i decided copying and pasting the "READ ME" would be the simplest way to make sure i covered everything!

Where do you live?
South East England

How old are you?
Seventeen

Are you a male or female?
Male

How did you find BookTalk?
Through FaceBook

What type of books do you enjoy the most?
Early Gothic fiction. Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelley, &c.
Other than those, my favourite authors/poets include Donne, Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Dante, Carroll, Stoker, Austen, the Brontes, Poe, Goethe.

Are you married?
At my age?!

Have kids?
See above

Are you an animal lover?
Lover is such a strong word...i like some animals, my dog Sans and fish Mortimer "Monk" von Vladimir St. Aubert included.

Are you into camping, chess, kayaking, or hang gliding?
Certainly not.
Other than literature i enjoy music. Mostly metal (black metal, death metal, heavy metal, doom metal,thrash metal, &c.), but i listen to a lot of classical too.
Oh, and i play the guitar.

Where are you planning on going on vacation?
Nowhere in particular.

Where have you already explored?
England and parts of Japan.

What are your fears and dreams?
Too many to list.

Thank you for reading

Welcome to BookTalk.org. You're one of the few people that answered all those questions.

What the heck is doom metal? I've always loved heavy metal. but I don't understand all the sub-genres.

Hey, you're from England. Me too. Snap. What's your favourite Shakespeare piece? I'm doing an entire module on Shakespeare, starting on Friday. I'm thinking it was a rather ambitious choice, having only read three plays, a few sonnets and 'The **** of Lucrece'. (I don't like the R word....)

Anyway. Welcome.

Chris OConnor wrote:Welcome to BookTalk.org. You're one of the few people that answered all those questions.

What the heck is doom metal? I've always loved heavy metal. but I don't understand all the sub-genres.

Thanks

Doom Metal is characterized by very slow tempos and (generally) down-tuned guitars. Lyrics often about Witches or, as the name suggests, doom. Black Sabbath are sometimes called a Doom Metal band, but i think of them as a band which was a heavy influence on Doom.

Here are some examples of some of the best British Doom:) (Links are to YouTube) Feel free to have a look at them if you like, obviously it may not be everyone's cup of tea.
Rotting Misery - Paradise Lost
Equilibrium - Cathedral
Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General

And if you do like metal, i implore you to listen to this:
http://www.myspace.com/blazebayley

Blaze Bayley (no relation to me unfortunately), ex Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane vocalist. He has a new album coming out on February the first. Pre-orders for the album are available from the bands website, all will be fully signed by the band

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j.a.nicole wrote:Hey, you're from England. Me too. Snap. What's your favourite Shakespeare piece? I'm doing an entire module on Shakespeare, starting on Friday. I'm thinking it was a rather ambitious choice, having only read three plays, a few sonnets and 'The **** of Lucrece'. (I don't like the R word....)

Anyway. Welcome.

Thank you for the welcome

Hamlet, Othello or Macbeth are easily my favourite Shakespeare plays. i don't really have any preference over his poems, but i like what i've read

An entire module? Awesome Do you know what texts it includes? i'd love to be do something like that when (or if) i go to uni.

Yeah, Hamlet is pretty awesome. I studied it for A-level, and I've done Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, also.

An entire module? Awesome Do you know what texts it includes? i'd love to be do something like that when (or if) i go to uni.

I can tell you exactly what I'm studying, and when, because I'm a geek. I think this week we're just having an intro. to the context/history etc, but from Next week I'll be reading/studying the following:

• Misogyny?: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
• Protofeminism? John Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed; Or, The Woman’s Prize
• Tragic masculinities: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
• Society, clothing and genders: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
• Transgressive identifications: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The
  Roaring Girl
• Women and theatricality: James Shirley, The Bird in the Cage (available on EEBO)
• Women’s dramatic writing I: Margaret Cavendish, The Female Academy (available
  on EEBO)
• Restoration fops and rakes: George Etherege, The Man of Mode
• Women’s dramatic writing II: Aphra Behn, The Rover

So I suppose it's not all Shakespeare...but meh.

j.a.nicole wrote:Yeah, Hamlet is pretty awesome. I studied it for A-level, and I've done Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, also.

i've studied R&J and Twelfth Night too, but that was before i was interested in literature, so i found them rather dull...i should go back to them at some point, i suppose.

I can tell you exactly what I'm studying, and when, because I'm a geek. I think this week we're just having an intro. to the context/history etc, but from Next week I'll be reading/studying the following:

• Misogyny?: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
• Protofeminism? John Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed; Or, The Woman’s Prize
• Tragic masculinities: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
• Society, clothing and genders: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
• Transgressive identifications: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The
  Roaring Girl
• Women and theatricality: James Shirley, The Bird in the Cage (available on EEBO)
• Women’s dramatic writing I: Margaret Cavendish, The Female Academy (available
  on EEBO)
• Restoration fops and rakes: George Etherege, The Man of Mode
• Women’s dramatic writing II: Aphra Behn, The Rover

So I suppose it's not all Shakespeare...but meh.

Looks good to me (or at least, the bits i understand do...)

Black Sabbath used to be one of my favorite bands.