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Oct 17, 2011 04:09PM

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For a literary club, we're not a very verbose bunch, are we?
I guess we'll have to work on our word power. Perhaps we can form a support group.
I never doubted either your intelligence or your education Carolyn. I was only being facetious.
Didn't think you were, but communicating through the internet makes me feel obliged to state the obvious being that we can't see each other's body language or hear each other's voices in order to avoid misunderstandings. I'm curious though.... why is your profile so closed? Yes, I peaked. Is your page R rated or are you just a private person?

13?! I guess they don't card on Goodreads. Granted, it's a small photo and hard to make out detail, but you look much older in it. So what are you reading lately?

Right now I'm reading your messages. In terms of books, I'm reading a book on Tibetan Buddhism and The Sorcerer's House. Wolfe is definitely a writer that writes outside the box.
It's not a series, just a single book. A man moves into a house that turns out to be a portal to Faerie. Subsequently, he has encounters in and around the house with various supernatural entities. It's a little unusual in that the story is conveyed in a series of letters from and and occasionally to the narrator.

p.s. to Craig: I do want to improve my English though. Do you have any suggestions?

I love reading fantasy, and LOTR is really awesome, even the language is really tough to read for me.. X)
Actually now, I'm on progress to writing my story, a classic fiction too.. And I hope I can learn, discussing, with all of you. To take a feedback/opinion, so I can learn improving my writing.. Thanks.. :)

Nice to meet everyone! Welcome!

I've just joined this group and I'm new to all this but I have read a lot of SF & Fantasy books although admittedly I've veered off the genre in recent years. I'm from Nottinghamshire, England. I'm pretty much constantly re-reading Lord of the Rings though and I never pass up a new Alastair Reynolds!

I have a short story up for you to read. Tell me what you think.


Anyway, welcome Carolyn!
p.s. to new amd old members: if you have any suggestions on how to improve this group please feel free to leave them on Comments and Questions thread or send us messages. Thanks.

I look forward to talking about fantasy fiction and Science Fiction with everyone!

nahh just kidding, I thought Kevin was funny, if not annoying at the same time.

Did you ever have the feeling that his next works would become so grand in scope and detail and enrich the little,- (people?) joke-, reading bug we all have inside us, more than a few decades later? I did not ether. Tolken played literature as if...he was the harp and we were the tune...
I do have one gripe about new novels, thought.
I understand, that some of us don't take notice of the finer points of literature and communication that tolken did, this one includes myself, no exception, esp. when you have little shelf space to work with. I am talking about, for example, the knowledge and use of slang that vary from district to district, from rich to poor, from community to community, and hell, now, from one website to another, to communicate a simple yet effective individual world model in which we each all live in. We all unconsciously exhibit and convey this information in body-languague and via communication to try and convey to another what our "world" is like, for us, to them, in real time. I think what makes for effective reading material is to convey that in imagination to the reader. The ability to communicate it through to the reader with the sense of depth so that no character is seen flat and without. Tolken even built another languague and seemingly built cultures based on simple observation, of, and, about, small characteristics of the human race. Just my opinon, anyway. Tell me what you think.
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