Hello everyone, I'm Brielle from Lebanon and stumbled onto this site to pretend I'm an English majorRight now I'm into Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, so looking forward to discussing ideas with you all!
Hello everyone, I'm Brielle from Lebanon and stumbled onto this site to pretend I'm an English major
Took my batteries out my mysticism and put em in my thinking cap
Hello, I'm Bill and I live in the Western part of the US. Glad to have found this site as I really enjoy reading and am looking forward to exploring the site.
Regards,
WE
Hello all,
my name is Aaron and I live in southern California in the US. I have always read obsessively but only in the lAst few years, and particularly in the last one, have I begun to read what you might call 'literature'. I also love to write poetry; when in third grade the teacher had us write poems, I was introduced to the most satisfying activity I have yet encountered. When I was thirteen I took up the clarinet and have since played it in symphony orchestras and jazz bands (though never professionally). I play saxophone, piano, and guitar, too, but not nearly as well.
I have problems with mental illness, depression and mixed-state bipolar in particular, but fortunately I am now on medication. Because of my depression (and anxiety) I am only just starting to attend the local junior college (I'm 20), which makes me feel slightly nervous that I am somehow behind in life.
I'm not working right now (though I've recently applied at the library) but would love to be able to pay my way by writing. But that is, of course, not very likely.
So I guess that about sums it up for my life story. I'm unsure of myself and worried about the future, but also potentially excited. Oh, and here are a few of my favorite authors and books:
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
Hello everybody. My name is Debbie and I am a newcomer to the world of literature. I am now and have always been an avid reader of contemporary works (romances, murder-mysteries). All my life, I have read either to be entertained or to become better informed. Thus my reading has been limited to instructional materials, textbooks, romance novels, murder-mysteries and spy novels.
I have been frustrated in my earlier attempts at reading "literature" because it takes me too long to figure out what it is that the author is trying to say. That is, I have to work too hard to "upload" the information. To me, it has always seemed as though some writers write with the intention of making their words difficult to understand.
Anyway, years ago I managed (with lots of help from Asimov) to read a few of Shakespeare's plays and I would now like to broaden my literary horizons in hopes that someday I will be able to understand why the works of Erica Jong are considered literature and why the works of Sidney Sheldon are not........
I hope that you all will help me on my literary journey.
Welcome Debbie & Aaron!
Aaron, I wouldn't be worried about being behind in life. I started college a year later than most people, spent 2 extra years there, started university at the age most people graduate (21). I skipped the first year of my degree course, but still spent 3 years at uni (the middle being a year spent in industry). I graduated at 24 when most people have already started work full time, but I ended up getting a 1st class honours degree which I don't think I would have got if I had taken the traditional route. I think being a little older when you go to college/uni can be beneficial and you tend to work harder as well.
Hello everyone!
I've read on this forum for about a year, when a crazy idea hit me in the middle of the night.... WHY NOT JOIN IT?!
My friends call me Thomas. My hobbies include writing short stories and poetry, but I also enjoy playing the piano and violin. I am twenty years old and currently a pre-med student at my local university. My love for literature has shown through clearly in course schedule- I don't know many premeds who will also obtain a degree in literature (I'm double majoring). Aside from being a full-time student I also work two part-time jobs. I am a Pharmaceutical compounder at a local, independently owned pharmacy, and an EMT.
Most recently, my favorite writer would have to Aldous Huxley. During my summer break I read Brave New World, Island, The Doors of Perception, and The Devils of Loudun.
I also enjoy the works of Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes).
The poets I've tackled are William Butler Yeats (his complete collected poetry), William Blake (complete collected poetry), Emily Dickinson (complete collected poetry), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Various essays and poems), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Robert Frost (complete collected poetry), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Complete collected poetry), E.E. Cummings (complete collected poetry), and John Milton's Paradise Lost. I am currently working my way through the complete collected poetry of Pablo Neruda.
I'm looking forward to sharing ideas, playful debates and making friends with this community!
Greetings everyone... I'm new... just dropping in to say hi!
Sharonlee here... I am mostly involved in writing/poetry, graphic art and photograpry. Exploring photomanipulation more recently.
Would love to hear from any one... Peace & Friendship
Hi, everyone!
I am a high school student and I am interested in languages! even though i only do Japanese at the moment, i still would like to learn French, German and Italian, as well as other languages like Korean. umm... I like graphic books, animes and mangas but I also like reading novels like detective stories and investigation. and as you can see i always do exclamation marks! which is weird but i just do it unconsiously...
By the way guys, just wondering...why have you decided to join this site?
anyways that's all for now but hope to post more stuff later!
I actually just stumbled across this forum tonight while searching for something else on Google, but as always seems to be the case, I could not keep myself from checking it out. I am currently finishing my Masters degree, and oddly enough, the thing that pulled me in was a discussion of Joyce's Ulysses, which is the work to which I am currently dedicating the majority of my time. Hopefully, in the fall, I'll be moving on to a PhD program where I will come to the end of my English degrees, and I can begin teaching. Until then and, most likely, afterward, I'll be spending quite a bit of time with you folks. Glad to be here, and I look forward to some great conversations.
Hello, I'm The Inkwell. I enjoy fishing, hiking, camping, and cooking over an open fire. I like to spend any vacation time I get in parks or at home with a book and my laptop. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature, and I hope to continue in the acquisition of fancy, expensive receipts as I continue in that same literary vein of education.
I'm here for sharing thoughts, for learning new things, and for being of service to any who would ask for it.
Cheers!
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly." -- C. J. Cherryh
hi every body i am mohammad ali from Iran. i am really glad that i found this forum and website. i found it really interesting and useful. i am studying english literature and i want to know more about english literature thank u for you nice website.
Welcome all!
Litnet is also looking forward to have you benefiting us immensely by sharing your thoughts!Originally Posted by The Inkwell
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Hi there, my name is Alexandra, I live in Romania and I have a passion for books, cats and the geman language.
My favourite authors are Hermann Hesse, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde and Lucian Blaga. I am currently reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
I love black metal, death metal, folk, classical music and hard rock. One of my greatest wishes is learning russian- it's just such a beautiful language.
Cats are my favourite animals in the whole wide world, they are a symbol of beauty, grace and mystery. They can somtimes be much better friends than humans.
German is my favourite language- I speak it just as good as I speak romanian, almost all of the books I read are in german.
That sums up everything about me that's worth knowing. I'm looking forward to great discussions.
Hi everybody,
I have just viewed what may be the second known picture of Emily Dickinson and started checking out who and what the author/title of the 1950's book citing about the possibility of her being lesbian. I have checked a good many links and still have not been able to ascertain the books title/author. Does anyone have that info? I am a writer and researcher and usually can gather the needed info within a few hours but this one has me stumped! If Emily was gay it just adds to her unique charm and genius. I hope someone has what I am looking for. My curious mind just has to know so I can perhaps obtain the book. Thanks in advance, Kathie46
was emily dickinson lesbian?
Hi everybody,
I have just viewed what may be the second known picture of Emily Dickinson and started checking out who and what the author/title of the 1950's book citing about the possibility of her being lesbian. I have checked a good many links and still have not been able to ascertain the books title/author. Does anyone have that info? I am a writer and researcher and usually can gather the needed info within a few hours but this one has me stumped! If Emily was gay it just adds to her unique charm and genius. I hope someone has what I am looking for. My curious mind just has to know so I can perhaps obtain the book. Thanks in advance, Kathie46
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