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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3440 on: July 07, 2013, 01:48:03 PM »
 


Welcome to Author! Author!  

This is a game in which the contestants match their wits with a  challenger, who suggests a character in literature, non- fiction or fiction. The challenger may or may not provide more clues, his prerogative,, and never more than one a day.


Once a day the challenger will say if the guesses are correct or not. The winning contestant gets lots of acclaim and the chance to pose the next challenge. If he does not want to post a new challenge he can say so and whoever does can begin a new game.

Of course you could look these up on google in an instant, what challenge is that? The  idea is to rack one's brain to try to remember where this particular character appeared and who wrote about him/ her. Should be great fun.

The challenger also has the option not to mention the name of the character, but only a description.


Authors used so far:

Author, Book, Character, Challenger, Post#, winner

Anonymous, Beowulf, Beowulf, PatH, #1301
Arlen, Michael, The Green Hat, straudetwo, #2711, roshanarose
Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin, Gumtree, #277
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett, #158
Baden-Powell, Robert, Scouting for Boys, Frybabe, #2847, rosemarykaye
Banks, Lynn Reid, The L-Shaped Room, Jane Graham, Rosemarykaye, #1785, unguessed
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, JoanK, #342
Bennett, Alan, Uncommon Reader, Queen Elizabeth II, rosemarykaye, #1605, pedln
Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, Lorna Doone, Frybabe, #462
Boswell, James, Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Frybabe, #2755, PatH
Bradbury, Ray, Something Wicked This Way Comes, G. M.Dark, Frybabe #3356, PatH, #3358, straudetwo
Brittain, Vera, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, rosemarykaye, #3091, Frybabe
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Burns, Olive, Cold Sassy Tree, pedln, #1594, rosemarykaye
Camus, Albert, The Stranger, Meursat, JudeS, #3196, JoanK, #3194, Frybabe, #3195, PatH
Carnegie, Dale, How to Win Friends and Influence People, JoanK, #310, Frybabe
Carroll, Louis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice, JoanK, # 426
Cervantes, Don Quijote, Don Quijote, PatH, #701
Chesterton, Gilbert K., The Father Brown books, Father Brown, PatH, #2179, JoanK
Child, Julia, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, butter, PatH, #2546, pedln
Christie, Agatha, Hastings, JoanK, # 127
Christie, Agatha, Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot, JoanK, #752
Clancy, Tom, Hunt for Red October, Frybabe, #553
Clarke, Arthur C., Rendezvous with Rama, roshanarose, #2064
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark
Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace, David Little, Straudetwo, #1336
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, Rachel Verinder, PatH, #311
Connolly, John, The Book of Lost Things, roshanarose, #2746, Frybabe
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, Gumtree, #226
Conroy, Pat, The Great Santini, Conroy's father, JudeS #1319
Costain, Thomas, The Silver Chalice, Basil, Frybabe, #3123, JudeS
Cronin, A. J., The Citadel, Andrew Manson, JudeS, #1085
Davies, Robertson, The Cunning Man, Jonathan Hullah,  straudetwo, #1382
Dickens, Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Drood, PatH, #2227, rosemarykaye, #2283, Gumtree
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment, Roskolnikov, JudeS, #1209, 1213
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson, PatH, #380
Dubus III, Andre, House of Sand and Fog, Col. Behrani, straudetwo, #3165, Frybabe
Dumas, Alexandre pere, The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, PatH, #939, 941
DuMaurier, Daphne, Rebecca, the nameless narrator, Gumtree, straudetwo and rosemarykaye, #1924
Ebers, Georg, Arachne, Arachne, Frybabe, #3227, straudetwo
Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda, Gumtree, #190
Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Bustopher Jones, PatH, #110
Essex, Karen, Leonardo's Swans, Isabella d'Este, Mippy, #591
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury, Caddy, 1429, 1439, Frybabe
Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones, Tom Jones, PatH, #3318, rosemarykaye.
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, Frybabe, #2607, rosemarykaye
Forster, E. M., Passage to India, Frybabe, #2240, rosemarykaye
Fowles, John, The Collector, Frederick and Miranda, roshanarose, #2903, JudeS
Frankel, Bruce, What Shall I Do with the Rest of My Life? Frybabe, #2825, PatH
Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga, Irene, PatH, #615,620
Gardner, Martin, The Ambidextrous Universe, Frybabe, #3398, PatH
George, Elizabeth, Lynley and Havers, Tomereader1, #168
Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Zenobia, Frybabe, roshanarose, #2003, 2011
Gilbert, W. S., The Savoy Operas, Frederick, or the Pirate King, #1108, 1111, 1112
Golding, William, Lord of the Flies, JudeS, #3139, straudetwo
Goodall, Jane, In the Shadow of Man, Flo, JoanK, #2815, Frybabe
Goodman, Carol, The Night Villa, the slave girl, Gumtree, # 1165
Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows, Mr. Toad, rosemarykaye, #3362, PatH
Greene, Graham, The Third Man, Holly Martins, PatH, ##1175, 1179
Grey, Zane, Riders of the Purple Sage, Frybabe, #294, 299
Hamill, Pete, Tabloid City, pedln, #2662, straudetwo
Hardy, Thomas, Far From the Madding Crowd, roshanarose, #1741, rosemarykaye
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingsworth, Frybabe, 2368, 2373, pedln
Henry, O., Mammon and the Archer, Anthony Rockwall, Ginny  #537
Hesse, Herman, The Glass Bead Game, straudetwo, Frybabe, #1962
Heyerdahl, Thor, Early Man and the Ocean, Frybabe, #3035, 3044, PatH
Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables, JoanK, # 1904, Gumtree
Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables, straudetwo, #2698, rosemarykaye
Irving, John, The World According to Garp, pedln, #2401, straudetwo
James, Henry, Washington Square, straudetwo, #981, 982
James, Henry, Wings of a Dove, Kidsal, #83
James, P. D., Devices and Desires, Inspector Dalgleish, #3430, rosemarykaye
Jenkins, Peter, A Walk Across America, Frybabe, #2641, pedln
Johnston, George, My Brother Jack, Gumtree, #2311, roshanarose
Keller, Helen, The Story of my Life, Anne Sullivan, JoanK #958
Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible, pedln, #2581, rosemarykaye
Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, the lama PatH, #3023, JudeS
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace, pedln, #2560, Frybabe
Lagerlof, Selma, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Nils Holgersson, JudeS #899
Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake, the boy, Frybabe, #4110, pedln
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales From Shakespeare, Macbeth, JoanK, #1301
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di, The Leopard, Don Fabrizio, Gumtree, Frybabe and straudetwo, #2031, 2032
Larson, Erik, Devil in the White City, pedln, #2226, Frybabe
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley, rosemarykaye, #2591, Frybabe
LeFanu, Sheridan, Carmilla, roshanarose, #769
Lessing, Doris, The Grass is Singing, straudetwo, #2432, Frybabe
Li, Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin, Gumtree, #1713, roshanarose
Lofting, Hugh, Dr. Doolittle, Dr. Doolittle, rosemarykaye, #2875, roshanarose
Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizon, Laurie, rosemarykaye, #2494, straudetwo
Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince, straudetwo, 3446, Frybabe
Mankell, Henning, Italian Shoes, Frederick Welken, Frybabe, #3179, 3182, JudeS
Mann, Thomas,Joseph and his Brothers, JudeS, #2934, straudetwo
Maupin, Armistead, Tales of the City, rosemarykaye, #1553, pedln
McCourt, Frank, Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, JoanK, #1062
McCullers, Carson, Member of the Wedding, straudetwo, pedln, #1859
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, the whale, PatH, #482
Miller,Arthur, Death of a Salesman, Gumtree, #1005, 1006
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Frybabe, #413
Mitford, Nancy, roshanarose, #839, 840
Moon, Elizabeth, Remnant Population, Ofelia, Frybabe, #3274, PatH
Murdoch, Iris, The Sea, the Sea, Charles Arrowby, straudetwo, #1197, 1198
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, Lolita, JudeS, #1124
O’Brian, Patrick, Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey, JudeS, #319
Oe, Kenzaburo, The Changeling, Frybabe, #2998-9, PatH, JudeS
O'Hara, John, Appointment at Samara, straudetwo, #4471, Frybabe
Orwell, George, Frybabe, #97
Ovid, Metamorphosis, Frybabe, roshanarose, #1985
Parker, Dorothy, Big Blonde, straudetwo, #2505, rosemarykaye
Pearl, Matthew, The Dante Club, pedln, #1629, deems 2
Perry, Anne, Acceptable Loss, William Monk, #3010, PatH
Peterson, Roger Tory, Field guide to the Eastern Birds, Mockingbird, JoanK #202
Potok, Chaim, The Chosen, Danny Saunders, pedln, #1890, JoanK
Potter, Beatrix, Jemima Puddleduck, rosemarykaye, #1478 pedln, #1482 deems2
Plutarch, ----, Themistocles, roshanarose, #1025, 1027
Preston, Douglas, Dinosaurs in the attic, Frybabe, #1456 rosemarykaye
Rand, Ayn, We the Living, Frybabe, #498, 502
Roth, Philip, The Human Stain, Colman Silk, straudetwo, #3378, Frybabe
Rowling, J. K, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry, PatH, #1409
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre, straudetwo, #1230
Sagan, Carl, Contact, Eleanor Alloway, Frybabe,#2447, PatH
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, The Little Prince, the Prince, PatH, #2146, rosemarykaye
Saramago, Jose, Blindness, deems 2, #1652, straudetwo
Sayers, Dorothy L., The Nine Tailors, Lord Peter Wimsey, PatH, #2466, rosemarykaye
Scott, Paul, The Jewel in the Crown, Daphne Manners, rosemarykaye, #2622, Frybabe
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe, Ginny, #602
Sewall, Anna, Black Beauty, Frybabe, #1490, Gumtree
Shakespeare, William, Othello, Othello, PatH, #2353, Frybabe, #2355, rosemarykaye
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, the monster, PatH, #451
Smith, Alexander McCall, Mma Ramotswe, JudeS, #145
Smith, Alexander McCall, 44Scotland Street, Cyril, rosemarykaye, #1238, 1243
Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle, Cassandra, rosemarykaye, #3347, Frybabe
Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie, Gumtree, #671, 672
Stead, Christina, The Man Who Loved Children, straudetwo, #1690, Gumtree
Steinbeck , John, Journal of a Novel, Gumtree, #53, 60
Stevenson, Robert Louis, The strange case of Dr. Jeckell and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Utterson, rosemarykaye, #2984, Frybabe
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, JudeS, #631, 632
Stone, Irving, Depths of Glory, Camille Pisarro, Gumtree, #802
Strachey, Lytton, Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria, Frybabe, #3302, PatH
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels, Lemuel Gulliver, PatH, #2835, Frybabe
Thompson, Morton, The Cry and the Covenant, Ignaz Semmelweiss, #2332, PatH, #2338, straudetwo
Tolkien, J. R. R., Lord of the Rings, Frodo, PatH, #238, 241
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov, PatH, #1267
Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, Sophie, Mippy, #218
Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror, Frybabe, #2117, straudetwo, #2118, PatH
Twain, Mark, Life on the Mississippi, the author, JoanK, #2192, Frybabe
Tyler, Anne, Digging to America, Maryam Yazdan,Mippy, #735
Urrea, Luis Alberto, The Hummingbird's Daughter, Saint Teresa de Cabora, Frybabe, #1835, straudetwo
Van Allsburg, The Polar Express, Santa, Frybabe, #2570, pedln
Voltaire, Candide, Candide, straudetwo, #1809, Frybabe
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim, PatH, #3293, Frybabe
Vreeland, Susan, The Forest Lover, Emily Carr, Mippy, #364
Weir, Alison, Innocent Traitor, Lady Jane Gray, roshanrose, #883
Wethers, Beck, Left for Dead, Ginny, #29
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence, Frybabe, rosemarykaye, #2054, Gumtree #2055
White, T. H., The Sword in the Stone, Arthur (the Wart), #3069, rosemarykaye.
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell, #2131, rosemarykaye
Windsor, Kathleen, Forever Amber, Amber, Traude, #927, 928
Wodehouse, P. G., Bertie Wooster, PatH, #1046, 1048
Wolfe, Tom, The Right Stuff, Chuck Yeager, roshanarose, #2091 Gumtree, #209x Frybabe
Woolf, Virginia, Flush, Gumtree, #1511, 1513, rosemarykaye
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando, Orlando, PatH, #1141
Xenophon, Frybabe, #173
Zola, Emile, Germinal, Etienne Lentier, Gumtree, #1352


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Straude, that would be wonderful if it's OK with Pat - thanks so much.

Rosemary

PatH

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3441 on: July 07, 2013, 03:17:33 PM »
That's great, Traude.  I'd love it.

straudetwo

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3442 on: July 15, 2013, 07:53:33 PM »
The oppressive heat has obviously done me in, as  you can see. My worsenig vision does not help.
Unfortunately my repeated attempts to modify and, fibally, remove the falty message were unsuccessful. l  I was told the board I was seeking does not exist. I have no choice but letting the errors show. I am terribly sorry.  The second criterion is BOOK
 

straudetwo

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3443 on: July 15, 2013, 08:07:16 PM »
Friends,  please let me explain.
The new quiz  contained embarrassing typos. My bad vision did not help.  I tried to modify and, fiinally in despair, to remove the
post, but I was unsuccessful and was told the board I was seeking does not eist.

Just let me repeat the info, minus the typos.


AUTHOR
Historian and proliic writer, diplomat in his youth, politician, philosopher
Outspoken critic of the Roman  church

BOOK
Nonfiction

SUBJECT MATTER
Treatise of proposed changes.

I am terribly sorry.

JoanK

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3444 on: July 16, 2013, 04:33:50 PM »
It's fine. And interesting. I have no clue.

PatH

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3445 on: July 16, 2013, 05:29:44 PM »
Traude, no one cares if you have typos.  We're just glad to have you here.

Interesting and puzzling.  I'm working on it.

Frybabe

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3446 on: July 16, 2013, 08:11:20 PM »
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince?


PatH

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3447 on: July 16, 2013, 09:47:24 PM »
Oh, wow, Frybabe!  That fits SO well.

straudetwo

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3448 on: July 18, 2013, 12:41:59 AM »
Yes, it is Machiavelli and the book, the book, the most popular of his work, , IL PRINCIPE, Tthe Prince.
Congratulations, Frybabe /b]

A few details about his doctrine tomorrow.

Frybabe

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3449 on: July 20, 2013, 09:47:51 AM »
New quiz


Author:  In the news recently.

Book: First of a series which as inspired a comic book, a new video game, and a movie.

Character: A child genius.


PatH

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3450 on: July 20, 2013, 02:20:12 PM »
Hmm.  Sounds interesting.

JoanK

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3451 on: July 20, 2013, 04:15:31 PM »
Has to be Harry Potter.

Frybabe

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3452 on: July 20, 2013, 05:53:23 PM »
Not Harry Potter.

Frybabe

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3453 on: July 21, 2013, 07:56:09 AM »
Author:  In the news recently
             Has been awarded a Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement

Book: First of a series which as inspired a comic book, a new video game, and a movie
          Originated as a short story

Character: A child genius
                 Made the cut to join a specialized school

PatH

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3454 on: July 21, 2013, 01:18:16 PM »
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin

Frybabe

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3455 on: July 21, 2013, 01:55:30 PM »
WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER

That was fast, PatH. Yes, Ender's Game. I am looking forward to the movie.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/summit/endersgame/

The scuttlebutt is that Orson Scott Card is very anti-gay and therefore is anathema to many these days. The resulting publicity over his attitude may be hitting his bottom line according to some reports I read.


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« Reply #3456 on: July 21, 2013, 02:08:08 PM »
It was the second character clue that gave it away--before then I was thinking along quite different lines.  And the second book clue made me sure I was right, since I remember the short story.

By the way, if you have a very old copy of the book, hang on to it, because in more recent editions Card has changed some things to be more consistent with later books.

straudetwo

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3457 on: July 21, 2013, 03:51:41 PM »
Congratulations, PatH ][/color!!

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #3458 on: July 21, 2013, 05:27:28 PM »
One of the things that I noted in my research was that Card updated the book in 1991 to reflect more current politics and events that would strike a cord with readers. I don't know which version I read, can't find the book, didn't know about the short story.

I didn't read any of the rest. Where they any good? I may have to reread Ender's and get the rest. I never expected the story to continue so long. Wonder what happened to my book  ???

PatH

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« Reply #3459 on: July 21, 2013, 10:04:09 PM »
I read the first two sequels--Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, but not the ones where Card backtracks and looks at different characters out of the first one.  I have issues with Card, keep objecting "yes, but..."  "but..".  Nonetheless, I read the two straight through.  They're worth a try if you liked Ender's Game.  The short story isn't worth tracking down; it's just a short account of Ender's time at the Battle School.  I can't find my copy of the first one either.  It might have been my daughter's.