Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hello ladies and gentlemen.

Hmm. A little about me. Well I'm a twenty-year-old from Canada. I am currently in grade twelve. Yes, I should have been graduated a long time ago, but instead I dropped out to care for my grandma. She had two strokes, which left her left side slightly paralyzed.
Unfortunately, two years ago, she passed away. It took me one year to really get over her death. Then one day, I woke up realizing that I had to get an education instead of sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.
Anyway, in my free time, I like to write, just thoughts and ideas, not anything spectacular, but I absolutely love reading other peoples work. Another hobby I enjoy is singing. Wow, I can sing my little heart out. Haha. One time I actually won first place in a karaoke contest.
And that's about it.

Talk to you later people! :D

Hmm...well, this is awkward. I've been posting madly away and just now tore myself away from the lit and philosophy threads to find an introduction thread. D'oh! (cf. Homer Simpson)

I stumbled upon this site while looking for some research material on Heart of Darkness and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and I chanced to see the "Forums" tab and, well, I was gone without a second thought. I have wanted, for months, to find a place like this to discuss literature and philosophy, and I am looking forward to many conversations with all of you.

Don't know what else to say - I teach AP English in Southern California, love Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Sandra Cisneros and CS Lewis, Medieval literature and modern poetry. There is nothing better than engaging in thoughtful dialogue with thoughtful people - so this should be fun -

"The game's afoot!" :D

I spent alot of time looking for a decent website for book lovers and finally here it is. I am an ex New Yorker currently living in Oakland,CA. Graduated from S.U.N.Y Purchase in 1987 with a BA in Literature.
Right now it is morning, still quiet in the world. I look out my window and see two trees, one barren leafless, the other a tall noble pine tree still green despite December. I love them both.
Oh well...out of coffee.:)

ps
what I am currently reading:
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson.
A short novel about life aboard a slave ship and the experiences of an ex-slave who is working on the ship. It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1990.

"I" The Creation of a Serial Killer by Jack Olsen.
This book is not for everyone. This true crime work is important because the sociopath is the one telling the story. Olsen interviewed Keith Hunter Jesperson for countless hours, read tons of documents about the crimes, about the victims and about Jesperson's life. Then he basically became Jesperson and wrote from the killer's mind. I used to dismiss the true crime genre as just a bunch of poorly written novels meant to titilate but not educate. I have not exactly become a convert but some of the key writers in this field do shed light on some complex, troubling and controversial topics.

Anyone who has read either book...or just has thoughts about the books...feel free to send me a post/email.

tata
Ghideon:yawnb:

welcome all:)

Hi guys I just got in ....like 3 or 4 postings ago. For now all I can say is I LOVE IT. I also love writing poetry and singing and listenig to people say all they have to say and making some 'noise' with buddies. Most important: Am proudly ...very proudly african

hello all :wave:

Shadow... film studies? ? http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a015.gif when did they rename media studies??
What exam board are you doing.?

I am a newbie as well so if I accidentally say something offfensive or wrong on a forum, plz don't bite me head off.:banana:

I'm Bee,19 from Thailand. I'm obsessed with both British and American liturature.Now I'm studying in the Faculty of Arts,Chulalongkorn University.I will choose English as a major and Spanish as a minor. I do love reading novels.I read Oliver Twist by Charles Dicken,The Professeur by Charlotte Bronte,Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,the Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne and The War at Troy by Lindsay Clarke.And now I'm reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
I'm very glad to be a member of online-literature.com.It is one of my good cunsultants.
Anyways,I will visit this site always so that I can know many members as many as I can.

57 ,Sas welcome both:)

Hi all!

Have a nice time over here! :)

hello newbies!:wave:

haii.. i'm arif. when i was browsing i came across this website that think is very useful in the study of literature. currently i'm doing english language and literature in the international islamic university, malaysia. thi's my first visit here. just wanna hai... :)

Hi, arif.

Apa kabar?

I'm from Indonesia :wave:
Welcome to the forum.

Hey to ALL!!
I have been getting ready for my students' end of semester and haven't had the time for personal outside pleasures. I have missed the search for the many infinite questions of life (and all of those others.) Glad to be back!!
Gordon

Ha ha, welcome back Gordon! It's been apparent around here that there is a lot of end of semester panic going on, (lots of homework/essay/paper help questions being posted) my condolences :p

Ohhhhhhh Yesssssssssssssssss!

Hiya, I`m Waph from Lebanon - not the American Lebanon of Maine!
I`m 19 years old. I really was happy when I knew this forum of literature. I`ve been visiting it for quite some time, but registered in here this evening.

I felt attracted by some posters, really friendly.
I adore writing, it`s my only salvation, yet I don`t believe i`m a good writer. Who cares as long as i`m loosing out my anguish.

I lived isolated, I barely interrelated my life to my parents`. Recently, I got new friends and lost the best ones, which made me extremely disappointed - next to my pessimistic view of life.. I had childhood parental problems, and yes my dad was abusive.. maybe still.. a few of my writings are addressed to my mom..
Anyway I just didn`t know how to introduce myself.. :P

I really hope I get to know you guys in here..


Excuse my grammatical mistakes.

I forgot to mention, i`m bloody into Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe.

Welcome Poetess. I hope to get to know you too. I hope you like it here. I'm bloody into Emily Dickenson too.

Hello everyone, just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I've got a BA in English Lit and currently work in corporate communications. I love reading and do a little creative writing in my spare time. One of the worst things about working in the corporate world is that not many people read for fun, so there aren't too many people here to discuss literature with. So I'm just thrilled to have found this forum!

I enjoy all forms of writing, but novels are my favorites. Some authors I really enjoy are Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Hunter S. Thompson, Jose Saramago, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Neil Gaiman, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isaac Asimov, Dostoevsky, just to name a few. Couldn't list them all. :)

Looking forward to reading (and hopefully contributing to) some interesting discussions here.

Welcome Charas, great to have you here. As a teacher, it is always my hope that students find reading fun for themselves. It doesn't always happen. In one of my classrooms, I had over 500 volumes for them to look through and only had a few who would even pick them up.

I have found this to be a great place with many great minds and a wealth of diversity. Enjoy.

Hello Charas, welcome in here! I`m certain it`s magnificent.
Keep in touch!

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Welcome Poetess. I hope to get to know you too. I hope you like it here. I'm bloody into Emily Dickenson too.

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I`m so glad about it, thank you Virgil! Is it your real name?

hello everyone...I found this site by accident a few days ago when I was looking for a map of Russia circa 1812 so I could plot out the comings and goings in the book War and Peace which I just finished reading. No map here, but clearly lots of interesting people and ideas. It seems like it is not a slam kind of place where people would put others down. I'm enjoying reading the various posts. I'm 61 yrs old..."that guy is really old" My wife and I live on an island in the San Juan Island group, which is in the waters of northwest Washington State next to Canada and Vancouver Island. I drove bus in Seattle for 28 years until I was old enough to retire. When I retired we moved here, I took care of my mother here until she died a year ago in January. I love to read. I read a lot on my breaks when I was driving bus, classics, Melville's Moby Dick, what ever turns up from American lit, and I have always liked reading Latin American authors like Carlos Fuentes. I have only a high school education graduating in 1964. I was a political activist especially in my youth. Civil rights, anti war, peace and other causes which still interest me. Biographies interest me too if they arn't to tedious. The ones I don't like seem to revelle in tracking what someone ate for dinner and who said what to excess. yuk. I have 5 grown children the youngest is 25 yr. My other main interest is music. I've been trying to learn to play saxophone for the last few years. I have a small group that I play with. It is probably the thing that keeps me most involved. I have to really work to learn music. We are learning mostly jazz tunes, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and others, and also some Klezmer and other stuff. our object is to have fun and learn new stuff, and we do. I'm very fortunate to be where I am and to be able to do what I like after all those years of working to support family. I split a lot of wood here, literally and figuratively (sp?) We have a very old cat named Gramshi who sleeps all the time. That is the intro, short form. Nice to meet you all.

Hi poetess, lostdog and Gordon Comstock! Welcome to the forum folks! :)

Thanks for the welcome, Pensive. There is a lot for me to learn on this site, including how to use it well. i looked to read the short stories yesterday, but couldn't find them. Also, it seems that if one asks questions about lit, more likely to get responces. I guess that's easy enough, but where to ask them?

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Thanks for the welcome, Pensive. There is a lot for me to learn on this site, including how to use it well. i looked to read the short stories yesterday, but couldn't find them. Also, it seems that if one asks questions about lit, more likely to get responces. I guess that's easy enough, but where to ask them?

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lostdog, you are found. Just ask and these wonderful folks will help you get to where you are going. Need something, they will take care of you.

Not sure if I am doing this correctly but...HI! I joined this site to learn. After years in an alcoholic haze it is a joy to see the sun. So many things I seek to understand. But...onward and upward as they say. Anything else...Just ask.

All the best,

Jack

hello, my name is stephie just signed up, i was just wondering if anyone would refer me to a good interesting book to read. i just read Smack and i'm finishing up on Love Janis. Its Janis Joplin's biography. i'm all about music and such
it'd be cool if someone replyed cause i'm not sure on how these threads work out thanks! peace

Thanks for the kind welcome Gordon and Poetess. There's so much to read here that I'm sure it will be a while before I have anything to add. But it should be a fun ride!

Cheers everyone,
charas

Hi Jack! Welcome to LitNet. I'm sure,after already seeing your very nice poem, you'll make an excellent contribution to this forum! :) What type of Lit do you like?

Welcome calientestephie! THere are hundreds and hundreds of good books out there, what type of genra(horror,sci-fi, historical,etc.) are you interested in? Have a nice stay at LitNet!

Hello, everyone. I'm a high school student with a penchant for reading, and stumbled onto this forum purely through chance. It was a great coincidence, because I've always wanted to read and participate in broad, critical discussions — can't be sure yet if my needs will be satisfied by this place, but I have a good feeling.

I'm not terribly well read, unlike, I'm sure, many people here, but I do try to read most days. With any luck, my participation around here will increase with time.

why raiv? hmmmmm

Welcome all.

yo yo yo :D

Hello!
I came across this website by accident, and got excited about it instantly. I read a lot of books but hardly ever get the chance to discuss them with anyone, so I'm happy if I get to do that here.

I'm from Finland, so my native tongue is Finnish. Sometimes it gets hold of me and my English grammar gets all mixed up -- I appologize in advance, because it's bound to happen some time when I post something here.
Otherwise I can speak English practically as well as Finnish, because my education has always been in English; however, this year I've changed to a Finnish-speaking school. (My mother was getting worried about my Finnish skills...)

My interests include art, literature, animals and history. I'm interested in languages also; I'm taking French at school. My favorite book perhaps is Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, but the range of books I read is wide.

Well, I hope I can eventually become active in the conversations going on on this website. :) I'm usually not the active kind in forums and such, but I'm hopeful about this one.

Hi all! Welcome to the forum. :)

soleann, I myself got education from an English school (in later years) which has spoiled my Urdu writing quite a lot. My teachers used to love my essays in an Urdu medium school (my previous school). Here as well, they like it but whenever I compare the standard of Urdu in both schools, I feel that my previous school was much better. I hear quite a lot of things from my mother for my poor "written Urdu." I make mistakes in writing the alphabets though I can construct really good sentences in it because I speak it on daily basis. No one uses English as spoken language over here actually.

Oh, I do like Wuthering Heights a lot as well. I hope that you will enjoying have discussions and some chit-chat over here. :)

Hey, I'm not sure how I found this place. I typed in something about Paradise Lost on google, I think. Anywho, I'm here, and it's only a few days away from Christmas!

EM, this site is a piece of Paradise and knowledge itself x)

Welcome.

Welcome english major! Im sure you will like it here, I'm quite addicted myself :p What type of literature are you into?

hi! uzziel here

i'm new, posted one here because i haven't had any posts yet:) might make a good start with the intro nthread

the people here are way too cool, hope i could fit in.....

have a great day everyone!