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Hello,

I'm a mid-30's full-time english major at University of Western Ontario. I have a large home library, and my favorite texts are mostly 18th and 19th century. Genre wise; gothic lit. is my speciality.

Hi Night_Lamp :) hope that you take up my book club proposition! :)

Hello Everyone!! Its nice to see a friendly Forum. I read mostly tech manuals, non-fiction science books and text books. I am trying to incorporate more classic literature and fiction in to my library, this seems like a good place to start. So any suggestions feel free to send them my way :).

My first love was Hector. He is most underrated, at least by my older boys who actually read. I made the mistake of allowing an xbox in my home for the younger two and am ready to pull the plug.

I, myself am older 40's, who lives and breathes horticulture and sports, but find myself seriously undereducated and am considering my options for improving that condition.

I currently live in south central PA, but would consider moving if anyone has any suggestions for a nice cultural college town who welcomes adult students. Actually central PA is close to a lot of cities with art museums and public gardens and the beach if I'll get off my behind and drive, or take the train, which I do, but not often enough.

I am off to find the Dumas thread. Am I correct that he has some obscure adventure serials? I'll find out I guess.

Nice to meet you.

Hi everyone, my name is Toboe here, I am 22 and a life long book lover. I have dabbled in writing poetry, short stories etc. I hope to learn a lot from this forum , and maybe make some friends along the way. My favorite author (right now) is the Japanese Author Haruki Murakami. I love his simple realistic writing tinged with an almost Kafka-esque touch, and his anti-climatic endings are great. I have already posted a short story on this forum and I am hoping some people will read it and comment on it, maybe if you have some writing advice, or just want to tell me what you thought of it. Well, that's all I hope I have a great time here. Peace :)

A warm welcome to all the new people! :)

Hi. (:

I'm currently 25 years old man, and...

I was a lot more of a book worm when I was a kid; read tons of true-story based books and adventure books (one of my favorites were "This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolf, and one book about a dog named Kazan that was part wolf and through tragic events he finally found himself in the wild... I don't know what it's original neme was...) In my teenage years I read less but when I did read it was either Stephen King or J.R.R Tolkien. Later I got into the Harry Potter series, The Phantom of the Opera, and the newest found love (about a year ago) is The Vampire Chronicles. Of non-fantasy category I don't read much but sometimes...

My favorite books... Absolute number one is The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, and not only because the fandom is my newest love and vampires have been my lifelong love, but because the book just has everything a story should, especially a vampires that of. And a book about Lestat could not get more in-depth and better than that... and that book made Lestat into my all-time number one favorite fictional character.

Anyways, other favorite books are Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan has also been close to my heart all my life), The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, a fanfiction story about it (published as a book) by Susan Kay titled "Phantom", Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Of non-fantasy books my absolute favorite is The Deep End of the Ocean.

Past few latest years I've only read books that are the source material to movies I've loved. In other words I'm more of a film freak. What's absurd is that I got into The Vampire Chronicles only after seeing the film Queen of the Damned. But then again it was not the film itself that stirred my interest but what I saw so to say "between the lines". Somehow I saw the adorable, incredibly deep, strong and psychological father-son relationship of Marius and Lestat's and that's why I begun read the books. And was more than happy to learn what I had felt was exactly how it was originally, and to learn all about the reasons why = Lestat's mortal life and psychological developement all in all.

My dearest hobbies are making fan videos, forum roleplaying and writing fanfiction all in all. Drawing fan art is also lots of fun. The Vampire Chronicles are clearly the most and strongest inspiring books and I'm happy I'm talented in video editign and drawing, so I can get the visions out as long as writing fanfiction on them is prohibited- *SIGH*

I'm very,artistic and creative soul and a very, very passionate fan all in all ad especially if I can relate to something on especially personal level. In any case I always, always dig deep and give a good thought or a thousand good thoughts to what I watch/read/see. It makes me happy. And I love to share what I've figured out - in other words I host in-depth fan sites, love discussing the fandoms and I also looove debating. And psychology- now, THAT is the thing I love above all else in life. Well, maybe family comes first.

Then what do I hate?
Ungratefulnnes, when the compiter is being an ***, shallow people who don't even want to get it, and... One thing I strongly oppose is fanfiction slash hysteria - all in all but especially the false homosexual visions on The Vampire Chronicles. Yet I so have nothing against gays.
If someone interested - I reason my opinions and attitudes very in-depth, here, on one of my fan sites.

To end this post in a good note:

Other things I love are ie; children, animals (especially wolves, dogs and cats), night time, past centuries, hot dogs, summer...

Favorite...

MOVIES: Peter Pan (2003), Young Guns 1 and 2, The Breakfast Club, Queen of the Damned, Interview with the Vampire, any Lindsey Lohan movie, old Star Wars trilogy, LotR trilogy, The Phantom of the Opera (2004)...

TV: LOST, That 70's Show, Monk, Ghost Whisperer, Heroes, Little House on the Prairie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel...

MUSIC: Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Elton John, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Skillet, 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin, James Blunt, Green Day, Lifehouse, Snow Patrol... Skillet, Skillet, Skillet, Skillet, endlessly Skillet!!!

Just call me PJ, I'm a 58 year old male who likes to write stuff and up until I discoverd drugs and alcohol was voracious reader, that was until I was 19. And I con't drink or take drugs anymore, haven't for quite some time. I want to get back into the swing of reading and writing. And this place is great for sharing ideas and for igniting what's left of my imagination which is still vast.

Greetings fellow bookheads!
My name is Dave. I've had the nickname 'Le Dingue' since I was maybe 14 and it's become a sort of internal persona, a kind of main character in the novel I laughably think of as my life!
Does that sound pretentious..? I probably deserve to be called worse things than that. Very occasionally I've been paid great compliments, though without exception these have always surprised me and sometimes left me feeling a little embarrassed.

Anyway, this is me rambling on.
Writing is, for me, a bit like trying to dictate from a radio programme... even writing this insignificant little blurb here.
Somehow thoughts, words and one's ego are all that there is of any continual substance and emotional value as the clocks tick relentlessly.
Smoking yet another cigarette...

God I'm morbid! 44 years old and I'm so pissed off with that, I already think of myself as 45 just to make it worse so that when I re-realise that I'm actually 44 it's just one tiny smidgin less bad!!
If you're young make damn sure you have the best time you possibly can, go like a racehorse for all the slices you can get, absolutely!

That's me anyway, maybe see some of you in the odd thread here and there.

Dave

Hello All

I am new to this site I am currently doing 2 English Modules through UNISA.

Hope this site will be able to help ;)

I like reading but am not a literary sort. I have varied tastes and enjoy listening to people talk about books, depending on how the discussion goes. I'll wander around a while and see if I fit in anywhere.

Delmar

this is the first time i post something on a web. a liitle bit nervous.i don't know whether this might be read and responded. i have recently read some novels in the Norton Anthology of American Literature. as a foreign language learner, i felt i couldn't understand them very well, thoug i really love those writing, say, Winter Dream by F. Scott Fitagerald, Pnin by Vladmir Nabokov, the man who studied Yoga by Norman Mailer, The life you save may be your own by Flannery O'connor, Life Story by John Barth, and many others, which happened to make me feel the people's life in those stories are quite the same as what i witness today in China.Anyhow, i log in in order to get some help from the English native speaker,esp. experts on literature.

Hiya, Im diggy and i started french in the j8th grade. Absolutely love the language and still have a far way to go to be able to speak it fluently:)

Hello everyone,

I never know what to say when introducing myself. I'm just me. Words that I could use to describe myself seem to belong to someone else. I'm currently falling back in love with reading and I've joined up here to discover books I might never find by browsing the bookshops in the city.

Peace,

Copernicus. :)

Hey everyone, I just signed up for this site, and I'm not the best at figuring what to say, but I'm lacking inspiration but am craving to write. Hopefully I'll get some feedback when I produce something.
Since a lot of reading influences a lot of writing, I guess I'll say that I have a (more recently selective) list of favorite books/authors that include Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, etc), JRR Tolkien (the linguistics genius), Anne Rice (some reservations on this but I love her style sometimes), and whatever happens along the way.

By the way, 'indil' means flower in Quenya (elvish by JRR Tolkien), fyi. Not my name

Hey everyone I'm new here so I guess I have to make some sort of introduction - Here it goes I'm 17 running on the fuel of enthusiasm, working hard for a freedom of a kind that would probably never come. I am in a really funky mood right now so if you want to know more you'd have to ask later. : )

Hi, I'm Alejandro fom Bueno Aires and I´ve always shared our grest writer J.L.Borges fascination with ancient germanic literatures, espcially anglo-saxon and scandinavian.

I'm 23 and just joined because I finished Don Quixote but found I had no one whith whom to discuss it. This site looks awesome for a nerd like me. Well, I'm off to the Cervantes forum...

Hello everyone, I'm the new here, and I like reading and wrting novels and short stroies.

Hello literature lovers,
to answer the forum's request I come here with a brief introduction :)

I was born in the Netherlands, but have been roaming the earth for quite some years now. At this moment I am 25 years of age, and back in the capital of my mothercountry. This winter I will be attending the New York Film Academy in New York City, an adventure I am well looking forward too!

My lit-hero is Anaïs Nin, I love her for so many reasons, her words being the most prominent one.

Some of my favorite books are...

Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler
Innocents by Gilbert Adair
In Defense of Sin by John Portmann
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Wilderness and The American Night by Jim Morrison ♥
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Scent of Your Breath by Melissa P.
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

I also really love John Wilmot's Poetry and written letters!

I hope to also roam this web forum when I have time, and getting to know interesting other literature lovers!

PS.
I cannot believe I didn't write down Anaïs' works in my favorites list!
Safe to say, I love everything she ever wrote ;)

I just learned of your site today and have not yet had a chance to look around. I imagine that you will learn more about me from any comments I post than anything I may think I know about myself.

...hmm...what I read (I'll jump between Titles and Authors here) anything by Amy Tan, David Baldacci, Vince Flynn, John Mortimer's Rumpole Series, almost anything by Alexander McCall Smith (Ladies No.1 Detective Agency, 54 Scotland Street, Sunday Philosophy Club) series', Charles Dickenson, Les Miserable, Cold Mountain, Snow Falling on Cedars, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Secret Lives of Bees, Poe, Dan Brown, and so many more.

I look forward to learning more about the site and the members.
~L

Mdmsll BB,

I am so glad to see Lolita listed in your favorites list. This is a funny book, so absurd, how anyone can think it is porn, obviously hasn't read it fully.

~L

Hi L, fellow newling ;)

I agree with you, it's taking one part and stretching it, while overlooking the essential ingredients. My theory is that people see in things, the things they wish to see, so when people call Lolita pornography, well, that says a lot about them ;)

Hello mdmsll BB,

Well said!

Hello. My Preferred name is Remii though its nothing like my real name. I always thought you should have two names. the one that your parents give you, which reflects there personality, and the name that you bestow upon yourself, which ultimatly reflects yourself, your soul all compressed into this one name.

I always like to introduce myself with a statement that i hope will effect readers in some way even if it is minute.
i have just finnished yr nine, and I have been thinking more and more about my future. I decided to keep my options open and explore everything. i have started with my favourites including writing. i would welcome ANY advice that anyone has to offer!
I hope you enjoy things that i post.
:D

Hello all. Young and younger.:)

I am a newcomer to this precious site. I am glad to be here. I was reading books since my childhood, even though most of them were fairytales and the stories about adventurers and so on. So when I saw that site for the first time I was overpowered by all these comments, which are good-minded and good-natured mostly.

I hope in the good companionship here.
I should say that my English is not very good.
But I am still working to improve it.
Sometime you can find some bad grammar.:yawnb: :)

Hello to you all. I'm Fenella and if I told you my age you would never believe it, but I still have a few marbles left. Reading, painting and the internet are my lifelines.Still love the poetry of my youth, Hiawatha.Ballad of East and West. The Traveller. Hope to renew my acquaintance with old and new.

Hello! I am probably among the younger members of this site. I am a junior in high school, and I love to write. I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to do after college, and writing is a possibility, so I thought I'd find a way to get feedback. Let's face it, asking mom if your story is any good has a slightly biased return.

I also love discussing books, so I will definitely go check out that section of the forum as well.

I look forward to learning more about you all!

Hi everyone!
I am very happy to have come across this website - literature plays an important role in my life primarily because it has allowed me to reflect, keep things in perspective and make sense of various moments and processes experienced during my time in the army but also now at the office. I look forward to get in touch with people that share an interest in US,German and Russian literature.

Hi everyone!

(Oh no, I used the last poster's greeting!)

I am a twenty-year old university student looking for a place to discuss books outside the classroom. This is especially true for the summer, when I have very few people to "talk literature" with. When I found this site I knew I had struck gold -- taken aback by all the enthusiasm, it dawned on me that this is perhaps the number one spot for book-lovers on the web. Sixty thousand members... this place is more populous than my hometown!

I look forward to some engaging discussions (especially over some nice food... as I write this my eyes dart between the screen and my Turkey Pastrami. Apple Cider, anyone?)

-ktm

hello everybody , well u can call me NEW-COMER cuz i am , never mind i'll get used to the place. well , i'm 22 years old i study english specifically ENGLISH CIVILISATION; the history of ENGLAND , U.S.A..... and the history of every english speaking country , at least the famous ones. anyhow, my love for literature is insatiable. I read every interesting work especially when it comes to NATURALISM. well, if u need any further information about me u have just to contact me , u welcome at anytime.

:banana:

Well, I've been a very occasional visitor for awhile, and a few of you may know me from another forum: http://www.literaturejunction.com/ as Winifred. Thought I'd say hello, and that I enjoy the variety here!

I am Abhinav Hardikar from India

To understand who I am read something I have written:

Compare and Contrast Parental vs. Public Entity Responsibilities

Parents who have been laid off are not relieved of their responsibilities. They still have to feed, clothe, and house their families. Those parents cannot say to their children you are now going to have to pay for the privileges that you previously enjoyed at our expense. Public entities should be no different. The concept that public entities should be able to further burden those parents who have been laid off and are desperately trying to make ends meet due to the current economic problems of this nation is insane. This statement applies to public utilities, and to our governmental elements at all levels, city, county, and federal.

That SRP's application for a rate increase application be approved at this time is pure insanity. SRP should be advised to do as all of us who are in the same situation of trying to make ends meet. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” Do not lay people off and make the situation worse either. Instead, tell SRP and the government entities to "live within your means." One example would be to cut the wages of all those in the entity still making more than the poverty level by a percentage large enough to eliminate that portion of whatever the entity's shortfall is that the management of the entity report cannot be eliminated by other means. This last one must apply to management in particular, perhaps at an even greater percentage that it does to those at the lower levels. Would not this give management incentive to solve the problems or else suffer a pay cut?

The concept of instituting new fees for services not previously charged for, or increasing the fees or charges for services, at this time is equally insane. Just because some poor sucker's head is under the guillotine is not sufficient reason to drop the blade because you have the power to do so. The more money that is required of those who are in danger of having their houses foreclosed, the more foreclosures will occur. The more foreclosures occur, the more the prices of property will drop. Does not anyone get it? Anytime you increase prices or allow prices to increase, in an economic depression the worse, you make the depression.

While we are at it, tell those senators and congress members to eliminate those special medical benefits that they deny all others. Tell them to give back all raises that they gave themselves in the period of this economic crisis. Why is it that it is acceptable to grant all senators and members of congress unlimited health care at the expense of the state but it is socialism to grant any health care to all the citizens of the state? I am not so much in favor of universal healthcare as I am against the concepts described in the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, where "all are equal but some are more equal than others." This is especially true when those who can most afford health care receive it free at the expense of those who cannot afford healthcare.

Hello, everyone. I'm Laura. I have responded to a post and am now introducting myself. I guess I'm one of the older crowd here, too. Unlike Virgil, however, with my age comes little wisdom. I do enjoy reading and have read quite a bit. But I am not a scholar. Currently getting back to one of my favorite authors, Erich Fromm. He was an amazing philosopher. I don't really enjoy talking about myself. I am an observer more than a participant. But I don't want to be completely unsociable either. Now, on to more posts.

Hi Everyone,

My name's Vincent. I'm a twenty one year old English major at the University of Texas at Austin. I joined in the hopes of finding more writing opportunities and to meet others in the field. Good to meet you all!

-Vincent

Hello, pleased to meet everyone, you all seem pleasant here! :)
My name's Tom, I'm 15 years old, I live in the UK.

Hello everybody,
I'm a mother for two gorgeous kids and this was my last semester where I got my Associate Degree in Art. I like free writing and I like poetry. I'm going to start my bachelor Degree in Foreign languages more specific French. I like the rain and the cloudy weather.

Hey everyone!

My name's Chris and I love writing. I'm an aspiring novelist and I'm currently working on the third version of my second book and an online series with a friend. I like photography too.

Great to see so many new people here!! Welcome to all :)

Hello Community!

My name is Glenn. I am a poet-writer. I am here to share and to read what others have shared. I hope to learn a great deal.