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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
Brilliant and tragic.
Emily Bronte
morbid and annoying
Booth tarkington
Amusing and insightful
William Shakespeare
No offense: But overdone... domineering of literature
Emily Dickenson
A sad little bird
Who could turn an apt word
Ernest Hemingway
crazy, liked the sea...
Carol Shields
Did I stump people or something o_o It died, I liked this game.
Little known Canadian writer
Mark Twain
"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.
"I like children and nobody else. Leave me alone!"
(Not an actual quote, believe it or not. ;))
Louisa May Alcott
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
Memorable... even if you have never read a book by him, you know who he is.
I suppose you would prefer Margaret Atwood :P (That's my person)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
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...
Rampent femminest who uses hushold objects alot as imagry.
P.G Wodehouse ( and I hope I spelt that right)
light use of satire, got knighted.
Miriam Toews.
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
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.
Has transfixation with Freud's believe that little boys are in love with their mothers... "Sons and Lovers"
Jean Rhys-Davies
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
"all animals are equal but some ar more equal than others" more or less suums up his general disillusion with idealisims.
Oscar Wilde
Genius is born--not paid.
Virginia Woolf
An intriguing author
George Eliot
A woman who scandalised her society, good writer though.
Henry fielding
An author whose books I haven't read.
Wilkie Collins.
his name always makes me think of munchkins for some reason
virginia Woolfe
I have not read any of the books of Virginia Wolf.
JK Rowling
Very very famous but, no offense to anyone, her stories lack... well, they lack lots of things....
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingslover is someone I must bashfully admit total ignorance of as a writer.
Hermann Hesse
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)
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
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
I have no idea, sorry.
Franz Kafka
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