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Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski
John Updike
Salman Rushdie
Cormac McCarthy
Truman Capote
Kurt Vonnegut
Oscar Wilde
D.H. Lawrence
Milan Kundera
Nine nominations so far... Hey, if it goes like this, maybe we won't even have to vote to pick the authors to read! :brow:
Oh God is that a boring group. We have to get some fun writers or we will be bored to tears and everyone will lose interest.
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Originally Posted by Virgil
I do not know why, but the way you worded that just sounded funny. Yes, if this is such a boring group, we certainly do not want to read MULTIPLE BOOKS by any of them to fill out the other quarter-year. Nominate, folks!
Henry Rider Haggard anyone?!
I always thought his books were awesome.
Contrary to my previous statement on not wanting to nominate an author...I think I will nominate!
(sigh of relief) Much obliged.Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Philip Roth?
This is tooooo difficult cant we just use author nominations for3 quarters of the year and genre for the rest??:D:D:D
I didnt think so but its worth a try.
Like who? Im stumped for the life of me I cant think of a fun author :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I tell you what, Virg you sugeest a few and Ill nominate one :nod:
Oh wait Im NOT nominating here but scher how would you feel about another Dan Simmons?
I like t when scifi/fantasty sees to be sayng somthing deeper. :lol:
Three funny writers I can think of are David Lodge, Martin Aimis, and Saul Bellow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
lodge isnt that talking heads http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/1196.gif humm no he isnt but I know that name :confused:why do I know that name?!
humm havent heard or atleast registered the other 2 before.
STILL NOT NOMINATING Isabelle allande I quite liked house of spirits even if itwas majourlly wierd and Iwant to read her version of Zorro!:D ( Ok so thats my zorro obsession expressed for this half year)
Attwood? A lot of her work is depressing and rampantly feminist I know but I just love the way she uses words and Alias Grace wasnt that bad and Im sure we could find another.
What we need is somthing we can really get our teeth into and argue (nicely of course!) about without having our brains numbed.
In fact Scher if you dont mind when I decide what I want to nominate Ill put it in a post on its wth the titl nomination that way I can think out loud and really think about it before I nominate.
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Originally Posted by Virgil
I know I shouldn't but I just can't resist......I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!:bawling:
shouldnt you have a nana for I told you so ? followed by bawling!
So what are you going to do about it Papaya??
Ditto.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Come on, we need to get some compensation for the victory of the author system.
So: we told you so!
try to read the books that win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
:rolleyes: that wasnt what I meant!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
What if we nominated Abdul Alhazred?
We have heard that his writings are very thrilling, although perhaps not very modern.