Author Topic: Author! Author! (Read 360489 times)

PatH · « **Reply #400 on:** September 03, 2009, 01:13:10 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 queses 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#

Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin, Gumtree, #277
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett, #158
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, JoanK, #342
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Carroll, Louis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice, JoanK, # 639
Christie, Agatha, Hastings, JoanK, # 127
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, Rachel Verinder, PatH, #311
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, Gumtree, #226
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson, PatH, #380
Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda, Gumtree, #190
Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Bustopher Jones, PatH, #110
George, Elizabeth, Lynley and Havers, Tomereader1, #168
Grey, Zane, Riders of the Purple Sage, Frybabe, #294, 299
James, Henry, Wings of a Dove, Kidsal, #83
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Frybabe, #413
O’Brian, Patrick, Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey, JudeS, #319
Orwell, George, Frybabe, #97
Peterson, Roger Tory, Field guide to the Eastern Birds, Mockingbird, JoanK #202
Smith, Alexander McCall, Mma Ramotswe, JudeS, #145
Steinbeck , John, Journal of a Novel, Gumtree, #53, 60
Tolkien, J. R. R., Lord of the Rings, Frodo, PatH, #238, 241
Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, Sophie, Mippy, #218
Vreeland, Susan, The Forest Lover, Emily Carr, Mippy, #364
Wethers, Beck, Left for Dead, Ginny, #29
Xenophon, Frybabe, #173

Frybabe · « **Reply #401 on:** September 03, 2009, 09:49:17 PM »

PatH, I remember seeing somewhere a while back someone mentioned that it was easier to learn Latin if you have already had Spanish. Not Italian, not French, Spanish. hmmmmmm!

Mippy · « **Reply #402 on:** September 04, 2009, 06:59:40 AM »

What makes it easier to learn Latin? I think liking to solve puzzles is the best indicator!
I had French in high school, German in college, and no Latin at all before Ginny's class five (?) years ago. I love Latin ... it keeps my brain running on "go" and I love learning the Roman history. I'd strongly encourage everyone (not Frybabe/Marg ... you are too advanced) to join Ginny's new class next year!

... hey ... to Gumtree ... who is in 101. Hurray!

Gumtree · « **Reply #403 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:38:57 AM »

Keeping my brain running on 'go' was one of the reasons I decided to try the Latin. - I've been thinking about doing it for three years and already - after less than one week - wish I'd joined earlier.

PatH · « **Reply #404 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:50:05 AM »

To me, the appeal of Latin would be the logic. I know several people, including one physician, who say that learning Latin is what taught them to think logically. And I do like puzzles of many kinds. But I do need to keep up the Spanish. Sigh.

JoanK · « **Reply #405 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:06:14 PM »

I'm really sorry I had to drop out of latin when my husband died so unexpectedly. It was too much for me at the time, but I had really enjoyed the classes.

Mippy · « **Reply #406 on:** September 06, 2009, 06:55:54 AM »

Dearest Joan, amica mea ~ I hope it was not wrong to say "everyone" should join Latin when I remember so well why you left the class. My heart goes out to you once more!

Gumtree · « **Reply #407 on:** September 06, 2009, 12:07:10 PM »

JoanK - I didn't know your loss was comparatively recent or that it had occurred unexpectedly. My thoughts are with you. {{{Joan}}}}

JoanK · « **Reply #408 on:** September 06, 2009, 12:24:59 PM »

No, it's been several years now, but I still keep all the hugs you guys sent me.

Less so the Latin, which I've forgotten by now. Mippy, you must be reading all the classics by now!

PatH · « **Reply #409 on:** September 07, 2009, 07:07:41 PM »

I have now stuck an alphabetized list of already used authors on the bottom of the heading. We've done 24 so far! I added the challenger's name and post # where the solution was revealed because it was easy to do when I had to go through all the posts anyway. It'll be dead easy to keep updating it. comments for improvement will be welcomed.

I notice I've posed the last 2 challenges (hint, hint).

Frybabe · « **Reply #410 on:** September 28, 2009, 02:48:54 PM »

WAAAAAAY to quiet here.

Author: I wrote poetry, political, philosophical and religious works. My first poem was published in 1632.

Book: A well known epic which includes love, war and heroism.

JoanK · « **Reply #411 on:** September 28, 2009, 02:50:12 PM »

Milton?

Frybabe · « **Reply #412 on:** September 28, 2009, 02:54:28 PM »

Well, this is a record. Yes, Milton.

I was having trouble trying to decide whether to include a date or not.

Something I learned about Milton was that he knew at least seven languages, was married three times, went blind (and in fact was blind when he "wrote" his epic).

Want to post his magnum opus, JoanK?

JoanK · « **Reply #413 on:** September 28, 2009, 03:14:31 PM »

Paradise Lost.

I've read it: it's heavy and hard for a modern person to read. He also wrote Paradise Regained (I think that's the title). I've heard it's not as good so didn't attempt it. Dante had the same problem: his description of heaven isn't nearly as good, I'm told, as his description of hell. It says omething that we are better able to imagine loss and hell than heaven.

JoanK · « **Reply #414 on:** September 28, 2009, 03:17:38 PM »

Now I've got to come up with something! But it's time for my daily crossword. Every day, my crossword puzzle buddy calls at 12:30 and we work the NYTimes crossword puzzle together. Maybe it will give me an idea--it's full of literary references. I'll be back later.

JoanK · « **Reply #415 on:** September 28, 2009, 06:05:17 PM »

OK: here I go.

Author: I made my living in another field, and only published my well-known work later.

The character: I got in trouble by drinking things I shouldn't.

Frybabe · « **Reply #416 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:08:04 PM »

Off hand the only thing I can think of is Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

JoanK · « **Reply #417 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:24:34 PM »

Good guess, but no.

Anyone else?

Gumtree · « **Reply #418 on:** September 29, 2009, 12:54:08 PM »

Good to see some action here - great get on the Milton

Can't think of anything to fit the current clues...

PatH · « **Reply #419 on:** September 29, 2009, 12:59:46 PM »

I can't play in this one, because JoanK ran it by me. I don't think I would have gotten it from the first clues, though.

JoanK · « **Reply #420 on:** September 29, 2009, 09:19:20 PM »

Anyone else out there? New clues tomorrow.

PatH · « **Reply #421 on:** September 29, 2009, 09:30:31 PM »

I'll give a mini-clue: I bet you've all read it.

Mippy · « **Reply #422 on:** September 30, 2009, 10:39:40 AM »

Hi, everyone! I won't be on line for a few days, as we're doing our
semi-annual snowbird migration. Tomorrow we leave Cape Cod, head
for Reston, VA to visit granddaughter and her parents

then arrive in FL late Sunday.

See y'all next week!

JoanK · « **Reply #423 on:** September 30, 2009, 07:49:02 PM »

PK, Snowbird. Have a great trip!

Author: I started out to be a minister, but felt I shouldn't be ordained. Scholars now wonder why.

Character: I'm probably based on a real person, who may have had the same name.

Gumtree · « **Reply #424 on:** October 01, 2009, 05:48:15 AM »

Haven't got a clue - but somehow Tom Keneally and Schindler's Ark/List came to mind. Tom studied for the church but I think he was actually ordained. Schindler got into trouble but don't know whether it was from drinking things he ought not. I know it's not right.

JoanK · « **Reply #425 on:** October 01, 2009, 01:59:05 PM »

No, it's not.

Frybabe · « **Reply #426 on:** October 04, 2009, 09:01:48 PM »

Brain hasn't been functioning for puzzles lately, but I just had another thought.

How about Louis Carroll and his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

JoanK · « **Reply #427 on:** October 04, 2009, 09:31:31 PM »

FRYBABE!!! YOU'RE BRILLIANT.

I was just saying these clues are too hard, and going in to talk about tea parties. Now I don't have to.

OK, what's left?

Frybabe · « **Reply #428 on:** October 05, 2009, 05:07:42 PM »

Another round:

Author: I write primarily crime novels. In my country I am one of the most widely read authors, and am an acknowledged master of crime fiction.

Character: I am a master spy, fluent in five languages, lucky at gambling.

JoanK · « **Reply #429 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:20:09 PM »

Mmmmmmm1

PatH · « **Reply #430 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:26:41 PM »

I'm thinking.

Frybabe · « **Reply #431 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:31:33 PM »

I'm thinking this may be a hard one. I am not sure just how well read this author outside of his native country, but my sister ran across his novels and gave my several as a birthday present last year. They are very good.

PatH · « **Reply #432 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:59:42 PM »

It's good to start hard. If we get hopelessly stuck, you can give us bigger and bigger clues.

Gumtree · « **Reply #433 on:** October 06, 2009, 04:00:49 AM »

Good one Frybabe - I'd forgotten that Lewis Carroll studied for the ministry as well as being a mathematician et al.

so... a master of crime fiction? - pity - I don't read much crime fiction.

Gumtree · « **Reply #434 on:** October 06, 2009, 04:06:17 AM »

Why is Reilly Ace of Spies running through my mind ? There was an original book based on the real Reilly written by someone whose name escapes me which Fleming used as a starting point for the James Bond stuff.

Frybabe · « **Reply #435 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:15:33 PM »

Sorry, Gumtree. Reilly he is not.

next clues:

Author: I have been an essayist, critic, philologist and translator, with special interest in Japanese. My first detective stories were so well received that in 2000 I was able to leave my job as an assistant editor-in-chief of a magazine to writing novels full time. The name you know me by is a pen name.

Character: I work for the criminal division of the Moscow police in the latter part of the 19th century. Previously, I held the post of second secretary at the Russian Embassy in Japan.

JoanK · « **Reply #436 on:** October 06, 2009, 04:59:13 PM »

I don't think I know the book, but I'd like to. I'm going too ask in mystery corner, if you don't mind.

PatH · « **Reply #437 on:** October 06, 2009, 05:08:01 PM »

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!! I'm sure I have one of the author's books in one of my TBR pile, and I CAN'T FIND IT. And I don't remember his name.

If it turns out you are responsible for actually getting me to clean up some of those piles, Frybabe, you will have done a great good deed.

mrssherlock · « **Reply #438 on:** October 06, 2009, 06:26:07 PM »

Doesn't ring any berlls for me but I'll be reading the books when we know who.

Frybabe · « **Reply #439 on:** October 06, 2009, 11:08:48 PM »

PatH

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