works
15. Homer's Works
16. Beowulf
17. Grendel

Dystopian literature is my favorite genre. :wink5:

See you on the forums!

Hi everyone, i am Foxx and i just joined you. I do hope this here is gonna be a great place to be. Love you all!

Hi everyone. New here. A great fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Herriot, and Damon Runyon to name but a few among many. I dare not leave out Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde from the many category, however. Presently I'm enjoying 'Just Enough Jeeves' ...but is there ever? Thankfully this tome is upwards of 700 pages so I anticipate many happy times enmeshed in prickly situations with the likes of Bertie Wooster, Bingo, Boko, Uncle Percy, the twins...and on we go.

Lindy

Welcome all! So happy to have you here :)

My name's Jake and I just recently got into reading again. I am reading Franny and Zooey for school and am soon reading Hemingway's short stories and East of Eden