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Hi, everyone!

I am very happy to have found this forum. I love classical literature, with Homer, Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, Proust and Kafka being my favourite authors. I hope to make many interesting discussions here!

hello and here is a bit about me. i am an almost 30 year old man and i have done a lot of different things in my life but these days it is just all about books. i work part time in a very large bookstore on academic nonfiction titles but i have a BA in literature and almost all of my reading has been in fiction. i am most attracted to what is called literary fiction but i enjoy all adult genres including contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy, horror, crime, or almost anything at all. i love reading literature that attempts to challenge humanity to go further in art than what has been previously possible, or even transcends previous limitations, and thinking about all of the complex issues surrounding these sorts of ambitions. i read very slowly and feel embarrassed that i have not read more but this is a concern i am always trying to address! i am currently lucky to be able to take some time out from the general demands and expectations of life to pursue my interest in reading and i am trying to work my way through "big" books, having just read Joyce's Ulysses and now about a third through Moby Dick. i am a very introverted person so mostly spend my time alone by choice but also appreciate human perspectives other than my own and look forward to discussing books with you all on the forum.

Hello! My name is Sharayah. I'm really here to just broaden my mind, also I'm having troubles with my Final English paper for this semester and need a beginning idea for my topic. It seems to always be the hardest thing about the paper. Aside from that here's a little about me;
I really enjoy drawing of all sorts, but my fingers prefer a paint brush with watercolor. I seldom hunt, but when I do my buck is always bigger then the boys', also I prefer salmon fishing above other sorts of the sport. I love and have coached volleyball and softball. I'm a part-time housekeeper and a full-time student on my way to a Bachelors in Graphic Design. Hopefully by next year I'll have my CNA license and move up in the world a little bit. As long as there's progress there's a life to be lived.

Hello. I am a lit geek. Not many others here in my small town Texas existence--no others actually. Ideas are my favorite entertainment. I like to have them, hear them, argue over them and live the good ones. I haven't had to time to look around the site much, hoping this will be an idea sort of place!

Hi everyone, I was just browsing the web for the "types of characters" found in plays and happened upon this site. I am an English language and Literature teacher and I do look forward to this new experience.

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Have a very calm and happy thanksgiving day everybody. Love you all.

Hi,
I'm a fan of Umberto Eco, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, all things medieval, and of course Dante. Glad to be here.

Hello everybody..
This is really a nice forum to discuss our issues.I am new to this forum.I think i will enjoy staying here for long..:wink5:

Greetings brethren and sisters in book-loving!

I am a twenty-something recent college grad who is working in office - hope this is temporary and eventually I will save enough for grad school. Though my undergrad training (that is quite shallow) is in social sciences, I have also developed an interest in literature and philosophy gradually. My favorite author is Flannery O'Connor. I also speak Chinese (but cannot write in it well) since I spent a few years there in childhood (those years also made me still infatuated with juvenile anime, my guilty pleasure).

Though I know it may be impolite or demanding to ask for favors on my first day (sorry!), but I encountered the forum when I am seeking help on a passage in the Toni Morrison novel I am reading, Sula. I posted here at http://www.online-literature.com/for...orrison-please! and if y'all have read Toni Morrison or is familiar with her style please help me out!

Thank you all, and I look forward to discuss books and share views/thoughts in this great forum! :)

hello all,

My name is Mitch and right now I am reviving my habits of younger years in reading fiction. Recently read some Kafka, some Joyce, some Wolfe, and currently being made somewhat melancholic by the early chapters of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: though my mind detects the illuminations in Charlotte's work and continues on.

Favourites from the past were: Kerouac, Kundera, Orwell, Salinger, Tolkien, Defoe, Stevenson,,,. I forget the rest but surprise myself how many things were read before entering non-fiction decades.

ok, best wishes to all,
Mitch

Hello everyone.

I'm Mat, and I've been addicted to books for many years now. I am currently trying to broaden my horizons, and hope being a part of this forum will help me in that endeavour. I hope to see you around.

Mat Knight

Hello everyone.

My names Alex, and I'm a recently published author. Fear not, this isn't a plug.. but like many of you I can see I'm keen to broaden my horizons and hear other peoples opinions and recommendations!

I'm an avid thriller reader in general with James Patterson probably being my favourite, I've always enjoyed the Alex Cross novels (not sure about Tyler Perry taking over from Morgan Freeman in the new film adaptation...hardly like for like). My book is also a thriller, should you want to know more about that or anything indeed, you know where to find me :)

Alex McCarthy

hi
i dont read much these days, but i have really loved some of the things i've read, and mind you, they're not all literally classified as literature.

HI everyone,
So.. I just happened to stumble over this site and I can tell already it's amazing! I mean, a site entirely devoted to Reading and writing - I love it!
My name is Helene, I'm a 25-Year-old high school teacher in Denmark, and the reason I chose the profile name Irving39 is because I'm at this very moment halfway through John Irving's "Last Night in Twisted River" (that book is to die for, btw).
See you around!