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Hi Everyone on this wonderful website and forum. I live in Istanbul and presently teach at a high school there to grade 9s, 11s and Drama. I love most literature but my favourite book of all time has to be 1984. I also adore anything Steinbeck and favour a bit of Freddy from Bohemia. Look forward to being an avid poster, and thanks for letting me join
hmmm..it is great here..:)
let us now begin..with a kind of David copperfield crap:)
I was born in...bla..bla ..bla..:))
I'm a Master's degree student in English Literature..my undergrad is also in english language and literature...I am from Turkey.. and sure most of you have never heard of this country(which is a shame:)..
and wht about Istanbul? i live in İstanbul which is a wonderful city..
Hi everyone. I'm brazilian and have just joined the forum. I love reading and prefer to do so in the native language of the author. For that reason I like studying languages and speak English, French, Italian and am now learning German and Greek.
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Hi There, I found this wonderful Site while searching for the words of Robert Louis Stevenson's Poem and Epitaph "Home is the Hunter". I'm a Writer, Poet, Musician from Ireland. I live in Dublin just round the corner from the house James Joyce was born in. Martin Egan:wave:
Just found this site and wanted to post a short story I wrote. Nice place you have here.
Hello, my name is Marky Mark Twain. I am an amateur author and literary critic. I just stumbled upon this site the other day while searching for literature forums.
I'm looking for like-minded people to discuss the art of poetry and the novel. I will probably post some of my own work here from time to time as well.
Hi My name is Marie. I came across this site while searching for others interpretation "the idiot" by Dostoevsky. I decided to actually join the site because I'm an avid reader and I always try to find how other readers feel about the same books I read.
My all time favorite book is war and peace. The way Tolstoy writes just captures me completely. A few of my other favorite books are:
Anna karenin, the brothers Karamazov, shes come undone, I hope they serve beer in hell, enders game, the world according to garp, the harry potter series, I know this much is true, one flew over the cukoos nest, a clockwork orange and watership down (i named my dog hazel after the main character.)
Right now im reading Saturday by the same author as atonement.
Recently I printed out a list titled 1001 books you must read before you die, and im just reading them one at a time.
I'm 23 and My major is biochemistry with a minor in philosophy.
am NEW here ! :banana:
am from Bangalore, South India :nod:
my interests:
reading, listening to Classical Music,
Long walks, deep contemplations and
creation of occasional poetry and
:idea:Computer generated Art works !
Hello everyone, good call Mannoual with the Tolstoy preference: War and Peace, and Anna Karenina are fine masterpieces!
My absolute favourite authors have to be Thomas Hardy, the Brontes, Coleridge, Byron.
Greetings,
I am a music writer/researcher deeply involved in a highly controversial book on the life, career and musical reputation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). I am specially interested in the literary relationship between the dominant role of the Jesuit Order prior to 1773 and the rise of the epoch known as the 'Englightenment'. Since, it seems to me from many sources that to some extent the Jesuit Order, despite dominating schools, colleges, publishing, and censorship in the Holy Roman Empire (virtually up until 1773) were definitely pioneers of that later cultural era known as the 'Enlightenment' and that they, after 1773, pursued a secular strategy with Voltaire, Rousseau, Mozart and others up until their restoration in 1814.
The relationships are far too strong to ignore this strong possibility - that, to some extent at least, the rise of the 'Englightenment' was a strategy forumulated by the same Jesuit Order, using, of course, men such Rousseau and Voltaire, Mozart and others.
The links between Englightenment figures such as Baron Grimm (to name only one of dozens) are too great to dismiss this. Grimm being (as you may know) the Paris patron of Mozart during his visit there in 1778.
In short, I am very interested in Mozart and the background to the 'Enlightenment'.
The name of my forthcoming book may speak for itself -
'The Manufacture of Mozart'.
Regards
Hi there and wellcome
I went briefly thru your posts on Mozart and was pleased with your "consistency" statement on my "Rousseau". I'll try to formulate an answer to your own topic which finds me in agreement, specially the "all manufactured" part.
Cheers
hello, just stumbled on this site while looking up J. Joyce. Attempting yet again to make it through Ulysses(I'm going to do it this time). this is a wonderful site and I look forward to using it and talking with members. (I'm definitely going to need some help with Joyce) take care y'all.
Hello!
My name is Maribel and I am a new member here. My mother tongue is Spanish. I came to England 2 years ago and I am trying to improve English. I am passionate for Literature and I am going to study next month at the Open University this year trying to get a degree in English Language and Literature. It will be really dificult because it is a long time I stopped studying. I'm 48 now. I can read books, one of my favourite hobbies but I don't know all the words.
I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with this hard work. Please, forgive my mistakes! Thanks a lot.
Greetings!
I was quite surprised when I found this website! I was searching for a fan based website for Bram Stoker`s Dracula, when I stumbled across this site, and I had to join immediately!
I am a University Student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, located in Budapest Hungary. I moved from Calgary Canada, to Budapest Hungary about three weeks ago, to study at this University.
I love reading, and have a thirst for knowledge, as my user-name implies I am sure. I currently am re-reading Frankenstein.
Hello all,
I have journals of ideas, and my mind is always racing, but have not put everything into full motion...yet. I have some poems that I have completed and a short story. There are at least two novel ideas that I have been serious about for a couple of years now, and I think it is about time. I welcome the chance to view other ideas and I value outside critiques.
I stumbled on this site while researching quotes by Wm Shakspere and am so delighted that I did. I am very impressed after reading some of the quotes.
IT IS SO REFRESHING TO HAVE A SITE OF NORMAL WELL READ PEOPLE.
marpey
I stumbled over this site and it looks like great fun!
I'm a Dutch person, living in Syria and I have a passion for literature, so I think I will enjoy myself here quite a lot.
Hi there this is Jim Fan from Hong Kong. My native language is not English yet I spend most of my leisure time reading introductory books about western philosophy. Feel free to write me a message if you are new too to this big topic and want someone to discuss with.
Jim
I've been lurking a while but decided to join. I have always loved reading but recently have been listening to several classics on audio and really wanted to talk with someone about what I've been "reading". It seems that readers are getting rarer and rarer in our society. When I ask people I know about reading, all I get are blank looks. I've been very active on a hobby type forum and thought I'd look for something similar for literature. This seemed to be the best I found; more active than many. I have an art related undergrad and a masters in accounting (as Monte Python would say "and now for something Completely different"). My reading tastes tend to be classics and sci fi/fantasy. I don't care for romance and I'm ambivalent on mysteries. I do love talking about books and live with a family of reading fanatics - except for the dogs. I live in North Texas (thus my name). Please forgive me as I learn my way around this site, hoping not to step on any toes - or eat any for that matter.
Hello to all of you.
I've accidentally found this forum while browsing the net, looking for information about books. I've peeked at some topics here, and I found them interesting, and I so awfully wanted to reply... I resisted the urge, though. Of course, I will reply in the near future. Or I think so. (:
So - a little about myself. I'm seventeen. My name is Gabriele and I'm from Lithuania. Wonder if anybody knows where it is... (: I live in a smaaall town, so there aren't any cinemas, theatres, clubs or anything. That's one of the reasons why I read so much, I guess.
I started reading even before I learnt to read. I made my grandmother read me something every evening, mostly fairy tales, but my favourite one was a coursebook "Readings for 2nd grade". I admit, I was a strange child. (:
When I started to go to school, I found out that there was a whole library of interesting books, that they had Hugo, and Andersen, and Gaarder, and Lindgren, and Stoun, and Twain, and and and... And then the library became like some kind of a magic place for me.
When I was older, as I recall in 7th grade, I started to write. At first it was only a paragraph or two, but eventually it became bigger and bigger. I write short stories now and I'm quite good at it. It's the way I get all the thoughts from my head and can live like a normal person, not always lost somewhere above the clouds. (:
All in all, I'm very very glad I found this forum, I hope I'll fit in and it will be a lot of fun.
P.S. Sorry for my English, it's not my native language. There might be a lot of mistakes...
P.P.S. It's long. :/
Hello to all. I teach 11 year olds, read when I can, dream about writing, enjoy the outdoors and try to be a decent person.
Hello to all members! I am pleased to see that there is a virtual place like this one. I know I will enjoy it, so much!
I live in Cairo, Egypt but I am Romanian. I had to learn English when I arrived in here in order to communicate better to people. I found Arabic, too difficult for the beginning. I started to read in English and I got familiar to this. I have my Master in Comparative Literature and I am just a simple teacher. Wish all of you a nice day!:angel:
Call me Isidro.
I have a bachelors in English Education and since Masters is not in the cards at the moment, I figured this is the next best thing for now. My favorite books are The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, The Bloody Chasm by John W. De Forest, The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis and the list goes on and on. William Blake, Milton, and Dante top my favorite poets, I can't even narrow down to a favorite essayist, and I wish Jane Austen had written more since I have already devoured everything she wrote.
With affection to my dear literati!
hello...
i dont know what to write here...
for your info...i have join this forum bcoz i want to improve my English:nod:......i am being force to take this subject as a major in my study...so hope this forum can help me....glad to be part of this..:yawnb:
Uhm. HI EVERYONE!
Well, I'm here because I'm an Eng Lit student and wanted to talk to some like minded people without the constraints of the class room. As well as studying Literature I have also taken Language and Sociology in hopes of doing some concoction of the three and journalism at university in a year.
I come from sunny ole England town, where it's grim up t'North :)
Okay, that's the last time I'll type out my accent, promise!
I enjoy a wide range of books and only wish I could read more. I'm currently reading Oliver Twist and looking forward to starting either Notes on a Scandal or One For My Baby when I'm done. I'm also studying Dracula, Dr Faustus, Macbeth, A Handful of Dust AND Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf this year. So no doubt I'll be back with many a question.
Earlier this year I managed to get my dream student job in Waterstones. However they wanted me to work Saturday and Sunday and I'd never have a day off or get to see my boyfriend/friends/family/myself properly so I quit...then promptly lost my other job. So that was a bit of a knock back.
When I'm not stressing over work and school I enjoy all the typical teenager things. Shopping, cinema, being blind drunk, anything of that nature. As well as occasionally picking up my knitting needles and maybe even getting a nice afternoon on my bike.
Anyway. That was rather boring. But Hi everyone, no doubt I'll get to post plenty of questions and maybe even some answers while I'm here :)
hi :)
hi,everyone, its good to be here. i have a question for anyone who is willing to help me out with it
Hello everybody, I hope to share my short stories on here and receive some good feedback.
Hello guys !
well.... i dont think my personality is such as to require a high flown introduction. So, here is a brief one. I love literature and like to read books, specially novels. Besides reading, I listen to music, watch movies and sometimes i draw too. Thats all !
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Welcome to te Lit Net forum. I'm sure you will find your visits interesting and informative. The great thing about the site is that it caters for intelligent readers regardless of their individual tastes. It would be nice to know which country or location you are from which helps to avoid misunderstandings when engaged in the general as opposed to the literary part of the forum.
Anyway, enjoy.
Hi, my name is Rachel.
I Joined because I love discussing the books I read. I'm obsessed with member book reviews as well.
Hello folks,
Greece here. It gets rather gloomy in Athens in September, even if the whole nation refuses to accept that summer is finally over and insists on walking around looking at the sky and smiling. You seen that movie, Shawn of the Dead? Remember the opening scene where Londoners walk around looking like zombies, even if they haven't become ones yet? That's Athens. Only, in Edgar Wright's cult creation Londoners don't smile. We smile. Constantly. Irritating, stupid bunch of idiotically smiling zombies.
Maybe it's the olive oil.
I enjoy grumbling.
I also enjoy football, cooking, and surfing the net for porn. I often go to a bar called "Jazz in Jazz" whose owner and bartender is in love with an Argentinian dancer and wants to move to ****in Buenos Ayres. I like good whiskeys, but unfortunately I can only afford mediocre ones.
I'm thankful for the last six months, in which I've been with someone who might very well turn out to be the love of my life. It's a woman. Sorry, if I hadn't specified that my whole post would make me look incredibly gay. Which I'm not. Not that I've got something against gays, it's just that I'm not. If I were I would make sure I have the best time possible, but I'm just not. Alright?
Although my friend Dimitri is indeed gay. Married, but gay. I don't see much of him unfortunately, but I do see quite a bit of three guys I've been close friends with since primary school. My friends are a very important part of my life. We all sit there and drink scotch and smoke and wonder whether Dimitri's wife knows what a faggot her husband is.
I think that's it. I've covered everything about myself and run out of conversation.
This is a great forum to discover, and I'm very glad I'm here. I'm looking forward to contributing.
Best regards,
DocHeart
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Hello,
Thanks for your warm welcome. No doubt the site is just marvellous in this regard and I am from Pakistan.
Hello everyone. It's good I'm following Miss Everdene, since we're studying Far From the Madding Crowd at school, and I live in Pakistan.
Hi everyone, I am new here
Well, you know where I live, now. I was born here and have no plans to live anywhere else, although I have traveled a bit. I, like Virgil, am probably older than anyone here...I'll be 50 next summer, and finally at a place in my life where I can pursue a life dream: Teaching Literature and Language Arts! Which is really not so much about me being the teacher as it is a way that I can continue to learn.
I had a tough time thinking of a favorite book. Last year, I presented a paper on the role of the artist in Kerouac and Nietzsche. Yikes! I really enjoyed reading Dharma Bums and plan to read On the Road if I survive this semester of MAT. Right now I have a stack of textbooks jealously staring me down, so I had better sign off. This looks like a great forum!
Thanks....
Hello, Alaska77.
I'm 52 and a teacher as well.
Hello. I am Zerstorer.
My favorite books are: The Time Machine (HG Wells), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne).
I enjoy writing and reading, and always carry a spare book.
Hi, I'm new here, too.
I'm a English/German student from Germany and I just love books! Reading and writing are two of my passions. And I'm kind of a weirdo, cause I think I'm one of the very few people who doesn't like Shakespeare ;)
Hi,
My name's Claire, and I stumbled across this site whilst surfing the net for information on T.S Eliot for a school project .
I like a wide variety of books, things ranging from Alexandre Dumas through to Bret Easton-Ellis and Alex Flinn. I have yet to find a book which will not satisfy me on at least one point (even, God forbid, Twilight -or are we not allowed to talk about that without breaching the rule which states no quibbling over current politics:D-), and hope never to do so.
My favourite authors are deffinately Cecilia Dart-Thornton (The Bitterbynde Series), Louis De Bernieres (Captain Corelli's Mandolin), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment etc.), Charles Dickens and T.H White (The Once and Future King), and I highly recommend these to all!!
Some things I really enjoy are reading (big shock), watching Christian bale movies, rock-climbing, tree climbing, horse riding, skiing, writing stories (which I hope may one day be completed and published), clothes shopping .... spending money is a big favourite of mine ...... especially on bale films.......
Anyways; I listen to Short Stack, Tom Felton, Taylor Swift, Huey Lewis and The News (sad, i know), All my favourite musicals (Little Women, Billy Eliot, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, The Little Mermaid.... the list goes on).
I love singing; and my friends and i think I have a brilliant voice, but i've never had an unbiased opinion, we feel the same way about my acting and writing skills ... i get the feeling that a big wake-up-call is waiting for me somewhere down the track, but I will continue to live, totally oblivious of the large possibility that is my inability to sing, act, and write.
That's it for my first post on this site .... hope to meet some other people with the same interests and likes as me!!