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Mippy

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #440 on: October 07, 2009, 07:03:34 AM »


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#

Akunin, Boris, several books, Erast Fandolin, Frybabe, #447
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
Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, Lorna, Frybabe, #463
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Carroll, Louis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice, JoanK, # 427
Christie, Agatha, Hastings, JoanK, # 145
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
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, PatH, #452
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






Mippy's post:


Good morning!   No idea, but pondering it ...     :D
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Gumtree

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #441 on: October 07, 2009, 10:15:56 AM »
I'm right out of ideas.
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Frybabe

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« Reply #442 on: October 07, 2009, 11:07:05 AM »
More clues.

Author: Previously, I mentioned I use a pen name. The last name is Japanese which loosely means villian. I was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956. Three books of this series have been made into big budget movies in Russia. One of these was expanded and shown on Russian TV.

Character: I had the good fortune to save the life of a Japanese man who, as a result, has become my friend and companion in my adventures. Because of my abilities, I was promoted to Deputy for Special Assignments to the Moscow governor.


Tomereader1

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« Reply #443 on: October 07, 2009, 12:15:11 PM »
Martin Cruz Smith?  The Arkady Renko novels?
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André Maurois

Mippy

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« Reply #444 on: October 07, 2009, 01:00:01 PM »
Renko?  I've read some of that series, but did not know Smith was
a nom d'plume.
I didn't see the previous post, when I began to write.
I think you nailed it, Tomereader.
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Tomereader1

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« Reply #445 on: October 07, 2009, 04:54:32 PM »
I was thinking it was him, i.e. "Gorky Park", but the more I read the clues, it doesn't sound just right.  Don't think I "nailed it".
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.


André Maurois

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« Reply #446 on: October 07, 2009, 08:21:24 PM »
I found the book!

Author, Boris Akunin
Character, Erast Fandorin

As usual, it was in a pile where I should have spotted it straight off.  At least I didn't actually have to clean up my piles (should I be glad or sorry?).  I'm glad he uses a pen name, since his real name turns out to be Chkhartishvili.  the book I have is "The Death of Achilles",

Frybabe

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« Reply #447 on: October 07, 2009, 08:34:31 PM »
HURRAY! We have a winner.

Yes, Boris Akunin. Here is his website.

www.boris-akunin.com/

Here is what Wikipedia says about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin


I've read that one Pat and The White Queen too. I think I would like to read his Sister Pelegia series - a crime solving nun.

mrssherlock

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« Reply #448 on: October 08, 2009, 01:52:52 PM »
My library has one Sister Pelegia in English and two novels in its Russian language collection.
Jackie
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« Reply #449 on: October 08, 2009, 02:07:53 PM »
"The Death of Achilles" has been moved to the top of the pile.

Here's a new quiz:

Author: I have lived a somewhat unconventional life.

Character: All I want is to be loved and accepted.

PatH

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« Reply #450 on: October 10, 2009, 06:54:38 PM »
New clues:

Author: I was egged on to write this book during a conversation with my literary friends.

Character: I was friendly and harmless until my treatment by others turned me to crime.

Frybabe

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« Reply #451 on: October 10, 2009, 07:46:58 PM »
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein

PatH

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« Reply #452 on: October 10, 2009, 08:10:34 PM »
GOT IT, FRYBABE!

The character is, of course, not Frankenstein, but the monster he created, who doesn't have a name.  Have you read the book?  The psychology seems to me to be surprisingly perceptive for the time.  There have been a gazillion books and many movies based on it.  A 1994 movie with Kenneth Branagh, seemed to me to capture the spirit of the book, but it's so viciously bloody as to be almost unwatchable.

Frybabe

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« Reply #453 on: October 10, 2009, 09:07:11 PM »
Keep forgetting that. I don't recall that the monster actually ever had a name. At any rate, it and Dracula have been on one of my TBR piles for several years.

My very favorite Frankenstein was Gene Wilder playing young Dr. Frankenstein, with Peter Boyle playing the monster. Also there were, Madelyn Kahn, Marty Feldman, Terri Garr and Cloris Leachman

JoanK

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« Reply #454 on: October 10, 2009, 09:57:44 PM »
Way to go, FRYBABE!

bluebird24

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« Reply #455 on: November 01, 2009, 02:46:31 PM »
FRYBABE please give the 1st clue

Frybabe

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« Reply #456 on: November 05, 2009, 10:05:43 AM »
Too quiet in here. I got side tracked and kind of forgot about it. Okay, so now I have one.

Author: While my works were very popular when I wrote in the mid to late 1800s. All except one are now out of print and forgotten.

Book: Young man meets and falls in love with the granddaughter of a notorious outlaw family patriarch.


Gumtree

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« Reply #457 on: November 05, 2009, 10:17:28 AM »
H'mmm what's this? Sounds a bit like the Martins and the Coys!
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Frybabe

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« Reply #458 on: November 05, 2009, 12:41:01 PM »
I was going to say that I never heard of the Martins and the Coys until I looked them up. I do remember the song. Here are the lyrics. http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiMARTNCOY.html or you can watch the Disney cartoon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EftOfbOOjNo

JoanK

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« Reply #459 on: November 05, 2009, 05:43:57 PM »
Hmmm. No idea.

PatH

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« Reply #460 on: November 05, 2009, 07:38:55 PM »
Somehow I feel I know that book, but I'm sure not coming up with it.  I hope you all read to the end of the Martins and the Coys, to find out what happened to the feud.

Frybabe

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« Reply #461 on: November 06, 2009, 12:32:52 PM »
Author: Having excelled in classical studies I won a scholarship at Oxford. After receiving my degree, I studied and passed the bar to become a lawyer. Ill health, however, derailed my career after several years. I took a post as Classics Master at a grammar school in the London area shortly after I married.


Book: The heroine was kidnapped by the outlaw clan as a child and was to be married against her will to the heir to the clan once the patriarch died. The hero of the story is the son of a farmer murdered by the clan.


PatH you know the book, I know you do. Everybody, but everybody has heard of it if not read it.

PatH

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« Reply #462 on: November 06, 2009, 02:56:11 PM »
YES, FRYBABE!  Indeed, I know it.  "Lorna Doone", by Richard Blackmore.  I had to look up the author's first name, though.  It must be almost 60 years since I read it, but for some reason I had occasion to look up the plot a few months ago (I think I used it in Title Mania and wanted to be reminded of it) so it's still fresh in my mind.

Of course now I have to come up with something.  Sigh.

Frybabe

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« Reply #463 on: November 06, 2009, 04:27:41 PM »
Tag, you're IT Pat.

Yes, I have been thinking of the book for a while and just dug it out of my pile this morning. I am thinking of rereading it. I was surprised to find that there have been seven movies and four TV programs (two of which are miniseries) of Lorna Doone. I don't remember seeing any of them.

JoanK

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« Reply #464 on: November 06, 2009, 09:04:05 PM »
PatH has such a good memory. We must have read Lorna Doone about the same time, but I didn't remember anything.

Gumtree

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« Reply #465 on: November 06, 2009, 09:12:39 PM »
Yes, Lorna Doone - It came to me while I slept - glad to see that PatH beat me to it  :D

One of my claims to fame as a child was that in class I was the only one who knew who John Ridd was. - obviously all that meant was that maybe I was the only one who had read Lorna D at that time. I loved that story.
 I remember one film with Richard Greene - thought he was wonderful - Ah youth !
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Frybabe

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« Reply #466 on: November 06, 2009, 11:00:58 PM »
Gum  ;D

Gumtree

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« Reply #467 on: November 07, 2009, 10:18:54 AM »
It occurred to me this afternoon that I don't know a single thing about Lorna Doone's creator, R.D. Blackmore so I checked him out a little. Strangely too, I doubt I have ever read anything else he wrote. The articles indicate that, apart from that one novel, his work is now out of print. Sad isn't it.  I daresay the reference libraries will have copies though I guess I'd be disappointed to read him now...we never can recapture...can we.
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Frybabe

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« Reply #468 on: November 07, 2009, 01:41:37 PM »
I am curious about what the plots his other novels were about. He did spend a lot of time growing a market garden and fruit trees in his later years so that explains Farm and Fruit of Old. There is at least one poetry book listed in Wikipedia and one, The Bugle of the Black Sea, that sounds like a sea adventure. Several of his works, including Lorna Doone are on Project Gutenberg.

Gumtree

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« Reply #469 on: November 08, 2009, 02:49:25 AM »
Frybabe: Thanks for mentioning Blackmore's work on Gutenberg. I might just take a look ...one day. Yes, his fruit growing was a surprise - seems to have had a varied life - love the bit about him growing fruit in the summer and writing books in the winter. I wonder which he preferred and would he have done any of the actual physical work associated with the fruit trees or did he just instruct his labour force in the niceties of pruning etc.
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

PatH

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« Reply #470 on: November 08, 2009, 09:59:38 PM »
Sorry I've been a bit distracted, but here's one.

Author: my early seafaring experiences helped my writing.

Character: I'm a loner, but I get my way in the end.

Gumtree

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« Reply #471 on: November 10, 2009, 12:15:53 PM »
H'mm several novelists were seafaring men in their early days - Conrad of course, Marryat, William Golding etc

I think we need another clue or two or three.
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JoanK

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« Reply #472 on: November 10, 2009, 02:36:06 PM »
Or four or five or more.

PatH

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« Reply #473 on: November 10, 2009, 04:14:19 PM »
Author: some of my other books are based on my travels.

Character: one of the other characters is looking for me, bent on revenge.

JoanK

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« Reply #474 on: November 10, 2009, 09:26:24 PM »
Jean Valjean in Les Miserables?

PatH

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« Reply #475 on: November 10, 2009, 09:57:19 PM »
Nope.  That's ingenious, though.  Does les Miz touch on seafaring?

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« Reply #476 on: November 11, 2009, 12:40:42 AM »
Not that I remember, but he probably took to the sea somewhere.


Frybabe

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« Reply #477 on: November 11, 2009, 10:22:58 AM »
For some reason, I was thinking of Hemmingway. I thought he had some seafaring experience, but I don't see anything in his bio. He did travel a lot though, during his years as a journalist.

PatH

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« Reply #478 on: November 11, 2009, 04:21:23 PM »
Not Hemingway, in spite of "The Old Man and the Sea"

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« Reply #479 on: November 11, 2009, 08:23:35 PM »
Not Conrad, PatH tells me.