Hey Nlucky. Welcome to the site.
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Hey Nlucky. Welcome to the site.
Hey everyone. It was recommended to me that I read "How to Read a Book."
In doing so I am developing an intense desire to begin a journey through a western, and hopefully eastern, canon chronologically. I know that's an incredibly huge endeavor and I"m in no rush.
So, I thought it would be right for me to start here.
Thoughts, advice, and considerations greatly appreciated.
Welcome bsquare! I'm a great fan of reading without a rush, as well as Eastern and Western literature. It is a great adventure, and I wish you all the best on it. Reading chronologically is going to take a very long time, though, since there is so much. It can take years sometimes just to read just a handful of some of the older stuff. You might do better to focus on the novel, and work forward from there. Another approach would be to "time travel" by starting with a book from the 21st century, then reading one from the 20th, 19th, 18th, etc. In theory you could get all the way back to Gilgamesh that way. It would be quite a journey. Or you could just read various classics here and there like some of us do. Good luck whichever road you take, and again, welcome to the site. :)
Hi everyone. I am new to the site. I am very interested in literature, specifically those in the western canon. I enjoy reading (and rereading) shakespeare and chaucer, as well as the ancient greek tragedies. Furthermore, I enjoy reading texts on maths and physics (I am currently reading Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy and Huygen's treatise on light). I am currently thinking of reading either Goethe's Faust or Don Quixote. I am in middle school but after this summer will go to highschool. Hope to use this site to get insight on any random question on literature I have!
Welcome Robert. I love your avatar--Cicero, I think? It sounds like you have an outstanding background in literature, especially for a Middle School student. You are very welcome here. Please don't be shy about speaking up. :)
Hi all,
I wanna write a lot, put it all here, and get my stuff reviewed. And eventually get better at writing. so pls pls help. Thanks a lot!! cheers!
Hey ho, heyho! Welcome. If you post it, they will criticize.
Hi everybody. I'm Parisa from Iran. I study master of English literature and these days Im occupied writing my thesis on Foucauldian study of post colonial novels.
I found Foucault so much dazzling but at the same time puzzling:-)
I found out this forum recently and joined today hoping that it would help me gqin the necessary data needed to pack for understanding this theorician.
nice to be here.
Hello ya'll. I have posted a few stories and poetry threads, and I would love it if people give me feedback on them.
Hey Bjorn, welcome to the site (or welcome back, I guess). My advice is to put a comment like this on each of those threads. People probably just missed them the first time.
Greetings!
This was the first community that popped up on my search so I decided to join. Looking forward to reading and hopefully participating. Cheers!
Welcome Xev. Hope it's participation, but enjoy yourself in any case. :)
Hi all, I've had a lifelong hatred for literature and reading in general, mainly because I was too impatient to absorb the material and/or had too short an attention span to appreciate it. Well, after suffering through countless literature/writing courses in my education, I've decided to give it a second try. A little background: classical music (the study and performance of) was the foremost passion of my life, but I've chosen to give it up because of personal reasons and time constraints. So this will be my opportunity to move on to another type of art, an art that is totally strange and frightening to me. Perhaps there were things about literature that I've overlooked, and will now come back to enlighten me.
I am currently reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Why these two books? On a whim, and by chance, these were the first two books I saw while dusting off a few boxes in the garage one day.
Pleasure to be here.
Well if you hate reading I definitely would not start with The Idiot.
Yeah no kidding. Clopin's right, The Idiot is not a great starting place. The Great Gatsby or Sense and Sensibility or Chekhov's short stories or Alice Munro or lots of others would be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rei