Hello, My name is Sean Im looking forward to posted my first short story, :)
I write horror stories hope you enjoy them !,
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Hello, My name is Sean Im looking forward to posted my first short story, :)
I write horror stories hope you enjoy them !,
Well, i am currently hiding. Luckily for me, there are alot of books where i am hiding(and internet of course!)
I am a chemistry student at the University. I love lit though.
Now i will be posting things.
Wachira
Hi!
I was invited here by one of your members, HerGuardian. Not really sure why, being a rather salty and seasoned pirate. Though my last name does make an appropriate pun, unintential of course. And I have been told I do write some interesting stories; helps to pass the time on long voyages at sea.
Perhaps I may post one or two. Until then, I look forward to expanding my horizons beyond maps and charts, manifests and crew rosters.
Keep your back to the wind, your powder dry and your crew content.
Welcome Mary! I hope you enjoy it here. :)
Howdy, howdy, howdy - welcome to all of the new members!
Hi, My name is Lynne and I'm a long time friend of Janine's. I'm really glad to be in the forum and I'm hoping to learn alot. I work as an instructional aide in a public school and I also work part time in a library. I love it, but it can be detrimental to my health. Every book that comes across the circulation desk looks wonderful. So many books, so little time. Hopefully, Janine can give me some pointers as to how to find my way around here.
Hello, Lynne! Janine is one of the most loved members of the Forum and we are more than happy to welcome any friend of hers! :)
I am sure you will get used to the Forum structure in no time but if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM me.
I just wanted to say hello!! This place really seems cool!!! I am excited i found this website!! My name is Wendy and I live in Ga 30680 and yea!! So this is me and i hope you enjoy this:):):):)
Hi Lynne, Happy you joined up. I know you will enjoy it here. There are such great people and some are now my best friends; soon you will feel right at home. I will have to work on directing you to some of the threads I think you will enjoy. I know what you mean about 'detrimental to your health' - I can't even make a dent in the last batch of books I purchased from Dover; I haven't been to the library for ages, out of sheer guilt, in not reading these books first. I will get there eventually. Need any help, just ask me on my profile page or in the personal email.
Scheherazade, Thank you for the flattering comment to my friend; I feel quite honored. You know I love it here and probably will be a 'lifer'. I am sure Lynne will enjoy all the benefits, as well, and have a great time on this terrific site. She loves to read and watch plays and movies, so this is definitely the right place to be.
hi
to every one I am a new joinee to this forum,I hardaly get time to read but I like reading books,By profession i m working with an India based compony and we protect people and assets from fire.
hello everybody;
im a new member in this interesting forum, im a sophomore in the university of literature and human science. i just wanted to introduce myself and im sur that ill enjoy being a member here:yawnb:
see ya
ciao
Welcome Lynne. There are quite a few librarians here on lit net. I hope you get to talk with them. They all seem to love their work. If you have any questions on getting around, just ask me in my profile page. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lynne50
I stumbled across these forums as I was looking for critical commentary about Catch-22, which I'm currently reading- imagine my surprise to find that it is your book club's March selection!
An avid reader in my youth, I found that all the reading requirements in college zapped my desire, and for about a decade thereafter I read books very rarely. Lately I've re-committed to reading classics and discovering contemporary authors. This month I completed Lawrence's "Women in Love" and hope to enjoy a new book every month.
I'm one of those folks who cannot NOT complete a book, even if I hate it, so we'll see how long it takes me to get through Catch-22...:D
Cheers everyone!
I was just doing some quick research but liked your forum so much I wanted to sign up. I'm a homeschooling Mom, so this is a great resource.
Hello, I come from Bahia Brasil. I“m sorry for my english. I“ll try to make me understand
Hi, I'm Ophelia new to the forum !!! :( , I'm 20 year old. I'm a passionate lover of books, languanges and of course Literature. I study English and American Literature, and something called African Literaure which I still know only a little bit about it!!!
Well, conserning my favourite writer, or it's better to say writers cos I do like many. I read Daniell Steel, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe.... Walt Whitman...etc. My favourite novel is The Main by Trevanian maybe cos it's the first I read. It's special for me!!
Ophelia :)
My name's Vincent. I'm 19, out of high school, and doing a year of personal studies before going to college to get my B/A in Writing & Literature.
I love reading, I try to do about 100-200 pages a day. My favorite authors are Jack Kerouac, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Aldous Huxley, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William S. Burroughs. Right now I'm reading 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau.
I came to this forum because I was searching for somewhere to discuss literary things, as none of my friends like to read and I have very little opportunity to talk about it otherwise.
Hello,
I'm originally from warm, sunny Barbados, now living in cold, dreary Dearborn, Michigan. I'm almost twenty-two, studied English Lit. at University, am involved/working in fashion design and marketing of my own line, but still love reading and still make time for it. I consider myself a failed writer because I don't think I have enough imagination, but I still love reading the writings of others.
Some of my favorite authors are Tolstoy, Proust, Chekhov, Lawrence (D.H. and T.E.), Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, Edgar Allen Poe, many more.
I love movies, too. Favorite actor is Humphrey Bogart. Favorite actresses are Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard.
I joined because I was looking for a place to discuss literature with others since I'm no longer in school and don't discuss it there.
Welcome MissScarlett, I know we just meet up on the 'Richard II' thread, but it is good to hear a little about you here and meet you formally...welcome to the forum! I am sure you will be a great asset and enjoy it here very much.
I am an avid Lawrence fan - D.H., but I would love to read T.E., as well. A few of us usually have a D.H.Lawrence Short Story thread going monthly; so, when it starts up again, (I am hoping soon), I hope you can join in. You can check out the thread and how many of the stories we have already discussed. I will send you the link, if you need it; I am sure by now the thread has gotten buried and may be several pages back. I will post in it soon to bring it up to date in the listings again. We also, have a similar Chekhov thread. Hope when we start that one up - probably by summer, you can join in as well. Both are a lot of fun and quite enlightening.
I also love Thomas Hardy and have read most of his work, but not much of his poetry, just his novels. Tolstoy is an old favorite of mine, as well. You have good taste in literature and I know you said you love Shakespeare, as well....now that is a fine taste in literature and poetry combined.
I love old movies too. LadyWentworth and I are always posting about them in the movie thread. Again, welcome and enjoy browsing around the place.
Hi everyone. My name's Juvie. I always come across this forum whenever I browse the net for essays and critical studies about literature. It's only now that I have found the time to actually drop by and say hi. I'm from the Philippines, by the way.
HI :D
I have been around this forum for 2 weeks now, or is it 3 already? Not sure - so that would be the first thing to confess: my memory could be better ;). I did not post in this thread straight away as I was a bit in a hurry when I registered and I did not remember it until now.
I am a 23-year old student and I should be done studying by now, but I am a bit of a procrastinator. I know I should snap out of it. Point is, there are just too many nice movies, wonderful books and breathtaking music in this world :). Each one of these can make me dream away and forget what I should be doing for a considerate amount of time.
I choose "Sapphire" as an user name as I like the bright blue colour and it's the stone of the month September - my birthday month. My avatar is the end of a necklace, with some sapphire stones on it and a white stone with the word "WISH" on it in silver. I would like to say "dare to dream", though I am aware of the fact that reality needs to be kept in touch with ;)
I am not a native English speaker, but we have many English movies, TV series and music in the Netherlands so I did kind of grow up in the middle of it - yes, I'm Dutch ;). I do tend to construct my own sentences sometimes though, making perfect sense in my eyes but none in somebody elses. So please let me know when I am babbling about and not saying anything relevant. If you tell me, I can do something about it :D
I came here to talk about literature, as it falls completely outside my line of studying and I thus do not talk about it much. People I know are not interested in talking about books, or at least not in a different manner than "do you like it?" or "you should try this, it is interesting".
I would like to learn how to talk about them in a more "literate" manner. As in being able to recognise themes and styles and stuff like that. I think it will be fun to look at books in a different way than just thinking "nice story".
I am a sucker for details: one sentence in a book, movie or song can make me like the whole of it. In the same way, one bad choice of words can make me forget about the good stuff. I am however quite a positive person and tend to put more significance on the parts I like than on the things I dislike ;)
Well, I could go rambling on but I guess I should not. That is another problem I have: I tend to use many words to get a point across. I like poetry (combination of songs and literature) and admire it when a whole story can be told in a little amount of words.
I also like to just chat, some of you might have seen me in the general chat already ;)
Take care,
Sapphire
Edit I just realized it might be interesting to tell what I read. I just finished "Jude the Obscure" by Tom Hardy. I really liked it, especially as it surprises me every time again that people from former times could think so much like us.
When characters get totally caught up in their feelings and become very emotional I find it hard to connect - though I do think it interesting to read about that I am too down to earth to really get what they are feeling.
I really liked Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) and Ships that Pass in the Night (Beatrice Harraden).
I usually read while travelling, and as that often means walking you can see me wonder about with a book in my hands - crossing busy street and oblivious of the world around me. Somehow, I do not stumble while doing so while I'm quite a clumsy person. I even read while riding a bicycle, though I have to say I only do such on (not that busy) separate bicycle paths as I do not want to run into a car...
hello everyone.I'm hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.Wish all of you a nice day!!!
Thank you for the welcome, Janine. Sons and Lovers has always been one of my favorite novels. I've read some of Lawrence's short stories, but not all. I wish someone would publish a compilation of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I haven't read all of Tolstoy, either, but I've loved what I've read.
Chekhov and Jane Austen are my favorites.
Yes, I do love Shakespeare, and will try to contribute to the discussion of Richard II, but I'm not Shakespeare expert! LOL Still, it doesn't get much better than the Bard.
Hello virgil, i have to tell you that you seem to be avery nice person and an intersting character. You are also openning to the world and achearful man ihope that life gives all that you wish.
soulmate.
lets light acandel
*waves* I'm new :)
Hi, I'm new :)
Hi everyone. My name is Johnathan, John for short, and I just registered to the site. I joined on impulse after my teacher shared with me a thread talking about a book we are soon to read. I saw a small sample of what this forum has to offer. Everyone throws in their two cents and everyone can benefit from it! I love sharing ideas and perspectives on books that I have read or pretty much anything. I am a junior attending Whittier Technical Vocational Regional High school. I am also an athlete, I have a passion for basketball and meeting new people. I thank whoever started this forum and to my teacher for showing me this wonderful community.
My favorite book I have read so far was 'The kite Runner'. I have not been a big reader my whole life. When in middle school, I was a straight A+ student all the way up to eighth grade. Then when I enrolled in high school things kind of came to a stop. I picked my act up after some time and now I maintain A's and B's, rarely C's. My vocational area lies in the field of Telecommunications (Information Support Services.) I started an Internship with Raytheon IDS. Integrated Defense Systems has much to offer. It is also the most profitable branch of Raytheon as you might know. I specialize in computer hardware and have a strong feel for software as far as installing apps and programs for clients to use on their laptops. I troubleshoot computers when we notice a startup or hardware failure. I like where i am and hope to carry it on with me for the rest of my life.
When Im at home or hanging out with my friends like any person would, I listen to music and play sports. I have a craving for games of different sorts such as RTS, MMORPG, and FPS. Some games I play are Halo 3, Supreme Commander, and World of Warcraft. Music I listen to is heavy metal from bands like As I Lay Dying, Slipknot, Unearth and In Flames. I also have a thing for classic rock! I listen to AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, ZZ Top and Scorpions. Hip-hop, dance, and house music really get me going.:D
I am hungry for the knowledge and opinions of others. I think well of myself for my age and think I am slightly more mature than other kids of my age. I look forward to meeting everyone and hope I have fun here.
Thanks for reading
what in your view, what factors kept the Maurel family together
I have only written a few poems lately, as a respite from my usual work as a family law lawyer. I enjoy painting in acrylics, especially landscapes from southern Alberta and portraits, singing baroque music, hiking and just being in a forest, especially West Coast forests.
I have only written a few poems lately, as a respite from my usual work as a family law lawyer. I enjoy painting in acrylics, especially landscapes from southern Alberta and portraits, singing baroque music, hiking and just being in a forest, especially West Coast forests. Here is my poem:
Forests forever
I'd rather be a mossy patch beneath the cedar tree
than on a rooftop tennis court in Dubai country.
Solomon seals and huckleberry line my forest path
but the beauty is long forgotten by engineers doing math.
Science has measured each plant and species,
chemically explored new genetic possibilities,
so we tinkered and harvested,
we skim the cream of life;
our ordering brains exploit
so we might Survive
and breed
and grow each mother's child.
Maybe eternally our species will grow and recreate
taking more and more and more of precious living space
till the threshold point is reached,
and the balance is tipped,
and biobankruptcy is complete.
Only then as we slowly gasp and fade
into circumstances most forlorn
and pray that a saviour will come to the planet's aid
and remove its crown of circling strangling thorns
2. The dappled cedar canopy alive with exquisite mosses
simply cannot cooexist with corporate profit & losses.
The voices of birds suspended in silencio extremis
resonate in the cool misty forest epidermis
of fern and needle, leaf , vine and trunk
So Summon we, we command thee
the forest stewards of this century,
collectively, governmentally,
Those that know the forest spirit,
Decide now what is greed, then kill it;
Or answer to us,
the collective conscience of all human souls upon this planet
why is was necessary to disturb natures sanctuary,
for the golden egg and profit motive;
the Midas touch will leading us to the ultimate calamity.
The skin of our planet is daily torn away,
and stripped with hyper speed,
not radioactive decay
and ulcerated by our corporate maw,
the tentacles of our appetites grow
to reach and pull and extract unremittingly
the compounds we seek for our comfort, our wars, with no pity
for the interwoven fabric sublime
so nature we leave behind.
But stop,
let us not cause the forest to lose it's strength,
its power, its varied composition
its solitude and latitudinal position.
For the future is long, dark and confused.
And fertility may stop, and our golden age may set,
in a haze and effects of toxic contaminants;
Instead, leave the last few tracts now left in the wild,
and the grasses, jungles, forests and fields,
for our very very distant future human child
who we bless with the seas and the song of the wind
and the fruits of the sweetness of wisdom, but not our sins.
Have we not have enough in our homes, cars and planes
to stop the activity that may be insane?
Therefore, take less each day and share, content to just to be.
Try to limit consumption & harmful technology
so from your grave it can be said
that you had love for the planet.
Marvelous, MissScarlett; so glad to meet up with someone who loves "Sons and Lovers" as I do. Well, it is funny, as the avid fan of Lawrence that I am, the first book that turned me onto the author was not "Sons and Lovers", but rather "Women in Love", which followed it by a few novels. I still love that book the best for some reason but "Sons and Lovers' is only a hair behind now, especially since I realise how autobiographical it is, and also read it twice. I have read about 4 biographies of the author and much more resource material. The thing is when I first tried to read "Sons and Lovers" I could not get into it and then next try I could not put it down. I guess it was my timing. Now I have actually read L's first two novels "The White Peacock" and "The Trespasser". These are hard to find. We, on this site, are planning to read "The Rainbow" and discuss that sometime soon; maybe we can pull that off in the summer. I hope you can join in.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Exactly my sentiments. I guess I have only read some short stories and 'Anna K', but I plan to read more T. I bought a few of his I have been interested in for sometime now. Of course someday I will tackle "War and Peace", but I haven't the patience to do so presently.Quote:
I haven't read all of Tolstoy, either, but I've loved what I've read.
I wasn't a big Chekhov fan but now I got into his work from encouragement from another Litnet member and I enjoy and appreciate it very much. I would like to read his plays after the short stories; I recently bought a book of Russian plays. I have one set of short stories of Chekhov's narrated by Kenneth Branagh on a 3 CD set. I love listening to that set.Quote:
Chekhov and Jane Austen are my favorites.
Don't worry - believe me, none of us are Shakespeare scholars or experts. We just work our way through them the best we can. Usually we end up learning from each other which is always the beauty of a forum discussion, don't you think?Quote:
Yes, I do love Shakespeare, and will try to contribute to the discussion of Richard II, but I'm not Shakespeare expert! LOL Still, it doesn't get much better than the Bard.
Oh, Women in Love is a great book! That's another favorite of mine. I haven't read The White Peacock or The Trespasser. I love to read The Rainbow with you and others. I think it would be great for discussion and with Lawrence, there's always so much to discuss. I wish someone would do a collection of all of Lawrence's short stories like they do with other short story writers. I wonder if his novels have eclipsed his short stories in the publishing world?Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
It's always great to learn from one another. I'm glad I found a forum where people actually love to discuss literature. A lot of them I've participated in deteriorate into mindless chatter or arguing. It's nice to find one where actual discussion is going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Oh no Scarlett, you like Lawrence as well? :eek: I think you're going to fit in really well. :) Well, we're glad you found us. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
What if the ways of the End were near and all things might soon fizzle and fray from the smoldering pain dealt betwixt one and an other?
Don't know where that came from. But seriously, what if?
In any event, here I am. I have arrived at this forum much to my liking as I now finally have a place to vent what I want which won't warrant wan wishes. Or maybe they will. The upshot is that here in this forum I have found a digital litterary corner where I can bask in the words of the great and have, at least, the potentiality of being agreed with. ;)
Hi everybody ! Firstly, I want to tell you that I'm French, so, sorry if I don't write very well. I'm 16 ( 17 on April, 20th ^^) and I learn English since I was in primary school. I'm in high school. I love Literatur. I read since I learnt to read. Literatur is ma life. My favourites author are Jane Austen, Emile Zola, Flaubert...I love sisters Brontės too. I have a lot of favourite books, but I can say that the favourite of favourite is Pride&Prejudice. I'm crazy of Mr Darcy! I've read Pride&Prejudice, Persuasion, Sence&Sensibility, Northanger Abbey of Jane Austen. Mansfield Park's waiting me.
I read sometimes in English. I've read The Jane Austen Book Club and Christmas Tale by Charles Dickens.
I like " classic" book like Hugo's book for instance. I read sometimes literatur youth like Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling.
After high school I would like to study literature. I want to be journalist.
I think I've finished =) So, if you have some questions, I'll answer you.
hello everybody! I'm a Brontė Sisters truly fan!
Bįrbara
hello everyone. I will refreain from writing a lengthy introduction. I am a highschool student and i love literature. Writing, reading , plays, all of it. I have loved to read since i was a young child ( im sure many of you consider me child because im a mere senior in highschool and so many of you are well beyond college, so i will be specific and say "young"). However im not much of a performer in the drama department, mainly because many of my best friends are fellow jocks. Yes I am quite the athlete and apparently im a rare breed , do to the athleticism and love for literature. It is for this reason I am greatful for wonderful message boards such as this one because i love to discuss literature and my best friend and fellow captain of the football team hasnt read a book for pleasure since the 5th grade. Im almost certain it was one from the Captain Underpants serie. so thanks.. by the way i just started getting into james joyce and i need a little help. Ive been reading about him because i feel to truely understand an artists work you must understand them as a person, for the most part. thanks everyone.
We had a wonderful discussion on "Women in Love"...I guess it was 2 yrs ago; am I right Virgil? The thread still exists, but must be way back there in the pages by now; sorry you were not around then. I need to copy that discussion as a text file to my HD; first I have to find it. It's my favorite Lawrence book. I read it twice and listened to the audio narration now, nearly twice. I love it. I love the beautiful writing in "The White Peacock" but it is an early work and has it's flaws; however, it's brilliant just the same, because the young Bert Lawrence was brilliant from the start. It is not an easy book to find. "The Trespasser" I read recently. It was really different and the prose was amazingly gorgeous. It felt like a long prose poem. I am surprised that more people do not read that book. I knew the background story of how it came about - the idea taken from a true, a story relayed by his friend Helen concerning her romantic but brief experience with a married man. One of his short stories relates to this novel, so that stimulated my curiosity.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Well, "The Rainbow" will no doubt be the next novel we all do; us Lawrence enthusiasts.
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Yes, Virgil, I think we found another person to recruit for the short stories. Lynne50 also likes Lawrence. This is great; always good to find new participants.Quote:
Oh no Scarlett, you like Lawrence as well? I think you're going to fit in really well. Well, we're glad you found us.
Quote by MissScarlett
It is and we do that. Sometimes we start out with a Lawrence short story and some say they don't like this or that about the story, and by the end of the discussion, how much our perceptions have been altered. It is interesting to see that process and how we all learn from each other. I love the serious discussions we have had on here, too. There are still lots of threads that are 'light' and even pure nonsense, but sometimes sparks of genius do come through and YES, we do actually discuss literature here in quite a number of threads.Quote:
It's always great to learn from one another. I'm glad I found a forum where people actually love to discuss literature. A lot of them I've participated in deteriorate into mindless chatter or arguing. It's nice to find one where actual discussion is going on.
hi ,everyone just thought that i would say hello and that i'm getting ready to read war and peace any comments on getting through, thanks
Hi there! I'm a new Literature Network member. My special interests are James Joyce, Jane Austen, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I look forward to many conversations with you!