Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[Debbie Martin]

Hello everyone, I've just joined and am introducing myself in the the good old polite way we Brits have. I'm very excited - and sacred - that my first novel is released in less than two weeks time and I'm already getting a few reviews on Amazon as the Kindle version went up last month before the release of the print version. I suddenly understand what it means to stand metaphorically naked in front of the word and expose your innermost thoughts and your psychological make-up- because that's what you do every time you write something. Anyway, I'm looking forward to sharing ideas and support on here - so hi!

[2X2E5]

Hello online-literature community, its a pleasure reading all your post! I've been browsing around this website like a shadow for the last two weeks reading posts on Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Goethe's Sorrow of Young Werther, a recent most on Marxists, and other books and philosophies, and I must say I've never been so excited to join an online forum community before! I apologize in advance for grammatical mistakes...my English is fairly poor because I used to skip English class...: /
Anyways, I've finally got myself into the habit of reading and hope our literary adventures cross sometime in the future!
-David

[FatElvis]

I thought it may be fun to write some stories. But I'm sure they'll be terrible, so I thought maybe some constructive criticism may help improve my efforts.

I like literary criticism, but reading less-so. Hopefully I can still be of some use to others anyway.

[J.S. Ven]

Hey all, I'm not sure what sort of introduction to give really... but I'll just get to it!

I'm currently in my senior year of highschool, I work at a carwash near Minneapolis (which is, to put lightly, dreadful in the cold months). I try to stay involved in the Minneapolis/St. Paul music scene. I'm a bassist and guitar player with inclination towards everything from Chet Baker to Chet Atkins, The Ramones to A Tribe Called Quest, and just about everything in between. I mostly plan on using the site for getting recommendations on what to read first from new writers I learn of. I'm a pretty big fan of Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Emerson, Bukowski (what can I say, I'm an angsty teenager). Anyways, Hello!

[Wajeeha Alvi]

waji here, m new here and m a university student

[Acid park]

Hi all, I'm a Masters student in England studying political theory. None of my current friends seem to like literature to the same degree I do, so I need a place to discuss it properly!
Currently reading Lolita and Hitchen's memoirs.

[jstuart]

Hello the Forum:

My name is James. I've just checked in here and I shall read through a few threads before jumping in anywhere.

At the moment I'm reading H G Wells' Experiment in Autobiography and Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.

[4504]

Hello to all

too much to list and hate talking about myself, lots of government service, lots of military, too much education. nearly my entire purpose for the last 10 years has been writing a screenplay/movie, building working props for the movie, etc. i would mention it here but i do not to be in violation of any link rules or seem like i'm promoting it here... suffice to say maybe the ebook is a screenplay for the movie is already out and is mainly about giving some kind of closure for the most determined Coyote and speediest Roadrunner in history... we've had live-action movies adapted from just about every classic cartoon or action heroes in the past (batman, superman, spiderman, transformers, flinstones... you get the picture), but nothing about them... I hope to remedy that. The script is under private review right now by a studio but it is a very long road. I have a website just for the whole project but I do not think I can mention it or the book/movie's title per the rules. that's ok. i would there would be little more irritating than a newby coming on here, promoting their book or whatever and then dissapearing. i know it would irritate me unless it was a thread just for that purpose. but suffice to say i am consumed with this project. ok, other than that...

I like to read of course, classic movies (nightmare alley on right now), build machines, talk. i live one mile from the beach but in the last 10 years i've seen it less than a dozen times. i do live on a boat in a marina in texas, will be moving back to california soon. was married once and do have an adult child, lonely but not enough to do anything about it. always was a loner anyways, even when i was married... i love the philippines, may be moving there someday, have visited there several times.

hope to get to maybe get to know a few of you here and see what the deal is... best of luck to all

[Scotty Gdog]

Hi all, my name is Scott. I just joined. I love reading, just got the new Kindle Paperlight, so I'm reading even more than usual. I love everything: fiction, non-fiction, history, the classics, best-sellers, fantasy... My two all time favorites are Hugo's Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Right now I'm reading Don Quixote. I also like to write very short poems and stories.

[Bibliophile79]

Hi all, my name is Marcus and I love to read. Probably read close to 500 novels so far. I'm currently an assistant librarian at a school. Some of my favorite authors include Shakespeare, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett

My favorite books include Les Mis, Lord of the Rings, The Stand, IT, The Princess Bride, Don Quixote, Hitchhiker's Guide

This looks like a cool place. Hope to be here for a while

[qimissung]

Hi, and welcome everybody-Fat Elvis, 2X, Bibliophile, Scotty, JStuart, Acid, Silas. I've already seen some of your posts. Glad to see you leaping into the fray, as it were.

[Euclid]

I love building machines too. I own a small company and make custom electronics for large companies. I love creating a machine in my imagination and making it real, step by step. From soldering to C++.

What kind of machines do you build? Are these your movie props?

Nice to meet you qim. Great avatar. I just finished the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I'm definitely going to read more Victor Hugo.

My name is Nick and its nice to meet everybody.

I found this forum while researching mental blindness. If you guys aren't familiar with the condition, it means you can't produce any mental images. It afflicts 3% of the population and the only known cause is hypoxia at birth. I was a blue baby and I'm mentally blind. I'm also the only avid reader I know who has this condition. Usually readers are the best visualizers, from the 5% of the population with an eidetic memory, who can read the word tree and count the leaves on it. To me its just a word, but I'm hoping to change that. I'd love to hear from anyone who is mentally blind, has info on it, or just wants to discuss it. Outside of my work in engineering, literature is probably my biggest interest and I want to learn to fully appreciate it.

I enjoy early 20th Century lit, especially the Lost Generation (Fitzgerald/Hemingway/Dos Passos), Depression generation (Bowles/Burroughs), and the WW2 generation (Kerouac/Mailer/Vidal). I also love logically constructed mysteries where you can use the details to figure out what's going on and predict the ending, like Philip K Dick's Gameplayers of Titan and Ray Chandler's Big Sleep. I also enjoy the entire spectrum of sci fi, from the hard (Verne/Clarke/Asimov/Pynchon) to the soft (Wells/Herbert/Dick). In all these genres I love big novels where you watch a group of characters interacting to produce a chain of events, like an evolving system. Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and Mailer's Naked and the Dead are good examples. Kerouac's Town and the City is a less organized, more impressionistic version of that.

[Cyrine.Châbani]

Hello, my name is Cyreen, 16 years old form. Reading and writing are my favourite passtimes. I like reading/watching mangas, psychology, philosophy... ehh well I don't have too much to say about myself.. I'm still a beginner but I'm working hard to improve my skills.. My favourite authors are Edgard Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, Dan Brown and so many others.. I tend to like novels/tales/poems of mystery and the macabre and religious texts. That's all. ( Welcome to the new members )

[Chungsoo J. Lee]

Hello, I'm new. I had difficulty getting back to selecting "Authors" once I am in the Forums. How do I get back to "Authors" from "Forum"?

[Calidore]

Hello, I'm new. I had difficulty getting back to selecting "Authors" once I am in the Forums. How do I get back to "Authors" from "Forum"?

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