Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[heyho]

Hi all,

I wanna write a lot, put it all here, and get my stuff reviewed. And eventually get better at writing. so pls pls help. Thanks a lot!! cheers!

[Pompey Bum]

Hey ho, heyho! Welcome. If you post it, they will criticize.

[parisaadlifar]

Hi everybody. I'm Parisa from Iran. I study master of English literature and these days Im occupied writing my thesis on Foucauldian study of post colonial novels.
I found Foucault so much dazzling but at the same time puzzling:-)
I found out this forum recently and joined today hoping that it would help me gqin the necessary data needed to pack for understanding this theorician.
nice to be here.

[Bjornnesss]

Hello ya'll. I have posted a few stories and poetry threads, and I would love it if people give me feedback on them.

[Pompey Bum]

Hey Bjorn, welcome to the site (or welcome back, I guess). My advice is to put a comment like this on each of those threads. People probably just missed them the first time.

[Xev]

Greetings!
This was the first community that popped up on my search so I decided to join. Looking forward to reading and hopefully participating. Cheers!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Xev. Hope it's participation, but enjoy yourself in any case.

[Rei]

Hi all, I've had a lifelong hatred for literature and reading in general, mainly because I was too impatient to absorb the material and/or had too short an attention span to appreciate it. Well, after suffering through countless literature/writing courses in my education, I've decided to give it a second try. A little background: classical music (the study and performance of) was the foremost passion of my life, but I've chosen to give it up because of personal reasons and time constraints. So this will be my opportunity to move on to another type of art, an art that is totally strange and frightening to me. Perhaps there were things about literature that I've overlooked, and will now come back to enlighten me.

I am currently reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Why these two books? On a whim, and by chance, these were the first two books I saw while dusting off a few boxes in the garage one day.

Pleasure to be here.

[Clopin]

Well if you hate reading I definitely would not start with The Idiot.

[Lykren]

Perhaps there were things about literature that I've overlooked, and will now come back to enlighten me.

Yeah no kidding. Clopin's right, The Idiot is not a great starting place. The Great Gatsby or Sense and Sensibility or Chekhov's short stories or Alice Munro or lots of others would be better.

[Rei]

The Idiot is not a great starting place.

Why? So far it hasn't been boring me, and I'm about a third of the way in.

[Pompey Bum]

Hi Rei! Welcome to the site. Perhaps what you were really hating all those years was having literature like The Idiot crammed down your throat because it was "something that you should read" rather than an emotionally rich (not to say excruciating) experience, and a book one might want to read. It's important to read what you love, and if you are enjoying Dostoyevsky, I recommend that you stick with him. The Brothers Karamazov is even better--his masterpiece, really.

By the way, your name means "of the thing " or "to the thing" in Latin, and could potentially be translated as "to the point." Did you do that on purpose? Or maybe it has something to do with classical music?

In any case, welcome to the site.

[Lykren]

Well, if you like it then keep going! It's just a rather dense, painful text for many readers. But like Pompey said, keep reading Dostoevsky if he speaks to you. Crime and Punishment is a blast.

Rei means zero in Japanese and is the name of a character from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Is that where your name is from? Who's right, Pompey, me, or neither?

[Clopin]

Why? So far it hasn't been boring me, and I'm about a third of the way in.

Well then you should be fine. A lot of people find The Idiot in particular to be quite boring, I don't but it wouldn't be my first choice with Dosto either.

Crime and Punishment, Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Gogol in general, Kurt Vonnegut in general, Fathers and Sons, Notes from Underground, Ivanov, The Catcher in the Rye, A Hero of Our Time and Watership Down are all books I would recommend someone who hasn't read much.

[kcranberries13]

Hi! My name is Katie and that is pretty much it!