Author Topic: Author! Author! (Read 360585 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2880 on:** April 12, 2012, 05:23:48 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
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Burns, Olive, Cold Sassy Tree, pedln, #1594, rosemarykaye
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
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
Dumas, Alexandre pere, The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, PatH, #939, 941
DuMaurier, Daphne, Rebecca, the nameless narrator, Gumtree, straudetwo and rosemarykaye, #1924
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
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
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
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
Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables, JoanK, # 1904, Gumtree
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, JudeS, #631, 632
Stone, Irving, Depths of Glory, Camille Pisarro, Gumtree, #802
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
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
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

Only the latest heading is up to date.

Wow! Super catch there Roshanarose. Smashing!

roshanarose · « **Reply #2881 on:** April 12, 2012, 11:33:28 PM »

Thank You. I am a wee bit busy just now but hope to have my quiz up in a couple of days.

pedln · « **Reply #2882 on:** April 13, 2012, 11:28:28 AM »

Well done, Roshanarose, and an excellent puzzle, Rosemary.

JudeS · « **Reply #2883 on:** April 15, 2012, 01:58:51 PM »

I have returned after a too busy ten days.
Dr Doolittle was also my favorite as a young child. My first grade teacher would read us a chapter of these books every Friday afternoon. When I could get a library card (You had to be a second grader to get the card) I began reading the series and read all of them. Push-me-pull-yu was my first inkling that language could be fun and be made fun of.

Hugh Lofting probably never knew how much he influenced our generation of readers.
Thanks for the memories, Roshanarose.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2884 on:** April 15, 2012, 11:59:06 PM »

With Dr Dolittle the animal hints were the clues I needed. Thank you all for your congratulations.

OK - My turn:

Author: 20th century British writer.

Book: His debut novel.

Characters: I deliberately put "characters" because the book's plot is driven by only two characters.

________________________________________________________________________
Re British Writers. I was just looking to find out the percentage of British writers who have been the subject of our quizzes, but I couldn't find the list. I know that I generally choose British writers, the reason for this is that I grew up in a culture and a time where British writers were the preference of Australian bookreaders. It may have had something to do with Empire, I am not sure. Also at school we studied British writers and then at University I studied English literature. By that time American Literature was part of the University curriculum bu only in third year, and by that time I was heavily into Linguistics.

So the upshot of this is: Don't groan and say Not another British writer!!! Try to understand that probably what we read in our most impressionable years will (or may) govern our literary choices from then on. Don't give up before you start the quiz.

What I really love about this game is that I have the opportunity to learn about literature and authors on a global scale. After all, that is what it is all about.

PatH · « **Reply #2885 on:** April 16, 2012, 06:10:19 AM »

My fault, roshanarose, I have been bad about keeping the list up to date. At the moment, you have to go back 2 pages to see it. I'll fix that. As of 2 pages ago, there were 131 authors guessed, and 41 of them are from the British Isles (England, Scotland, and Ireland, but mostly England). I didn't look up a couple whose origin I didn't know, and didn't count people like J. R. R. Tolkien (born in South Africa, but lived in England most of his life).

I never groan about the origin of the writer, only groan because I don't know who it is.

PatH · « **Reply #2886 on:** April 16, 2012, 07:20:29 AM »

It's up to date now. The tally is 136/46.

JoanK · « **Reply #2887 on:** April 16, 2012, 02:02:35 PM »

For a long time, and perhaps even still, British literature was the gold standard for literature even here in the States. If you were educated, you knew British literature. So the number of Brits is not surprising.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2888 on:** April 16, 2012, 11:38:28 PM »

I apologise if I seemed grumpy. Although I haven't told anyone else on SL, I instinctively know that I can trust people in "Author, Author" so I will reveal that I have Clinical Depression and have had for years. I won't go into what has happened that helped to bring about the illness, as I kinow that many, if not most, of you have had your own suffering to deal with. Having a daughter who is a Clinical Psychologist helps, but she is very vigilant and I can't put anything over her. She is my darling girl, so all is well.

So what I am trying to say is that although I love getting the quizzes right and go to great lengths to do so, I am not so keen on composing a quiz. I strikes me that I am not Robinson Crusoe in this.

As my father always used to say: "Stop grumbling. Get on with it. There are millions who are worse off than you". Isn't that the way most fathers are? So here is more info on my quiz.

Author: 20th century British writer.
A bit of a grumbler as well.
He was brought up in a very oppressive and conformist suburban family home

Book: His debut novel..
Spent four years at Oxford where he was an admirer of Camus and Sartre, whose writings corresponded with his own ideas about conformity and the will of the individual. These themes are reflected to a large extent in this book.

Characters: I deliberately put "characters" because the book's plot is driven by only two characters.
The two individuals are about as different as they can be.

_

Frybabe · « **Reply #2889 on:** April 17, 2012, 12:17:27 AM »

It's a bit late, so my brain isn't up to thinking too hard right now. Nothing comes to mind yet.

Bless you, Roshanarose. Hugs from someone who has been in that morass.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2890 on:** April 17, 2012, 01:56:57 AM »

Roshanarose, thanks for sharing that with us, it's so nice to know that you feel able trust us, and of course we are all very trustworthy - I myself feel like the people on SeniorLearn are all good friends. And just so that you know you are not alone, I don't like writing the quizzes either - if I guess one, part of me thinks 'great' and the other part thinks 'oh no'!

Haven't a clue so far. Sounds interesting though.

PatH · « **Reply #2891 on:** April 17, 2012, 09:54:40 AM »

Roshanarose, you must have been feeling grumpier than you sounded--you didn't seem grumpy to me. Hang in there--you can always grump at us whenever you want.

I hate thinking of quizzes too. Yours is a good one, but so far I'm not coming up with anything.

JoanK · « **Reply #2892 on:** April 17, 2012, 03:45:27 PM »

{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}

We've all been there, and we're all with you.

The book sounds fascinating. If it turns out I haven't read it, I'd like to.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2893 on:** April 18, 2012, 12:41:59 AM »

Thanks for your understanding. I feel like I am a Musketeer - All for One and One for All (or something like that).

Rosemary I am impressed by how far you have come with your "formatting". Every time I write something bold or italics I invariably forget to turn it off.

I am feeling all warm and squishy now. Thanks for the hugs Frybabe and Joan. PatH I will try not to be too grumpy. Actually you nearly lost me last night. There was a knock on the door and when I asked who it was, the reply was "Police"! I honestly felt my heart start beating too fact and my stomach had a huge knot in it. The two police offices were there to follow up a case of a suspect burglary at my house. The police are a bit on the tardy side. The incident happened in November. It was cleared up and I went back inside and had a stiff drink. Phew!

Author: 20th century British writer.
A bit of a grumbler as well.
He was brought up in a very oppressive and conformist suburban family home.
He received a degree in French and considered becoming a writer.

Book: His debut novel..
Spent four years at Oxford where he was an admirer of Camus and Sartre, whose writings corresponded with his own ideas about conformity and the will of the individual. These themes are reflected to a large extent in this book.
The first draft of the book was completed in 1960 and was published in Spring, 1963 immediately becoming a best-seller.

Characters: I deliberately put "characters" because the book's plot is driven by only two characters.
The two individuals are about as different as they can be.
The two individuals are a man and a woman from two very different backgrounds.
Even their names reflect this difference.

_

Frybabe · « **Reply #2894 on:** April 18, 2012, 08:50:28 AM »

Still drawing a blank.

pedln · « **Reply #2895 on:** April 18, 2012, 10:17:07 AM »

Roshanarose, we're so glad you're here with us. Bless you.

Your clues are great. For someone who doesn't like making quizzes you are doing stupendously. I wish I could stick around longer today to "attack

" them.

Right now, the only thing I can come up with is that he/she is younger than Camus and Sartre?

roshanarose · « **Reply #2896 on:** April 18, 2012, 11:27:40 PM »

pedln et al - such sweet kind words. Thank You.

Not a lot of movement at the station here on SL. I will try to make the clues less obscure. As a matter of fact I will make them downright crystal clear

pedln - the author is a "He".

Author: 20th century British writer.
A bit of a grumbler as well.
He was brought up in a very oppressive and conformist suburban family home.
He received a degree in French and considered becoming a writer.
After the author wrote this book he wrote several others and a couple of translations from the French and some poetry.
He had spent happy times in Spetsai, an island of Greece. It was there that he began to feel more confident and less repressed about his writing.
Indeed, one of his most famous books was set in Greece.
Another of his books was made into a film, as was the one I am quizzing you on. The other book/film had Meryl Streep as the female lead.

Book: His debut novel..
Spent four years at Oxford where he was an admirer of Camus and Sartre, whose writings corresponded with his own ideas about conformity and the will of the individual. These themes are reflected to a large extent in this book.
The first draft of the book was completed in 1960 and was published in Spring, 1963 immediately becoming a best-seller.
The author's technique is quite unusual in this book, at least it was then. The book is divided into two distinct parts, ie first from the man's point of view and second from the woman's, which is written in diary form. The man gets to have the last say due to a tragedy.

Characters: I deliberately put "characters" because the book's plot is driven by only two characters.
The two individuals are about as different as they can be.
The two individuals are a man and a woman from two very different backgrounds.
Even their names reflect this difference.
The man becomes obsessed with the woman and kidnaps her. The title of the book could be seen as a synonym of "the kidnapper".
The man's name is Frederick. The woman calls him Caliban as in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as she sees him as somehow subhuman. She is Miranda.

_______________________________________________________________________

I figure if you don't know it by now then you probably haven't read the book. That's fine. I have answered quizzes correctly about books I have never read just from deduction and a process of elimination by research. I enjoy that approach, but I know that perhaps not everyone does. Give it a go anyway

Frybabe · « **Reply #2897 on:** April 18, 2012, 11:56:22 PM »

Never read it, whatever it is. The bit about the author spending time on a Greek island sounds familiar, but then I expect he wasn't the only one. Sorry, I don't know this one.

JoanK · « **Reply #2898 on:** April 18, 2012, 11:56:59 PM »

I'm sure I never read it (hope I don't have to eat those words).

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2899 on:** April 19, 2012, 04:16:02 PM »

Is the one that Meryl Streep starred in The French Lieutenant's Woman? By John Fowles?

I'm afraid I don't know anything about his other books. Are we allowed to look it up?

Rosemary

straudetwo · « **Reply #2900 on:** April 19, 2012, 05:44:42 PM »

Roshanarose,
Fabulously formulated clues that give a fine outline of an author and a man; but nothing clicks for me, yet.
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I'm still puzzling about the author's ultra-conservative upbringing and its effect on him. Was he repressed by it until he found a modicum of happiness in Greece, or did he openly defy conventions ?
It's too soon to give up; I'd like to delve into things a bit longer.

JoanK · « **Reply #2901 on:** April 19, 2012, 06:27:51 PM »

I'm wondering if the Streep film is "Mamma Mia" which takes place on a Greek Island? The opera is by Abba, but I have no idea who wrote the story it was taken from.

JoanK · « **Reply #2902 on:** April 19, 2012, 06:34:17 PM »

Googling it, I can't find that the "book" of the musical was based on a real book. So maybe not.

JudeS · « **Reply #2903 on:** April 19, 2012, 06:59:53 PM »

Is it The Collector by John Fowles? That book is about two people -one THe Collector whose name escapes me and the next part by Miranda.
The man is a lonely butterfly collector.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2904 on:** April 19, 2012, 09:21:35 PM »

JUDE - CONGRATULATIONS

You would have been allowed, Rosemary, and you did get half of the question. Well Done!

straudetwo - I am not too sure if Fowles "openly defied convention" or not. From my notes he was a very clever guy who grew up in a very ordinary household. That is not meant to be an insult. He did become very well qualified as an academic and teacher. He did something out of the ordinary by going to Greece to teach as most of his peers were only interested in teaching at the prestige Universities in Britain. However, the island is Spetsai and is supposed to be rather gorgeous. I have heard from a very good source that Ralph Fiennes goes there for his holidays, so it couldn't be too shabby. To a certain extent Greece did liberate or maybe even inspire him enough to discover his writing talent as I have mentioned in my clues. Another of his books (and films) was "The Magus" which was set on a Greek island.

I saw the movie "The Collector" first and because at the time I was besotted with anything with Terence Stamp in it (he was Freddie), I read the book. The book was unlike anything I had read before. Neither horror or thriller it set the trend for many films and books that followed with its quiet air of menace.

The character of the woman in the book and film is actually Miranda Grey (played by Samantha Eggar) and Terence Stamp as Frederick (Freddie) Clegg. I realised that our Rosemary has a son called Freddie. I wasn't casting aspersions on your son, Rosemary.

Terence Stamp was in great demand in the sixties and was an ikon for "The Swinging Sixties". Among the beautiful women he escorted (euphemism) were Brigitte Bardot, Julie Christie and the beautiful model Jean Shrimpton. Stamp also starred in such movies as "Billy Budd", "Blue", "Far from the Madding Crowd" with Julie Christie, and more recently as the man/woman in "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" which I can recommend highly.

If you can get a hold of "The Collector" either book or film, take a look. I hope you enjoyed the quiz. But even I saw that perhaps it was a bit cryptic. Well done all those "who had a go".

roshanarose · « **Reply #2905 on:** April 19, 2012, 09:36:13 PM »

For the record: I have never seen "Mama Mia" as I really dislike Abba.

Frybabe - I think that there were several writers who were inspired by Greece. Lawrence and Gerald Durrell both lived on Corfu. Leonard Cohen and some fellow ex-pats lived on the lovely island of Hydra. Charmain Clift and her husband also lived on Hydra full-time.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2906 on:** April 20, 2012, 03:07:08 AM »

Well done Jude!!

Roshanarose - don't worry, I don't think all Freddies are mine! As I may have mentioned earlier, we recently found a lost daschund who turned out to be named Freddie

Actually he was probably better behaved than mine. Would have loved to have kept him, but also v happy that his owners turned up - they were lovely.

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie - both names that evoke an era, don't you think? Far from the Madding Crowd was the first film I ever went to under the certificate age. My friend and I were probably 6 months off being 14, or whatever you needed to be i those days (the classifications were different then), and we felt so guilty you would have thought we were smuggling cocaine

I loved Mama Mia, but I know lots of people didn't. Anna said 'it's all about middle aged women'

and son apparently went to sleep in it....

Rosemary

JudeS · « **Reply #2907 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:06:48 PM »

Rosemary
I too loved Mama Mia. Both the play and more recently the film with Meryl Streep.

Give me a day or two to organize this quiz. basically to decide on a writer that is not on the list of "the Chosen" up till now.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2908 on:** April 20, 2012, 01:14:00 PM »

Hurray, Jude!

Not only did I not read this book, I have never read and of John Fowles books, nor have I seen movie.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2909 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:41:36 PM »

Congratulations, Jude !

John Fowles DID come to my mind, particularly of his connection with Greece - but I knew nothing of his childhood or his admiratio for Camus and Sartre. I read The Collector, I saw the movie, twice. I became a fan of Fowles and own several of his books.

His most extraordinary work, for me, is The Magus, published in 1966 and republished in 1977, totally revised. A feast for the mind and the senses.

JudeS · « **Reply #2910 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:30:31 AM »

Good morning folks. It has been a long, long time since I put up a quiz. I'll try my best.

Author:A Twentieth Century Writer. Famous world wide.

Book:Takes place in the past.

Character:Everyone of you is familiar with this character .

Good Luck!

PatH · « **Reply #2911 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:45:57 AM »

We'll need a lot of luck, or maybe a crystal ball. Those clues could fit a horde of books.

(That's not a complaint; that's how it's supposed to start off.)

straudetwo · « **Reply #2912 on:** April 21, 2012, 02:51:51 PM »

A crystal ball indeed , PatH!!

It will take more clues to narrow down the vast field of (living?)authors who fit the preliminary premise.

Jude did give us a hint, merely a hint, mind you, and not a promise : namely that she'd choose an author who, so far, has not been one of our "chosen"in this circle.

We ae prepared to start the game.

pedln · « **Reply #2913 on:** April 21, 2012, 02:55:40 PM »

Well, we have to start somewhere. 20th Century -- that narrows it down a bit. World-wide

F Scott Fitzgerald? The Great Gatsby?

JoanK · « **Reply #2914 on:** April 21, 2012, 03:01:42 PM »

"The Magus is only $1.99 on Kindle, so I ordered it. "A feast for the mind and senses" sounds pretty good!

roshanarose · « **Reply #2915 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:38:40 PM »

JoanK - Good on You. Why not read "The Collector" as well?

JudeS · « **Reply #2916 on:** April 22, 2012, 12:10:29 AM »

Not F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Look further afield.

Yes indeed . Not one of the chosen on the list.Wondered why this author wasn't.

More clues tomorrow.

JudeS · « **Reply #2917 on:** April 22, 2012, 11:41:36 AM »

Good morning.

Author:A 20th century writer.
The Author's older brother and three of the authors six children were writers.

Book:Takes place in the past.
Divided into four main sections.

Character:Everyone of you is familiar with this character.
Comes from a very, very large family.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2918 on:** April 22, 2012, 12:30:30 PM »

The Waltons?

JudeS · « **Reply #2919 on:** April 22, 2012, 02:15:51 PM »

Not the Waltons.

I also noticed that when I put up my second set of clues I forgot part of the Author clue: Famous world wide.

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