Hi, I'm new
Hi, I'm new
Hi everyone. My name is Johnathan, John for short, and I just registered to the site. I joined on impulse after my teacher shared with me a thread talking about a book we are soon to read. I saw a small sample of what this forum has to offer. Everyone throws in their two cents and everyone can benefit from it! I love sharing ideas and perspectives on books that I have read or pretty much anything. I am a junior attending Whittier Technical Vocational Regional High school. I am also an athlete, I have a passion for basketball and meeting new people. I thank whoever started this forum and to my teacher for showing me this wonderful community.
My favorite book I have read so far was 'The kite Runner'. I have not been a big reader my whole life. When in middle school, I was a straight A+ student all the way up to eighth grade. Then when I enrolled in high school things kind of came to a stop. I picked my act up after some time and now I maintain A's and B's, rarely C's. My vocational area lies in the field of Telecommunications (Information Support Services.) I started an Internship with Raytheon IDS. Integrated Defense Systems has much to offer. It is also the most profitable branch of Raytheon as you might know. I specialize in computer hardware and have a strong feel for software as far as installing apps and programs for clients to use on their laptops. I troubleshoot computers when we notice a startup or hardware failure. I like where i am and hope to carry it on with me for the rest of my life.
When Im at home or hanging out with my friends like any person would, I listen to music and play sports. I have a craving for games of different sorts such as RTS, MMORPG, and FPS. Some games I play are Halo 3, Supreme Commander, and World of Warcraft. Music I listen to is heavy metal from bands like As I Lay Dying, Slipknot, Unearth and In Flames. I also have a thing for classic rock! I listen to AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, ZZ Top and Scorpions. Hip-hop, dance, and house music really get me going.
I am hungry for the knowledge and opinions of others. I think well of myself for my age and think I am slightly more mature than other kids of my age. I look forward to meeting everyone and hope I have fun here.
Thanks for reading
what in your view, what factors kept the Maurel family together
I have only written a few poems lately, as a respite from my usual work as a family law lawyer. I enjoy painting in acrylics, especially landscapes from southern Alberta and portraits, singing baroque music, hiking and just being in a forest, especially West Coast forests.
I have only written a few poems lately, as a respite from my usual work as a family law lawyer. I enjoy painting in acrylics, especially landscapes from southern Alberta and portraits, singing baroque music, hiking and just being in a forest, especially West Coast forests. Here is my poem:
Forests forever
I'd rather be a mossy patch beneath the cedar tree
than on a rooftop tennis court in Dubai country.
Solomon seals and huckleberry line my forest path
but the beauty is long forgotten by engineers doing math.
Science has measured each plant and species,
chemically explored new genetic possibilities,
so we tinkered and harvested,
we skim the cream of life;
our ordering brains exploit
so we might Survive
and breed
and grow each mother's child.
Maybe eternally our species will grow and recreate
taking more and more and more of precious living space
till the threshold point is reached,
and the balance is tipped,
and biobankruptcy is complete.
Only then as we slowly gasp and fade
into circumstances most forlorn
and pray that a saviour will come to the planet's aid
and remove its crown of circling strangling thorns
2. The dappled cedar canopy alive with exquisite mosses
simply cannot cooexist with corporate profit & losses.
The voices of birds suspended in silencio extremis
resonate in the cool misty forest epidermis
of fern and needle, leaf , vine and trunk
So Summon we, we command thee
the forest stewards of this century,
collectively, governmentally,
Those that know the forest spirit,
Decide now what is greed, then kill it;
Or answer to us,
the collective conscience of all human souls upon this planet
why is was necessary to disturb natures sanctuary,
for the golden egg and profit motive;
the Midas touch will leading us to the ultimate calamity.
The skin of our planet is daily torn away,
and stripped with hyper speed,
not radioactive decay
and ulcerated by our corporate maw,
the tentacles of our appetites grow
to reach and pull and extract unremittingly
the compounds we seek for our comfort, our wars, with no pity
for the interwoven fabric sublime
so nature we leave behind.
But stop,
let us not cause the forest to lose it's strength,
its power, its varied composition
its solitude and latitudinal position.
For the future is long, dark and confused.
And fertility may stop, and our golden age may set,
in a haze and effects of toxic contaminants;
Instead, leave the last few tracts now left in the wild,
and the grasses, jungles, forests and fields,
for our very very distant future human child
who we bless with the seas and the song of the wind
and the fruits of the sweetness of wisdom, but not our sins.
Have we not have enough in our homes, cars and planes
to stop the activity that may be insane?
Therefore, take less each day and share, content to just to be.
Try to limit consumption & harmful technology
so from your grave it can be said
that you had love for the planet.
Marvelous, MissScarlett; so glad to meet up with someone who loves "Sons and Lovers" as I do. Well, it is funny, as the avid fan of Lawrence that I am, the first book that turned me onto the author was not "Sons and Lovers", but rather "Women in Love", which followed it by a few novels. I still love that book the best for some reason but "Sons and Lovers' is only a hair behind now, especially since I realise how autobiographical it is, and also read it twice. I have read about 4 biographies of the author and much more resource material. The thing is when I first tried to read "Sons and Lovers" I could not get into it and then next try I could not put it down. I guess it was my timing. Now I have actually read L's first two novels "The White Peacock" and "The Trespasser". These are hard to find. We, on this site, are planning to read "The Rainbow" and discuss that sometime soon; maybe we can pull that off in the summer. I hope you can join in.Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Exactly my sentiments. I guess I have only read some short stories and 'Anna K', but I plan to read more T. I bought a few of his I have been interested in for sometime now. Of course someday I will tackle "War and Peace", but I haven't the patience to do so presently.I haven't read all of Tolstoy, either, but I've loved what I've read.
I wasn't a big Chekhov fan but now I got into his work from encouragement from another Litnet member and I enjoy and appreciate it very much. I would like to read his plays after the short stories; I recently bought a book of Russian plays. I have one set of short stories of Chekhov's narrated by Kenneth Branagh on a 3 CD set. I love listening to that set.Chekhov and Jane Austen are my favorites.
Don't worry - believe me, none of us are Shakespeare scholars or experts. We just work our way through them the best we can. Usually we end up learning from each other which is always the beauty of a forum discussion, don't you think?Yes, I do love Shakespeare, and will try to contribute to the discussion of Richard II, but I'm not Shakespeare expert! LOL Still, it doesn't get much better than the Bard.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Oh, Women in Love is a great book! That's another favorite of mine. I haven't read The White Peacock or The Trespasser. I love to read The Rainbow with you and others. I think it would be great for discussion and with Lawrence, there's always so much to discuss. I wish someone would do a collection of all of Lawrence's short stories like they do with other short story writers. I wonder if his novels have eclipsed his short stories in the publishing world?
It's always great to learn from one another. I'm glad I found a forum where people actually love to discuss literature. A lot of them I've participated in deteriorate into mindless chatter or arguing. It's nice to find one where actual discussion is going on.
Oh no Scarlett, you like Lawrence as well?I think you're going to fit in really well.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
What if the ways of the End were near and all things might soon fizzle and fray from the smoldering pain dealt betwixt one and an other?
Don't know where that came from. But seriously, what if?
In any event, here I am. I have arrived at this forum much to my liking as I now finally have a place to vent what I want which won't warrant wan wishes. Or maybe they will. The upshot is that here in this forum I have found a digital litterary corner where I can bask in the words of the great and have, at least, the potentiality of being agreed with.
Hi everybody ! Firstly, I want to tell you that I'm French, so, sorry if I don't write very well. I'm 16 ( 17 on April, 20th ^^) and I learn English since I was in primary school. I'm in high school. I love Literatur. I read since I learnt to read. Literatur is ma life. My favourites author are Jane Austen, Emile Zola, Flaubert...I love sisters Brontës too. I have a lot of favourite books, but I can say that the favourite of favourite is Pride&Prejudice. I'm crazy of Mr Darcy! I've read Pride&Prejudice, Persuasion, Sence&Sensibility, Northanger Abbey of Jane Austen. Mansfield Park's waiting me.
I read sometimes in English. I've read The Jane Austen Book Club and Christmas Tale by Charles Dickens.
I like " classic" book like Hugo's book for instance. I read sometimes literatur youth like Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling.
After high school I would like to study literature. I want to be journalist.
I think I've finished =) So, if you have some questions, I'll answer you.
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hello everybody! I'm a Brontë Sisters truly fan!
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hello everyone. I will refreain from writing a lengthy introduction. I am a highschool student and i love literature. Writing, reading , plays, all of it. I have loved to read since i was a young child ( im sure many of you consider me child because im a mere senior in highschool and so many of you are well beyond college, so i will be specific and say "young"). However im not much of a performer in the drama department, mainly because many of my best friends are fellow jocks. Yes I am quite the athlete and apparently im a rare breed , do to the athleticism and love for literature. It is for this reason I am greatful for wonderful message boards such as this one because i love to discuss literature and my best friend and fellow captain of the football team hasnt read a book for pleasure since the 5th grade. Im almost certain it was one from the Captain Underpants serie. so thanks.. by the way i just started getting into james joyce and i need a little help. Ive been reading about him because i feel to truely understand an artists work you must understand them as a person, for the most part. thanks everyone.
We had a wonderful discussion on "Women in Love"...I guess it was 2 yrs ago; am I right Virgil? The thread still exists, but must be way back there in the pages by now; sorry you were not around then. I need to copy that discussion as a text file to my HD; first I have to find it. It's my favorite Lawrence book. I read it twice and listened to the audio narration now, nearly twice. I love it. I love the beautiful writing in "The White Peacock" but it is an early work and has it's flaws; however, it's brilliant just the same, because the young Bert Lawrence was brilliant from the start. It is not an easy book to find. "The Trespasser" I read recently. It was really different and the prose was amazingly gorgeous. It felt like a long prose poem. I am surprised that more people do not read that book. I knew the background story of how it came about - the idea taken from a true, a story relayed by his friend Helen concerning her romantic but brief experience with a married man. One of his short stories relates to this novel, so that stimulated my curiosity.
Well, "The Rainbow" will no doubt be the next novel we all do; us Lawrence enthusiasts.
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Yes, Virgil, I think we found another person to recruit for the short stories. Lynne50 also likes Lawrence. This is great; always good to find new participants.Oh no Scarlett, you like Lawrence as well? I think you're going to fit in really well. Well, we're glad you found us.
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It is and we do that. Sometimes we start out with a Lawrence short story and some say they don't like this or that about the story, and by the end of the discussion, how much our perceptions have been altered. It is interesting to see that process and how we all learn from each other. I love the serious discussions we have had on here, too. There are still lots of threads that are 'light' and even pure nonsense, but sometimes sparks of genius do come through and YES, we do actually discuss literature here in quite a number of threads.It's always great to learn from one another. I'm glad I found a forum where people actually love to discuss literature. A lot of them I've participated in deteriorate into mindless chatter or arguing. It's nice to find one where actual discussion is going on.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
hi ,everyone just thought that i would say hello and that i'm getting ready to read war and peace any comments on getting through, thanks
Hi there! I'm a new Literature Network member. My special interests are James Joyce, Jane Austen, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I look forward to many conversations with you!
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