Hi, and welcome everybody-Fat Elvis, 2X, Bibliophile, Scotty, JStuart, Acid, Silas. I've already seen some of your posts. Glad to see you leaping into the fray, as it were.
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Hi, and welcome everybody-Fat Elvis, 2X, Bibliophile, Scotty, JStuart, Acid, Silas. I've already seen some of your posts. Glad to see you leaping into the fray, as it were.
I love building machines too. I own a small company and make custom electronics for large companies. I love creating a machine in my imagination and making it real, step by step. From soldering to C++.
What kind of machines do you build? Are these your movie props?
Nice to meet you qim. Great avatar. I just finished the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I'm definitely going to read more Victor Hugo.
My name is Nick and its nice to meet everybody.
I found this forum while researching mental blindness. If you guys aren't familiar with the condition, it means you can't produce any mental images. It afflicts 3% of the population and the only known cause is hypoxia at birth. I was a blue baby and I'm mentally blind. I'm also the only avid reader I know who has this condition. Usually readers are the best visualizers, from the 5% of the population with an eidetic memory, who can read the word tree and count the leaves on it. To me its just a word, but I'm hoping to change that. I'd love to hear from anyone who is mentally blind, has info on it, or just wants to discuss it. Outside of my work in engineering, literature is probably my biggest interest and I want to learn to fully appreciate it.
I enjoy early 20th Century lit, especially the Lost Generation (Fitzgerald/Hemingway/Dos Passos), Depression generation (Bowles/Burroughs), and the WW2 generation (Kerouac/Mailer/Vidal). I also love logically constructed mysteries where you can use the details to figure out what's going on and predict the ending, like Philip K Dick's Gameplayers of Titan and Ray Chandler's Big Sleep. I also enjoy the entire spectrum of sci fi, from the hard (Verne/Clarke/Asimov/Pynchon) to the soft (Wells/Herbert/Dick). In all these genres I love big novels where you watch a group of characters interacting to produce a chain of events, like an evolving system. Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and Mailer's Naked and the Dead are good examples. Kerouac's Town and the City is a less organized, more impressionistic version of that.
Hello, my name is Cyreen, 16 years old form. Reading and writing are my favourite passtimes. I like reading/watching mangas, psychology, philosophy... ehh well I don't have too much to say about myself.. I'm still a beginner but I'm working hard to improve my skills.. My favourite authors are Edgard Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, Dan Brown and so many others.. I tend to like novels/tales/poems of mystery and the macabre and religious texts. That's all. ( Welcome to the new members )
Hello, I'm new. I had difficulty getting back to selecting "Authors" once I am in the Forums. How do I get back to "Authors" from "Forum"?
At the bottom of every page there's a link to the main site sitting between "Contact Us" and "Privacy Statement".Quote:
Originally Posted by Chungsoo J. Lee
Hi, my name is Lyn & I enjoy literary books primarily. Although Agatha Christie is a favorite too! I have just read Richard Yate's book, "Revolutionary Road." Somewhat what on the same lines, I am also reading Kerouac. I also love English Lit such as Thomas Hardy and George Elliot and Jane Austen. I am finishing Margaret Atwood's, "The Year of the Flood." I read "Alias Grace" before that. She is such a diverse writer!
My hobbies are gardening, jogging, working out, cats, and I worked in several libraries in my working years. I am 55, and not employed (would like to be), but planning my next move as to job searching.
This forum will be a nice change for me! Lyn
Hello everyone =D My name is Franznar12 and I'm new member of this site =D I wish you will be nice on me =D
I suppose this is a good place to post a first post. I guess I'll just describe who I am and why I'm here.
My name is Nick. I'm a part-time college student majoring in English/writing. I signed up for this site because I have a short story class this semester and it's been a long while since I've delved into that realm. I'm hoping I can receive (and contribute) helpful criticism before I have to read my stories aloud in class. :)
hi my name is levent and i am from turkey
Hello everyone, I'm new my name is Emma and I'm from England, United Kingdom.
As a traveling housewife and sometimes architect, I use all new moves to once again confront Harold Bloom's Western Canon. My goal is to finish this 42 page book list...once I thought I could do it in a year...but now I realize that would require reading multiple books simultaneously 24-7. Because I value sleeping, and some of these books pose a formidable challenge, my goal now is to try and finish the list within the next three years. Hopeful? Yes. Impossible? Maybe. Only time will tell. Currently I am working my way through Sam Shepard's Seven Plays...I'm not really the biggest fan. Any Shepard admirers out there?
Hello Dean W and welcome to the forum I read your intro and your goals you want to achieve can't help to feel that you have made your reading to sound much like a chore and it sounds like quite a frantic one ??? but maybe I have misinterperted your post??? anyway welcome to here!!!!!!
Hi Goodman,
I'm somewhat obsessive compulsive so what's not to love about an endless check-off list? No matter what life throws at me, no matter how many times I have to uproot and leave friends and family (my husband is in the military) there's always one constant: the list. It has given my reading a sense of structure and I have come across things I would have never discovered on my own like the Gormenghast trilogy or anything by William D. Howells...I write book reports after each book and post them to my reading blog (1001daysofdreaming.blogspot.com)...so I guess I can see how it sounds like a chore...but it's actually my favorite thing in the world. I obviously read things that are not on the list, recently I've been reading everything by Denis Johnson I can get my hands on....only to find myself wondering why I love his writing? What exactly has drawn me to him? I was kind of blown away by Jesus' Son...I also really like David Foster Wallace's essays...not a super fan of his fiction...I've been working my way through Infinite Jest and it sort of seems like and infinite waste of time. His fiction drips with insecurity, but he was inspired by Johnson, DeLillo (love) and Doctorow (don't love).
I've read all the Philip Roth on the list and in a recent New York Times review he said he was a fan of Johnson's work...I can see why. It's fun to feel like I know these people, that I can relate to what inspires them or that I can see the history they're building on. Basically I love reading. Anything and everything. And the canon gives me a sense of structure. There isn't really a timeline...I just like to read slightly more each year then the previous...last year I think I read 85 or so canon books...it might be hard to beat that. If I say my goal is to finish it within a year....eventually I will get to the year when that is achievable...I might be a super old lady by then though who has saved all the poetry to the end and spends her days sitting on a park bench slowly digesting Ashbery...
Hello, my name is Teetos and I'm new here.
Hello Im new :)