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SeeZeroSky
11-19-2010, 06:57 PM
If you could combine attributes taken from several different writers to create one 'super-writer,' who would you use and why? The terseness of Hemingway? The realism of Steinbeck? The obscurantist humptyhillhead of Joyce?
Kyriakos
11-19-2010, 07:13 PM
Hm, De Maupassant's logical mind (before he became ill) combined with Kafka's hyper-analytical powers perhaps.

I mostly like analytical symbolism though :)
PeterL
11-20-2010, 11:16 AM
Edmondson for theme and plot overview, de Camp for plot continuity and characterization, Twain for twists and humor. What else would anyone want?
jhampton002
11-26-2010, 11:33 AM
I would like to see Steinbeck and William Jennings Bryan. That would be very interesting.
PeterL
11-27-2010, 10:55 AM
I would like to see Steinbeck and William Jennings Bryan. That would be very interesting.

Yes, that would be interesting but not in a pleasant way.
MANICHAEAN
11-27-2010, 12:54 PM
The soaring prose of Gibbon, the terseness of Hemingway & the interior decor expertise of Raymond Chandler. Mutually incompatible!
PeterL
11-27-2010, 02:19 PM
The soaring prose of Gibbon, the terseness of Hemingway & the interior decor expertise of Raymond Chandler. Mutually incompatible!

You could cut out Chandler and have no words left. What Gibbon would write; Hemingway would edit out, and vice versa.
Clockdeth
11-27-2010, 04:34 PM
Uh, is being original to begin with an option...?
teddybear22
11-28-2010, 11:58 AM
I say JK Rowling :) (http://semarangbisnis.info) because she created a whole new dimension or world within the books of harry potter
Clockdeth
11-29-2010, 05:59 PM
I say JK Rowling :) (http://semarangbisnis.info) because she created a whole new dimension or world within the books of harry potter

No she didn't.

Wizards/magic were around WELL before Harry Potter, which would be more so true if they, some how, actually existed at some point....:out: