Petra, you sound the perfect person for lit net. Welcome and I hope you like our little place here.
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Petra, you sound the perfect person for lit net. Welcome and I hope you like our little place here.
Welcome,Petra.
I'm looking forward for those opinions.;)
hi, i am new. i am dave. i don't think there is anything else to say. i think you need a closed mouth and an open ear.
Hey :wave: I just joined. I love Dean Koontz and Stephen King, Lois Lowry and Harlan Coben. I make time in my day to read and i have been looking for a good book site and it looks like I've found one. By the way i also enjoy long walks on water and turning pages.
Hi all and Welcome.
Petra, You sound like a great asset to us, as do you all! Welcome!
Hello, I am Dave from California. Recently found this wonderfully big and cozy lit discussion site and wanted to be a member and chat with other book lovers.
Currently reading The Innocent by Harlen Coben and love it. Pretty good, almost finished with it. What's your favorite book Dave from California?
Well, since the little square box is saying that I've never posted yet, and I might as well start doing that by saying hi.. here we go ;)
:wave:
My name is Chantal, and I'm a student of English language and culture at the uni of Amsterdam. I'm in the first year now, so I'm probably often using this site for extra information on the texts I've got to read :). Unfortunately I haven't got a lot of time atm to spend online, but I'll try to do my best and read a lot of what is said here!
Cya!
:santasmil
1984, Frankenstein, and Brave New World are excellent books. Newer books I really enjoyed were Brooks' World War Z. But I can't truly say and I would probably rank lower on mileage than most on this site.Quote:
Originally Posted by bookfaerie
M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft are old standbyes and personal favorites.
Hello to all. Started to make my first post in the general section, but I saw the suggestion for intros ... so here I am.
Favorites - I always seem to end up back where I started, which was grabbing books off shelves in my Dad's collections, sticking mostly to "manly adventures in the wild." - London, Kipling, Service, Scott, plus "pulp" stuff like R.E. Howard, MacLain, etc.
Back into Reading - After many years of being "too busy to read," I'm trying to relocate that kid who used to read so much he'd walk home from school reading a book and walking at the same time. I'm not that bad anymore, but my latest gig is trying to chip away at some of the "great book lists" or "top 100 lists."
I just got done with ... Wuthering Heights, Light in August
Now I'm reading ... Anna Karenina, with Ivanhoe on deck (unless he gets replaced by your April book of the month ...)
Other hobbies & work - I edit and write for a living at present. I'm in Iraq and spend about half of my day editing and re-working/writing award narratives for my fellow Marines (Bronze Stars and other commendation medals ...).
That's me! Ma'asalam ...
Hi Dunkin Welcome to Here. :)
I always wanted to read Anna Karenina but I still have to wait till exams are over....
Hi,
Am a 24 yr old writer living in new delhi, india. just got this job in this town. thats right, am in a new town after a rather idylic childhood in goa. frankly, am a little inundated by the density of the threads posted here. dunno if im feeling like polishing my two cents right now. most of what i read was in my inglis bachelors. then i did some freewheel travelling and a few albums later, i was here. tell you the truth, i'm more interested in original writing and than discussing what happened to others. originality is not new, or so i believe. just that the numbers have their own identity besides their individuality. so i struggle on against the onslaught of life, idea and emotion (l.i.e) driven by some pecularities of my own.
Hi,
Am a 24 yr old writer living in new delhi, india. just got this job in this town. thats right, am in a new town after a rather idylic childhood in goa. frankly, am a little inundated by the density of the threads posted here. dunno if im feeling like polishing my two cents right now. most of what i read was in my inglis bachelors. then i did some freewheel travelling and a few albums later, i was here. tell you the truth, i'm more interested in original writing and than discussing what happened to others. originality is not new, or so i believe. just that the numbers have their own identity besides their individuality. so i struggle on against the onslaught of life, idea and emotion (l.i.e) driven by some pecularities of my own.
Hey, thought I would check this out. I ama accomplished poet having a few of my works published. As of right now though I am just trying to get through school. Living on art, passion, and of course HoCkEy!!!
Hi Decon I am from India too...Welcome to here.
Hi Hockeychick its great you having poetry published...welcome to the forum...
Hiya Vin,
Thanks for the reply. I like your signature. Tell me, what does one do around here forum? I see a maze of threads and wonder where 'now' fits. I want to write. Say a oemp or a rosty?
Hello everybody. I came across with this site today and you can not imagine how happy I am since I have a extreme thirst to to discuss pieces of writing and especially poetry.
My hobbies are few: reading, sports, and and above all writing poetry.
Do you agree or disagree with Emily Dickinson's point of view"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
:wave: Allow not a sneaky drop to tear
And pass thy eyes for eyes to spy.
A sky, though blue, in , clouds would fly
And a shot might pierce a bird and tear.
Hurt?Oh heart, I know you are;
Dwelling in darkness sure is hard.
Yet, do risk and play the last game card
Thy smile may shine like that cheerful star.:wave:
Please i need your opinnion
Hello. I'm Banville, named for John, not Theodore de. I live in a very small town on a very large island off the West Coast of Canada. I'm still finding my way around the forum. My favourite book is Fowler's Modern English Usage (the first edition, which may give you an idea of just how old & cranky I am). I'm looking forward to meeting you all.
Hello to all new comers :D
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Originally Posted by decon_blue
Hi Blue. Welcome ! :wave:
Dont be confused, you just need to figure out which area you want to focus on. If you have a story to tell there's a forum for it, similarly for poetry, religion and philisophy, or some discussion on specific author, there is a whole lot of books that are availabel online for reading, and if you want some light chat, there's the General chat forum. There is a Book Club too, when you can see which is the current read. There are discussions on that book, etc. You can start your own thread or you can also take part in and existing one if you want to contribute to the main theme of the topic. There's a lot that you can do here.
Just browse around and feel comfortable. :)
Btw, I am from Delhi too :D :D
Thanks ...anyway you'll be fine after sometime of looking at the topics.its easy .Like Madhuri said everything is arranged...Quote:
Hiya Vin,
Thanks for the reply. I like your signature. Tell me, what does one do around here forum? I see a maze of threads and wonder where 'now' fits. I want to write. Say a oemp or a rosty?
A few quick jottings about myself. 29-year-old, Danish, writing thesis on Margaret Atwood - primarily focussing on her 2003 dystopia "Oryx and Crake".
I hope I will get to discuss all and sundry stuff with a lot of interesting people with winding and inquisitive minds.
I would also like start off by quoting Lewis Hyde from his book "The Gift" (p. 252) - a quote to encourage both people doing critical detective work and people writing literature:
”In a Hermetic mood we will make a hundred intellectual connections only to find, when we check them with a less restless god [e.g. Apollo], that ninety-nine of them are useless”.
Give it up for Hermes.
Welcome to all members whom are new and all that are veteran!
Welcome Allan! I have only recently gotten my first taste of Atwood with Handmaids Tale and simply adored it, you must be having good fun with your thesis :D Hope you enjoy it here!
yeah so.. intro's
long
makes me want to write but i commonly go off on tangents
my name is Courtney i am a writer of poetry and hopefully*a novel*(203 pages in still going strong) i have had 6 of my poems published in england
i enjoy reading all sorts of books *duh* i am a little bit of a techno geek and when i fell into this site i was astounded that people were actually analyzing things not just writing what they WANT to happen i was so happy i almost cried i am currently in alaska but will be moving to maryland after i graduate*too cold* i am hoping to be a emergency medic ambulances and that sort... not much else to say
adios
in case you wonder what my name means it is werewolf blood lust in german
not enough letters for full moon blood lust which would have been vollmondblutlust ahh well
I'm flor. Nice to meet you all.
Welcome, werwolf and flor. I hope you like it here.
Hello everyone, I stumbled across this forum a while ago and have decided to finally show the courtesy of registering :D
I've recently gotten back into the pleasure of reading, after somewhat of an abstinance from any good literature (I can only claim I was possessed by the devil himself, shame on me.. ) but alas, I've found my senses and come running back once more.. so I've a lot of catching up to do and being but a mere young'un at seventeen I've already found so many great books I'm dying to get my teeth into, but am lacking the sufficent time to get through 'um all!
Gladly up for the task though and consequently you'll find me with my head stuck in a book at almost every spare moment, ahh it is good indeed to be back.
Currently reading Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, The Red and the Black (almost finished this one now) and as if I haven't overloaded myself already.. a little slice of some Thoreau and Emerson :)
Oh, and while I'm at it.. a very happy humpday to you all, my fellow bookwormies.
Welcome all. My name is Sarah, and as you can tell I love hockey (I know it might not be true love, but who cares). Along with hockey, I enjoy art (especially graphite and pencil sketches), poetry, writing in general,making people laugh, chocolate, and I could go on forever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and I can go on forever with this ever thing, too.
Welcome to all the newcomers..who posted after me ;)
Have a nice time..
Hello! I'm new here too. Like Takeahnase, I've been browsing around this forum for a while before I decided to register. Obviously, like so many of you here, I like reading and am trying to find more time to read. Currently, I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and C.S. Forrester's Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. I've also been reading Moby Dick (on and off). For some reason, I still can't finish the book! :)
welcome to you all! hope you all enjoy the site!
Hello everyone. I've been checking out these forums for quite sometime and finally decided to register. I'm currently living in Lansing, MI but hoping to move far, far away once i finish my undergrad. I havent had much time to read anything but textbooks and the occaisional ethnography for class since highschool but id like to get back into it. Fav authors would probably Bierce and Stapledon, but that has been known to change depending on my mood.
I'm also big on films. I used to be a film major for about a year so I know a ton of really obscure artistic/independent/foreign/silent movies. Done some photography as well. Somehow this has officially become the longest introduction i have ever given for myself, so i shall end it promptly.
I look forward to meeting you all.
Hi newbies. Hi dogfacejoe! what a name! what made u chose it?
http://litarture.blogspot.com/
thats my blog.
i havent spelt literature wrong, its a combination of art and lit!
id really appreciate it if people left comments with their forum names so i know whose who!
any ideas for my blog? does anybody have any creative work they done that i can put up?
Many thanks!
Hi Everyone
Just a quick greeting to all of you:thumbs_up
I have just finished reading 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens and have started 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. Both are wonderful.
So far in 2007 I have read...
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Gandhi - Autobiography
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Does anyone else feel that they have so much to read but on so little time?:bawling:
Thanks
Steve (Ominglot)
steve thats the story of everyones life! too little time too much to read
Hey,Steve welcome to the forum.:)
I get that feeling sometimes i just wish i can stop time so that i wouldn't have to get off a book to study.:sick:
I think Mark Twain once said something like 'Ive never let me schooling interfere with my education'