Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Welcome dcdingo!
Sounds like you're interested in some really good genres! If you haven't read it already, I reccomend The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood as a great work of spec fic.

Hello!

My name's Gilly.

I'm a theatre student in an arts college. Deeply torn between my love for literature, theatre, philosophy and psychology. I thought theatre would encompass all my interests rather beautifully.

Unfortunately, the only arts college on the tiny island of Singapore has a rather lacking literature module, not because of the lecturer, but because of the lack of interest in the module by the students.

So, I found this forum in a desperate attempt to reclaim my sanity and wits. I hope to learn more about literature from the many intellectual arguments presented here.

Stuff i have read and like to read:
Greek Tragedies, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Homer, Iliad, The Oresteia
Shakespeare Comedies, Love Labours Lost, Midsummer Night's, Tragedies, Othello, Macbeth
Poetry, W.E. Henley, Robert Frost, John Donne, T.S. Eliot
Science Fiction, Asimov, StarTrek:Voyager
Philosophy, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates
Plays by Alan Bennett, History Boys, Talking Heads

Current Current Love: W;t, By Margaret Edson

Hi all.
This is SC Faulkner from Los Angeles.
Hope to babble much and read more.

Just found this forum. Love Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Edith Wharton, or Honore' de Balzac.

I am a piping designer.

Other hobbies include Baroque Opera, especially Handel. I sing many pieces written for castrati. I am a countertenor. Pleased to be here.

Hi ~ Reading is my passion, so here I am! :) I'm basically an eclectic reader, but I'm partial to British detective mysteries. History is another favorite genre, especially biographies. I enjoy poetry as well. My favorite poets are Rainer Maria Rilke, William Blake, Langston Hughes, and Sylvia Plath. At the moment I'm reading Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Frasier.

Nice to meet you! :wave:

hi there!
im leigh from
the Philippines...
actually....
im not really sure
why i sign up here...
i have no interest in reading...
before...
but after i read Animal Farm by George Orwell...
i really got curious...
so i search the net and found this site...
i think people here can help me
discover more about literature....
i really pleased to be here...

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Originally Posted by amifielei_007

hi there!
im leigh from
the Philippines...
actually....
im not really sure
why i sign up here...
i have no interest in reading...
before...
but after i read Animal Farm by George Orwell...
i really got curious...
so i search the net and found this site...
i think people here can help me
discover more about literature....
i really pleased to be here...

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Hi! I'm new, too. Glad to meet you! :)

Hi there.

I'm also new...

I'm currently studying literature in Aberdeen, and I'm also interested in philosophy. In particular how the two can come together in literary theory.

My favourite writers include William Blake, both the Shelleys (the romantics in general really), Joyce and Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yeats, Milton...I could go on but I wont.

The only thing I'm not keen on literature-wise are the beat poets. Although I haven't read many of their works as whenever I do I don't enjoy it and this doesn't encourage me to continue, so if someone puts forward a good recommendation I'm sure I could be persuaded yet.

Hi Lady D! Welcome from a fellow newbie!:)

Hi everyody my name is sylvia. I dont even know properly how a computer works. But this i know i need some answers. And hope to get them here.
IS it posable the angels could have helped build the phyramids. I almost want to say yes seeing they were able to have children with the woman of the earth that were gaints. pls help

Please can someone reply to me on my email i have no idea what to do here.
[email protected] I would be grateful. I dont go to church as i believe no church can get me into heaven. But i do study alot. And i do know God loves me. I nearly lost my husband 4 times God carried us. You have no idea

Hello everyone

I'm relatively new here. I used to be an avid guest on the forums but traveling took me away from a steady internet connection for a while. Now that I'm somewhat stationary I look forward to getting more involved with Lit.net. I'm currently studying literature and philosophy in upstate New York, but of course they follow me when I'm traveling as well.

Welcome Pseudo! Good to have you here.

hi every one


im mai from K.S.A , i love the english language as i study it in the university


i want to meet i deal with native speaker to share our experiences , cluture,


and many things



i dream to be proficient speaker in english as well as my tongue language



watching moveis , and literature my favourite hoppies in general .




accept my passing




thank u so much

hi guys. I am new here,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I am cool girl ,very interested in English literature, I hope I can enjoy here:thumbs_up :thumbs_up ,I am writing poems and like to know your veiws about them......please do a comment because like to know my weaknesses and make them correct:bawling: .I hope you will all do so...........I am very interested in music also:lol: :lol:
so thanks, this is about my self

Hi Pseudo, Mai and mahishi! http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78...e/welcome2.gif

Hi Sylvia! I hope you figure the forum out. :wave:

Welcome Pseudo! Join us whenever you can. :wave:

Hi Mai! Studying the literature on the site and getting involved in the forum should help with your english. :wave:

Welcome Mahishi! You will find a thriving community of poets here. :wave:

Hello! Hello! Who is this? How are you? I'm fine thanks.

Hey WELCOME to all our new members! :)

Hi all Jislani here...

Just joined today actually, came across this site while searching for A Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

This is actually the first Literature Club I've ever joined and I'm excited to be a member. I been browsing theough the forums and have seen so many great recommendations for reading that it's giving me a book list that I don't know how I'll ever finish.

Welcome Jislani! :wave: This is a very fun place to be.

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Hi! I'm new, too. Glad to meet you! :)

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I'm back...
Sorry for a late reply...
Glad to meet you too....

Hello everyone, I've been a 'lurker' (not as sinister as it sounds)here for a while now,and have plucked up the courage to join in. I'm halfway through an Open Uni English Literature degree, the next block doesn't start until September, 19th century literature, so apart from that I work part-time in retail, work part-time as a freellance researcher, and enjoy reading, trying to write, and draw and paint. I like a broad range of book genres, although at the moment I've got a thing for Daphne du Maurier, and have just finished Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn. Well, I'll leave it there, I'm not really one for talking about myself.

Hope to get to know you all better,
Donna

Hi! I'm a high-school homeschooler from the States. Let's see...sometime next week I hope to start learning French by translating Les Miserables from French to English; I would love to learn French fluently but, alas, am poor and have little money to spend on programs for learning it. All that money Mom spent on trying to make us learn Spanish...anyway.

I am an avid reader--I used to like fantasty and other such fluff until about three years ago, when I started reading classic novels. I believe I have found my reading niche there. Some of my favorite books are Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jane Eyre, Scarlet Pimpernel, etc. Some of my favorite book series are Horatio Hornblower and Scarlet Pimpernel as well.

Other than reading I am also a budding artist, a very amateur horsetrainer, a casual writer, and a multifaceted obsessionalist. I get obsessed quite easily.

The places I would love to visit someday are France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and maybe even Wales.

I hope to learn about all of you soon!

Hello all, I'm a (yes, yes, obligatory collective eyeroll) high school girl from Chicagoland. 'Sally Paradise' is an alias derived from Jack Kerouac's alias from On the Road, Sal Paradise. I'm into Beat, among other things, of course.

Anyway, I stumbled across this forum while trying to find the best way to read Nabokov's Pale Fire, and figured it might be moar intellectually stimulating than /b/ or Totse - though I continue to stand by the latter ;) I read everything from Camus to Ginsberg to Dostoevsky to Kesey to.... etc. Occasionally I indulge in space operatic science fiction, like Frank Herbert's Dune, or monumental time-wasters like Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

I also indulge my (most likely foolish) aspirations to become a writer and a poet. In between putting off school work and watching the classics- The Sting, Citizen Kane (I'm what some may call a 'culture-fag'), I work on short stories and poetry. Surrealism has been an influence - and shortcut - lately.

So! I hope I can be a positive contributor and active, engaging member of the forums here.

so nice to find this site. it's a wealth of information for a despot like myself who generally searches old anthologies for a simple answer. poetry is my favorite genre, though i do digest almost all lit. and find i nearly always catch a glimpse of something i hadn't seen before. obviously, i am most influenced by the lake poets ( wordsworth, coleridge, southey). whether mostly from like mindedness or mutual , umm, indulgences i'll say, this is the most lyrical most cadenced for me. sorry ( i hate diatribes, too). anyway, hello, and i hope i can help someone, and they me.

Welcome to lit-net! I'm a newcomer myself

Hello, I'm Jesse, used to be Jesus, but someone wrote Jesse on my birth certificate, well, that's another story, but I'm glad I'm here. I was an avid reader, until I discovered alcohol, drugs, and whatever. But I would like to get back to reading and this place has so many of the books,authors, poets and Poems I read as a youth, I've been reading it for over a year, but today I decided to join up.

and welcome to you as well... San Antonio, eh? Give Riverwalk my regards... spent quite a few nights debauched on the Paseo del Rio :)

Good evening, fellow readers - what a find this site is! I've been reading since I was about four years old which is more years ago than I care to remember and more books ago than I can begin to remember. (But give me a title and I'll tell you in a flash if I've read it.) I read most things but prefer modern novels, get twitchy if I haven't got a book on the go, can't walk past a book-shop and have a shelf of yet-to-be-read books for a rainy day. Will I fit in, do you think??? I'm really looking forward to joining fellow readers (from all parts of the world by the look of it) and exchanging book experiences.

Hello everybody.

Hi, new here, just thought I 'd say hello :)

It is nice to know that there are a lot of people who share the same views as you , I have always been intrigued by words and their power. I would love to be a writer one day and this is my first step towards it. People say that world is becoming a global village and a small place because man has conquered distance and the technology has got us together,but i don't agree to it .I think that we are moving away from each other as is the universe and we don't have much time to actually be there for some one, infact we getting lonelier.:)

Hello all!

I am heard about this forum through another forum.

About me... well, I, like everyone else here, love literature. I love to read all sorts of types of literature, analyze them, and talk about them. I also love writing my own pieces.

I am a high school senior and cannot wait for college. Dance is my life, and everyone will be very aware of that fact as I post more.

I look forward to meeting everyone and hope to contribute well! ^_^

Welcome Lakeside! :wave:

Hi djy! :wave:

Welcome Kasie! :wave: lots of readers here!

Welcome Amundsen! :wave:

Hi Em1ly! :wave:

Hello Numero! :wave:

Welcome Emily Bronte! :wave: This is the place for you!

hi everyone

Hi I am a British New Zealander. I have a bachelors of Fine Art and have done a post grad (PGCE) in art and design. So why am I here? I can draw well but, being an art history student in New Zealand I prefer abstract art like Dan Flavins, Frank Stella and photography. I am planning to do some work but it takes time.
Well besides art painting and photography I have a passion for reading. I am reading Sylivia Plath which I stole from the staff room table a few weeks ago.
I work as a supply teacher in outer Essex. I do a lot of supply for English, and languages , French,Spanish and German. Yes and I speak bloody Italian and no ones does it!
English is great to teach. Now I want to get some enrichment for myself. I promised to do the literacy paper at Cambridge University, but cannot find the time but still this job keeps me immersed with the classics and I love all the poetry.and the quotes sometimes stuck on the walls.

Here's one from me:

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, weare not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the opposite course. -Gail Sheehy

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Just got registered. I was looking for some inspiration for my classes and decided to hang around for a while. I can relate to what Virgil said in his intro piece. I've got over 200 college hours myself. When I went to college, my life was laid out in front of me. However, the longer I went, the less sure I became about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I finished college with a B.S. (you can interpret that however you want) in Management with a minor in business. I went to work for about a year and then one evening in July I was sitting on Top of the World in Rocky Mountain National Park, watching the sun go down and I realized that what I was doing wasn't very fulfilling. There had to be more to life. I quit my job, moved back to Oklahoma and re-enrolled in school to work off a degree in English and education. I have been aggravated plenty by what goes on in the world of education but I have never looked back and wished different about what I do in the classroom. Do you want to know what is really funny about all this? I've spent the biggest part of my career teaching computers! I've finally found a position where I can have the best of both worlds because not only do I get to teach computers but I get to teach English as well. I know that my bank account will never be very big but I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams when one of my students I haven't seen in ten years gets in touch with me and tells me that I was an important part of their life. Teaching truly is the only profession that allows a person to live forever. Long after buildings and monuments crumble and our own bodies turn to dust, the things that we pass on to our students, not only the lessons but also the advice, is kept alive for the next generation.

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Schwapzure I too teach supply teaching I have just joined today. I totally agree with you --teaching is the most rewarding experience I teach a lot of English and have been using this site inspiration.I hope i can meet more like you-- you have said my thought aloud--inspired

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I'm just now reading Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and just today purchased The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell. I was just surfing around for information on Elizabeth Gaskell when I found your site.

I'm a bookseller for a major chain. I live in Southern California with my husband of 28 (almost 29) years. Our son is a fourth year student at UCLA. I'm first and foremost a bookworm, and I feel I have fairly eclectic taste. It's probably obvious that I love the Brontës and their ilk. (I'm more a fan of Charlotte and Anne than Emily).

some favorite titles:

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Following the Equator by Mark Twain

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

(I'm sure I'm missing some favorite titles. I love so many books!)

My favorite genres are literature, popular fiction, travel literature, books about books, biography, and mystery.

I think I was born to be a bookseller. I love my job! I even handsell books to friends when I'm not at work, lol!

I'm also an avid Bookcrosser. (If you've not yet heard of bookcrossing.com, check it out!) I am MissTree on Bookcrossing. (If you join, I'd appreciate being listed as the referer.) We are a very fun, eclectic group of people whose main hobby is to spread literacy and good vibes by leaving books (labeled with an identification number) in public spots for people to find. The finder may remain anonymous. The hope is that, whether anonymous or not, the finder will write a journal entry describing his or her experience with the book. It's even better if the finder releases the book in his turn for someone else to find and help the book continue its journey.

I guess that was a pretty long introduction, lol, so I'll stop here.

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hi bookseller I like your choice of books