Appraise the Author

[Darlin]

A simple game, you give a brief opinion of the author that the person above has listed then either suggest another author at random for the next person or pass the question on. I'll start.

Edgar Allan Poe

Prolific, original, tragic, ahead of his time and the true father of sci-fi.

Same Author

[Pensive]

Brilliant and tragic.

Emily Bronte

[Nightshade]

morbid and annoying

Booth tarkington

[Darlin]

Amusing and insightful

William Shakespeare

[Kiwi Shelf]

No offense: But overdone... domineering of literature

Emily Dickenson

[starrwriter]

A sad little bird
Who could turn an apt word

Ernest Hemingway

[Kiwi Shelf]

crazy, liked the sea...

Carol Shields

Did I stump people or something o_o It died, I liked this game.

[Pendragon]

Little known Canadian writer

Mark Twain

[starrwriter]

"I'm not an American writer, I'm the American writer."

No false humility in Sam Clemens because he happened to be right IMO.

J. D. Salinger.

[emily655321]

"I like children and nobody else. Leave me alone!"

(Not an actual quote, believe it or not. ;))

Louisa May Alcott

[Loki]

New England writer most famous for her "Little Women" which is part autobiographical. Offers insights into early New England life and how poverty can be overcome by love and friendship.

Aldous Huxley

[Kiwi Shelf]

Memorable... even if you have never read a book by him, you know who he is.




Little known Canadian writer

Mark Twain

I suppose you would prefer Margaret Atwood :P (That's my person)

On an aside, Carol Shields is actually quite good... she passed away last year from cancer, but she wrote some interesting books in her time. She shouldn't be little-known, Canada needs to work on advertising their authors a bit better...

[Nightshade]

Rampent femminest who uses hushold objects alot as imagry.

P.G Wodehouse ( and I hope I spelt that right)

[Kiwi Shelf]

light use of satire, got knighted.

Miriam Toews.

[Pendragon]

Described as "darkly funny", sounds quite interesting, winner of Canada's premier prize for fiction, I'll have to check this one out, holds promise.

Dave Barry

[starrwriter]

Barry is a newspaper humor columnist in South Florida who retired recently. Not as talented as Carl Hiaasen, another South Florida writer whose novels are darkly funny and often involve tourists and/or developers being killed in horrible ways.

D. H. Lawrence.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Has transfixation with Freud's believe that little boys are in love with their mothers... "Sons and Lovers"

Jean Rhys-Davies

[Darlin]

Jean Rhys-Davies - always meant to read her Wide Sargasso Sea. I think she's best known for that book - in bringing to life the woman in the attic in Jane Eyre, Rochester's mad wife but other than that don't know much about her.

George Orwell

[Nightshade]

"all animals are equal but some ar more equal than others" more or less suums up his general disillusion with idealisims.

Oscar Wilde

[Scheherazade]

Genius is born--not paid.

Virginia Woolf

[Kiwi Shelf]

An intriguing author

George Eliot

[Nightshade]

A woman who scandalised her society, good writer though.

Henry fielding

[Scheherazade]

An author whose books I haven't read.

Wilkie Collins.

[Nightshade]

his name always makes me think of munchkins for some reason

virginia Woolfe

[Pensive]

I have not read any of the books of Virginia Wolf.

JK Rowling

[Kiwi Shelf]

Very very famous but, no offense to anyone, her stories lack... well, they lack lots of things....

Barbara Kingsolver

[Miss Darcy]

Barbara Kingslover is someone I must bashfully admit total ignorance of as a writer.

Hermann Hesse

[Kiwi Shelf]

I have never read him....

Elizabeth Strout - reading her right now... say good things so I know I am not wasting my time...

(I have turned my part of this into just naming an author my eyes fall on)

[Pendragon]

Elizabeth Strout: I thought I recognized the name, but wasn't sure so I goggled. I believe I've read some of her short stories, but don't hold me to that. Short stories are a weakness with me, I have bookshelves of anthologies for when I don't feel up to starting a novel. I see she won The Orange Prize for Fiction, 2000, and was published in The New Yorker as a short story writer. That's like the Holy Grail for short fiction, so she can write, so Kiwi, I don't think you are wasting your time!

H. P. Lovecraft

[Darlin]

An author famous for gothic, macabre stories, a contemporary of the talented Robert E. Howard and an admirer of the wonderful Edgar Allan Poe. Very intriguing works.

Sir Walter Scott

[kelby_lake]

I have no idea, sorry.

Franz Kafka

[Guinivere]

Oh Boy it is dusty in this thread.

Kafka, where to start better make it brief otherwise I'll never finish. Took me a while to make something of him. Now that I can (we discussed The Trial at length in class, and I wrote my German A-Level on the protagonist Josef K.), I must say I'm hooked. I would recommend his diary to anyone. His fears in life, appear so real, so human, you can get an inside into who he really was. If anyone could answer that question, and millions have tried, why not Kafka himself.

Terry Pratchett