Hi and welcome from me. You will enjoy your wanderings here, trust me!
Hi and welcome from me. You will enjoy your wanderings here, trust me!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Hi everybody.
I just joined this forum and excited to read the discussions. Some of my favorite books are Sun Also Rises, 100 Years of Solitude, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jesus' Son, to name a few. I am about to start reading Brothers Karamazov this week.
Greetings!
Just want to say hi! and that I'm happy to be here!
Coincidentally, I've started the Brothers Karamazov and am finding it to
be quite interesting. In fact, I like Russian literature very much.
I still have sooo much to read. However, I'm happy to be a member here
so I can receive some insight on many great works; insight I would
never be able to receive on my own.
Take care folks and ciao for now!
Last edited by tomasso; 03-30-2007 at 01:22 AM.
Hello all!
This is me in a nutshell: Pedro Querido, 19, Portugal, college, English and German Literature and Culture, like sport, talk, fool around, think.
Read: poetry (Pessoa, Rilke, Frost), prose (Eça, Kafka, Dickens), and plays (Beckett, Miller); portuguese, english and (some) german.
First impression? I love the atmosphere. Everyone seems to be very pleasant and helpful. I'm pleased to have joined this community!
Welcome to you, 80k, tomasso and kandaurov -- we are happy to see you and look forward to speaking with you soon!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Hello everyone,
My name's Susana, I'm 17 (18 in fifteen days, actually), born and living in Lisboa, Portugal.
At the moment I am really into portuguese poetry (to name a few: Fernando Pessoa, Nuno Júdice, António Ramos Rosa, Al Berto, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen).
Now, favourite books (the hardest part)... I'll just name some books which I had real pleasure reading, don't really like to pick "all time favourites" - at least not at my age, when I still have so much to read...
1984 - George Orwell
The Perfume - Patrick Süskind
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Process - Franz Kafka
(Short Stories and stuff)
Three Stories and a Reflection - Patrick Süskind
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
London - Virginia Woolf
(Olá kandaurov!)
Hello
My name's Heike. I've already made a few posts here but I figured I should stop hiding in the shadows!
I'm not sure how much I stack up age-wise here (I'm 17). I'm going to New York University in the fall.
I am sure I share a passion with everyone here for reading. I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, and plan on starting Anna Karenina soon (Russian kick anyone?). I also love poetry--T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings are among my favorites. I can't possibly make a list of my favorite books though! You'll just have to get to know the millions of them one at a time ;]
Heike Marie;
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
[ee cummings]
Welcome Susana! Some great books you have there!
Welcome heike! Some fantastic taste you have there as well! Havent read Brothers Karamazov but i did LOVE Crime and Punishment
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I loved the Brothers Karamazov. In fact, I would call it one of my favorite books...however there are many books on that listWelcome the forums anyway! I am just back on the forums after a long absence and it's good to be back. I'm hoping that I will be able to drop by more often now that I am not so busy. Again welcome to the forums and happy reading!
"Life is a journey, not a destination"
Currently Reading: Catcher In The Rye, Siddartha
Hello everyone. I've finally gathered the courage to post here! :P Surprisingly, my real name is Laurette, I'm a 19 year old South African. I'm rather into English literature at the moment. All those 19th century authors, ya know?
I can't for the life of me say who's my favourite author, or book. I'm pretty con-committal, I guess. I find it rather restrictive to have to decide on a favourite. (Can't even decide on a style...) Although, at the moment at least, my favourite poem is Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. There's such a wonderful energy to it!
Hey Khanyi! It's so good to see another South African here! Yay!
Last edited by Laurette; 04-01-2007 at 04:20 PM.
"There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas."
Welcome Laurette and Heike( I've seen you a couple times around
And literaturerocks, you were here before me, but, welcome back.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Hello, My name is Theodore (the real one) lots of people call me dore, so I figured what's the most beautiful word in the English language?...Cellar door (ok, that's two words, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but humor me) or Cellar Dore.
So I am Cellar Dore, but you can call me Dore if you like.
Oh, hello up there, I just read Brothers Karamazov a couple months ago--great book.
I had to read a couple reviews/commentaries (that's actually how I came across this cite!) on it to really appreciate its true depth--especially on chapters like the Grand Inquisitor--I didn't realize some of the deeper metaphors until after I had read it.
See you all around.
Dore
Last edited by ~Cellar_Dore~; 04-02-2007 at 01:00 PM.
Hello, Mr. Dore! Glad to have you here.
I haven't read much of the Russian classics yet, I'm too much into Dickens and classic sci-fi right now! I have read Crime and Punishment, though. Excellent book. My dad says that the sci-fi classics aren't worth reading. Well a big >: p to him.
Anyways, welcome to all!
Last edited by Lily Adams; 04-02-2007 at 04:45 PM.
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
OOOO, Brothers!!!Originally Posted by 80k
Welcome!
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
Hello, Mr. Dore! Glad to have you here.
I haven't read much of the Russian classics yet, I'm too much into Dickens and classic sci-fi right now! I have read Crime and Punishment, though. Excellent book. My dad says that the sci-fi classics aren't worth reading. Well a big >
Anyways, welcome to all!
It's so interesting how many people have read Crime and Punishment and haven't read Brothers Karamazov, which is better, in my opinion; and in many others also.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
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