Featured Question #6: If you could sit down and have a discussion with any author, who would it be, why, and what would you talk to them about?
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Now that I have named the author, aren't all the other questions answered?
RedShirt - I wrote a piece that was once mistaken for Gibran's style. Great, thought provoking stuff.
Someday I will have to repost my dream FRANKENAUTHOR 1.0....
As far as living authors are concerned, I really would like to pick the brains of Stephen King, Nicholas Sparks and John Grisham. I'd want to know their secrets for being prolific.
"I've never written a novel. I've written 10-pages a day."
I've written poetry and prose myself for many years, got a couple of things published, and have just completed a Uni course on Creative Writing and am now embarking on a Humanities course .....at the tender age of nearly 63! I still get excited about how a piece is going to work out because it feels like a surprise to me too.
I'd like to meet Laurie and to hear his gentle, soft Gloucester voice reminding me how he began writing and journied to Spain, working on the land, playing his violin for money, just before the civil war there. He also wrote 'Cider With Rosie', a magnificent book based on his own life.
A great, gentle man.
I was fortunate enough to spend the better part of a day in the company of John Updike. At the time, I was GSM at a local TV station and the BBC had been in touch with me about using our crew to shoot footage of the area and a seated interview with the man himself. I got to ask the questions, he responded. In the final production, it looked like the BBC correspondent was asking the questions... but I knew better. He is quite the character.
Any time: Bill Shakespeare
I am partical to Agatha too. My Shakespeare professer used to make fun of old Agatha, but I thought she was pretty good. My favoroite is Cards on the Table where the "Watson" character turns out to be the bad guy. I love twist endings. My book has a good twist. Can you spot it? Kill Me Sweetly Chapter 2 The hints start early.
Pete - Guess well have to do a FEATURED QUESTION on Peter Joseph Swanson...
Lori - Why you're just a lil' pleaser aren't ya?
There are more
Each conversation would be different, and would not necessarily be about any of their works, but more about the lives behind the scenes. Hemingway, I'd beg to take me out on the open water. That would be wonderful.
Sorry dear, but I found Whitman fascinating. I am proud to say that I have never read a Harry Potthead novel... but have nothing against those who have...
Lori - Guess I'm gonna need the cliff notes on the meanings in that last comment since I came in late...
Tina - A nice conglomerate of authorship. I've picked up and put down Tolkien more times than I care to admit. Heinlein was a high school staple. Ironically, with King, I am more interested in his non-horror works.
I do plan to 'pull a Hemingway' someday. Disappear on the open sea, 45-foot schooner, hopping from island to island, where the sun is warm, the drinks are cold, and I don't know the names of the players.
Okay, I've decided I want to meet Anne Rice. Not to talk about classical music (I love it but am inarticulate about it) but I am fascinated with how she spins mythology. She's really very clever about that. I wonder if I could come up with some smart questions about how she thinks outside the "religion" box.
I will admit that I did not read every word of the LOTR series, but I did finish the entire series. Tolkien's worlds were much like the land of King Arthur for me - a childhood escape route.
And with Rice, it's not about the vampire stories, though I did enjoy them. I much preferred the Beauty series and the Mayfair witch chronicles.
My tastes in reading are as varied as my tastes in music and everything else. I like to sample a little of most everything. There are some exceptions.
and as soon as I win the lottery, I'll be changing my name to Hemingway.... I already have the disappearance spot picked out.
As far as the classical music thing goes, one of my favorites she wrote is "Cry To Heaven". Have you read it? And also, "Violin".
Evanovich is very funny.
Monkey - It must be a party college where the average GPA is < 3.0. (j/k)
Her son was once interviewed and he said that when he was a bad little boy Mom would chain him up in the dungeon. LOL.
Peter, that's bad, very bad - about the drinking and the dungeon. Although, I wouldn't protest if Anne Rice chained me in her dungeon. :)
I'd like to meet Laurel K. Hamilton and ask her about some of her characters. They are such real people to me, I'd like to know more about them. I'd also like to know more about her other series, can't think of the name right now, but it involves fairies in modern times. And they aren't nice.
I think it has something to do with liking to be challenged, and reading Livro is one of the most challenging pieces I have come across. But it isn't challenging in understanding exactly, just.......well, I am amazed that a sinlge man had all this going on in his head. A conversation with him would surely be an exciting thing. I want to see if I can keep up, usually I find that people try to keep up with me- there has only been one man in my life that ever did and he just walked away. Want to see if I can keep up, because I have the feeling I won't and that excites me.
Não tenho ambições nem desejos,
Ser poeta não é a minha ambição,
É apenas a minha maneira de estar só
Sorry, its in the original language, but its kinda like the point I was making with that Twain quote I posted the other day. Pessoa was past wondering, questioning- all that. If one can get past that stuff, what would life be like?
I have this way of seeing things, word and things that people like to think a lot about I can't describe. No real way of explaining it if you don't understand, but I have the feeling he just saw things for what they were too and not for what anyone thought they were.
K, I'm not sure if I am making sense to anyone reading this, but I am just saying....the man was genius.
I've read all the HP books at least once. I enjoyed them thoroughly. I'll probably read the entire series non-stop again in a couple of years. For a class in best sellers I think it's a good choice. I'm assuming part of the theme of the class is the question "What made these books so popular?" I think John Grisham treats his readers with contempt but I'd want to include at least one book of his in that kind of class.