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PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 04:32 PM
beat you to the punch and became the you that you were meant to be?
katie9trent
06-26-2007, 04:51 PM
I love that!
PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 04:57 PM
I love that!

Mme, or Mlle, as the case may be: I was not soliciting your opinion of this thread, but an answer to my question, which I would be happy to receive!

(You will I hope excuse my tone as I'm just reading the excellent Arthur & George by Julien Barnes and am at a part where some 19th C. constables are questioning people in their characteristically stiff, pompous manner...)
papayahed
06-26-2007, 05:00 PM
Neil Armstrong
Bakiryu
06-26-2007, 05:02 PM
Neil Gaiman (or Terry Pratchett)
andave_ya
06-26-2007, 05:18 PM
Dorothy L. Sayers!!! (One of two favorite authors)
PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 05:21 PM
Dorothy L. Sayers!!! (One of two favorite authors)


Ah yes, Lord Peter Wimsy (sp?), then... might be the other one be Josephine Tey? Ngaio Marsh? And have you had the pleasure of encountering the works of Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo?
andave_ya
06-26-2007, 06:32 PM
You've read Lord Peter! What did you think of him? I'm a blushing fangirl for him. Second favorite author --they're rather different from one another--is J.R.R. Tolkien, of LOTR fame. But the others you listed I've not heard of but for Ngaio Marsh. Who are the last two? They sound interesting.
PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 06:38 PM
You've read Lord Peter! What did you think of him? I'm a blushing fangirl for him. Second favorite author --they're rather different from one another--is J.R.R. Tolkien, of LOTR fame. But the others you listed I've not heard of but for Ngaio Marsh. Who are the last two? They sound interesting.

I can't bring myself to lie to a fellow member of this site: No, I've never read Dorothy Sayer because I'm of the impression that the writing is a bit stuffy. Sjowall and Wahloo were a married couple (Wahloo has since died) who wrote ten police procedural novels with recurring characters, chief of which was the excellent Martin Beck.

Josephine Tey's novels are of high quality and given your othre preferences I think you might especially like her The Daughter of Time, in which her usual detective, being confined to hospital bed, decides to investigate the alleged murder committed by Richard II (or III - I have trouble remembering which is which.).
Mortis Anarchy
06-26-2007, 06:41 PM
Pancho Villa, Robin Hood, Zapata, ummm Jimmy Page and Salvador Dali Andy Warhol and loads of writers.....:D All in one female form which=me!!!

Nah just kidding...probably just Villa and Dali.
PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 06:47 PM
Pancho Villa, Robin Hood, Zapata, ummm Jimmy Page and Salvador Dali Andy Warhol and loads of writers.....:D All in one female form which=me!!!

Nah just kidding...probably just Villa and Dali.

Ever see Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando? Maybe a glamourized treatment of Zapata.
Mortis Anarchy
06-26-2007, 06:49 PM
Ever see Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando? Maybe a glamourized treatment of Zapata.

LOVED IT!!! The thing about Villa is well, my great-great grandparents knew him...Villa helped them out...I'm not a big fan of the violence, but he helped a lot of people, as well as Zapata. There is a movie called Pancho Villa with Antonio Banderas...I haven't seen it. I think its funny how he plays Mexican characters when he is actually a Spaniard!!:D
PrinceMyshkin
06-26-2007, 06:54 PM
LOVED IT!!! The thing about Villa is well, my great-great grandparents knew him...Villa helped them out...I'm not a big fan of the violence, but he helped a lot of people, as well as Zapata. There is a movie called Pancho Villa with Antonio Banderas...I haven't seen it. I think its funny how he plays Mexican characters when he is actually a Spaniard!!:D

Swerving a little off-topic here (but you did mention Spain) have you seen Land & Freedom by Kenneth Loach? In my opinion a non-sentimental treatment of the Spanish Civil War. (The good guys lost, by the way...)
Mortis Anarchy
06-26-2007, 06:59 PM
Swerving a little off-topic here (but you did mention Spain) have you seen Land & Freedom by Kenneth Loach? In my opinion a non-sentimental treatment of the Spanish Civil War. (The good guys lost, by the way...)

Nope, I'll have to check it out. Keith Richards though, man, he got me beat. Radiohead in general too!!! and what about Shakespeare:D ...gotta tell you guys, but I am him reincarnated!! Haha, just playing...no i'm not insane!:D
Pensive
06-27-2007, 02:58 AM
No one. After all I was meant to be 'me'. :p
ampoule
06-28-2007, 12:07 PM
You drive a hard question. ;) And did you tell us yours????
PrinceMyshkin
07-03-2007, 07:54 PM
You drive a hard question. ;) And did you tell us yours????

If I might paraphrase a certain former President of yours: "Read my pseudonym!"
PrinceMyshkin
07-03-2007, 07:56 PM
No one. After all I was meant to be 'me'. :p

And what my I ask would be the title of the novel in which you were a character?
Pensive
07-04-2007, 07:19 AM
And what my I ask would be the title of the novel in which you were a character?

Not a novel really but my own autobiography which has not been published yet! :p :D
PrinceMyshkin
07-04-2007, 07:23 AM
Not a novel really but my own autobiography which has not been published yet! :p :D

Well, here are some possible titles for that rivetting, sometimes shocking account:


The Great Gatsby
The Sound and the Fury
Notes from Underground...
Visionary3
07-08-2007, 01:05 AM
Martha Stewart and Maxine. I just bask in their popularity and success.