2007 Author Nominations

[Nightshade]

errrm Tal isnt that a book rather than an author? I just wikkied and it cam up as Lovecroft. It sounds very interesting though.

actually the more I read the more confused I am Who am I looking at?

[Scheherazade]

1. Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski - Taliesin

2. John Updike - Pensive

3. Salman Rushdie - Schokokeks

4. Cormac McCarthy - Virgil

5. Truman Capote - Papayahed

6. Kurt Vonnegut - Charles Darnay

7. Oscar Wilde - Bazarov

8. D.H. Lawrence - Jamesian

9. Milan Kundera - Superunknown

10. Henry Rider Haggard - Grace86

11. Philip Roth - SleepyWitch

I have recently read Everyman by Roth and was not very impressed.

[Taliesin]

errrm Tal isnt that a book rather than an author? I just wikkied and it cam up as Lovecroft. It sounds very interesting though.

actually the more I read the more confused I am Who am I looking at?

No, it is a fictional author.
There is a mythical very evil book called Necroconicom in Lovecraft mythos, its' readers go insane and tend to die horrible deaths. Abdul Alhazred is the author of that book.

[SleepyWitch]

I have recently read Everyman by Roth and was not very impressed.

i haven't read it yet.. still trying to catch up with his latest book before that (The Plot Against America).. hehe, I didn't even know about Everyman before i read your msg.
um, I'd recommend Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain or The Dying Animal...
that's the ones I remember definitely... i read a couple of others (the Zuckerman ones and some others about the guy from The Dying Animal) but they are all blurred and merged into one book in my mind... maybe the political ones are more distinctive?

[Scheherazade]

I have not read any other books by Roth and I don't mind giving him another try if it is chosen.

I think the topic of Everyman did not agree with me as its timing was not very good and it was somehow too close to home, too near the bone... but c'est la vie!

I cannot decide whom to nominate either... Thinking of Stephen King, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ian McEwan...

[Schokokeks]

I cannot decide whom to nominate either... Thinking of Stephen King, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ian McEwan...

May I humbly suggest Ian McEwan ? There were about five people recommending his books to me, especially Saturday. Plus, he's still alive and not one of

the 19th century and all that brain numbing stuff

that Nighty despises for this year

[Nightshade]

that Nighty despises for this year

I dont despise them Im just a bit sick of them really ( and I havent read as many as most people here) I actually quite like them but I never read the "worthy" stuff I prefer the stuff that seems to have slipped through the usual nets. D. M. Mullock Craik, The more obscure L M Alcotts, E H porter , Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Maria edgeworth, George macdonald.Fanny Burney and thats just 19th centurey.

[aeroport]

Can James and Wharton not both - technically - be considered "20th"-century?

[Scheherazade]

May I humbly suggest Ian McEwan ? There were about five people recommending his books to me, especially Saturday. Plus, he's still alive and not one of that Nighty despises for this year

I have been wanting to read his Atonement since last year but never had the chance. So, I might go ahead and nominate him.

Can James and Wharton not both - technically - be considered "20th"-century?

I don't have any problems with 19th century authors actually; I will read almost anything and everything (Have read since every single BC book chosen since I joined the forum.) I have read only one of book of both James and Wharton and I really liked their styles and would like to explore their works more... whether through the BC or not

[papayahed]

I have not read any other books by Roth and I don't mind giving him another try if it is chosen.

I think the topic of Everyman did not agree with me as its timing was not very good and it was somehow too close to home, too near the bone... but c'est la vie!

I cannot decide whom to nominate either... Thinking of Stephen King, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ian McEwan...

Wouldn't it be neato to open it up so that we can nominate 2???? That would really broaden the field and perhaps make it more exciting?

[Scheherazade]

Wouldn't it be neato to open it up so that we can nominate 2???? That would really broaden the field and perhaps make it more exciting?

That is a good suggestion actually. If we don't have 20 nominations by September 23rd, we might start accepting the second nominations (during the last week of the nominations).

[papayahed]

That is a good suggestion actually. If we don't have 20 nominations by September 23rd, we might startaccepting the second nominations (during the last week of the nominations).

All Right!!!

[superunknown]

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.

You've never read any Oscar Wilde, have you? Try reading The Importance of Being Earnest or The Picture of Dorian Grey (especially Lord Henry Wotton's witticisms) and then tell me with a straight face that Wilde isn't fun.

However, I've already cast my nomination, but if anyone wants a writer who's uproariously funny, you should nominate Joseph Heller. Or I'll nominate him if no one else does and we open up to 2 nominations per person.

[Virgil]

You've never read any Oscar Wilde, have you? Try reading The Importance of Being Earnest or The Picture of Dorian Grey (especially Lord Henry Wotton's witticisms) and then tell me with a straight face that Wilde isn't fun.

However, I've already cast my nomination, but if anyone wants a writer who's uproariously funny, you should nominate Joseph Heller. Or I'll nominate him if no one else does and we open up to 2 nominations per person.

Yes, I've read The Importance of Being Ernest and found it to be a lot of fun.

[bazarov]

You've never read any Oscar Wilde, have you? Try reading The Importance of Being Earnest or The Picture of Dorian Grey (especially Lord Henry Wotton's witticisms) and then tell me with a straight face that Wilde isn't fun.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is really an excellent book.