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If you could summon any author from the dead , which author would it be ??? plz comment .............
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I've got loads: Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, The Bronte sisters, J.R.R Tolkien, (do poets count?) If poets count, then: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Coleridge, Geoffrey Chaucer, Milton, Robert Burns, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Christina Perri, Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth, Dante, Robert Browning and Thomas Parr. And maybe a lot more.
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Jane Austen would definitely be my first choice.
Horton Foote. Because he was kind. And because he never wrote a bad film or play.Shelley
http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com
Stieg Larsson!! There are some wrongs for him to right!
J. R. R. Tolkien so he could finish all his works and write more.
Robert Heinlein to talk about Stranger in a Strange Land or Time Enough For Love. His views on religion, sex, life and death, and humanity in general are fascinating.
Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey-we three could take a walk in the woods together. Thoreau would bring his high-mindedness and original thoughts, and Abbey for his great sense of humor. They would both also bring their appreciation for the outdoors. (I did have the pleasure of meeting Abbey once, but not too much time for talk.)
Male - Henry Miller or Oscar WildeFemale - Anais Nin
But what a tough decision that would be!
Martin wrote: "Charles Bukowski."I read an interview with Charles Bukowski years ago. The interviewer said "Your life doesn't seem conducive to domestic happiness, but you're married." "Yes," says Bukowski, "I get up every morning, and I tell her 'If you don't start nothing, there won't be nothing.'"
It may seem odd, but I'd love to talk to Nelson Mandela. He wrote some amazing essays and letters from prison. How did he become what he was? I find him fascinating. I'd also be interested in speaking to Ayn Rand and Jules Verne.
My favorite all-time author John Steinbeck!
Um, how about creepy! Can you imagine what kind of very scary, very disturbing stuff they would write after being dead! Especially Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, etc. Once again, CREEPY!!!
Walt Whitman - since everyone is always interpreting his writing to mean he was gay - let's ask him.Also Mark Twain. I love his sense of humor and how he liked to get people all spun up over nothing.
Alastair MacLean. I don't want to ask him anything, just sit at his feet and listen adoringly.
Good point, gertt.I would love to meet Jane Austen. To be able to talk with her about anything, especially books (and her books!), would be amazing. :)
i would choose jean auston :)
J.R.R. Tolkien of Jane Austin of maybe C.S. Lewis or Shakespeare
Shakespeare, to answer the question once and for all what he looked like and who actually wrote all his plays.
Stephanie wrote: "Shakespeare, to answer the question once and for all what he looked like and who actually wrote all his plays."Haha, good plan. :)
Ohh hard one! If I had to narrow it down to two people... J.R.R Tolkien and Tomas Mann! One has an extraordinary tact when it comes to buildings worlds and the others as the most fascinating characters in literature!
I'd resurrect either Charles Dickens or Jane Austen. Both extraordinary geniuses.
And I would leave James Joyce dead and buried. For ever. And ever.
And I would leave James Joyce dead and buried. For ever. And ever.
Hunter S. Thompson, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace and Lord Byron.
Roald Dahl. I remember finding out that he was dead as a child and being really devastated (first time it ever occurred to me that authors could be dead too).
Rachel wrote: "I'd resurrect either Charles Dickens or Jane Austen. Both extraordinary geniuses.And I would leave James Joyce dead and buried. For ever. And ever."
We might as well leave Joyce's books buried along with him, as they never did make any sense (and the same with William Faulkner and his works).
While all of us would like to revisit some of the classical writers, a couple of modern ones come to my mind, including Michael Dibdin--whose elegant writing and finely crafted novels were way too few for my taste. Although I enjoyed his stand alone novels, I would seriously enjoy a few more glimpses of Aurelio Zen!
...I guess that for me it would have to be Jorge Luis Borges. For my taste in fiction, there's Borges and then there's everybody else. "LABYRINTHS" is my favorite book of all time, nothing else even comes close; and six of my one hundred or so all-time favorites were authored by Borges. If I could make a second choice, it would be Angela Carter, whose fiction and essays consistenly knocked me out of my easy chair. A more accomplished erotic author is unimaginable.
Hmmm... It would be either HP Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, or even Sylvia Plath. They would be interesting to meet with and pick their brains. They came from such different points in time and they were such brilliant, imaginative writers.
It would to fascinating to see Asimov's take on modern technology.
I want Agatha Christie back and see what she thinks of Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. Love both of those books, but I want to see Christie's reaction.Then I want to bring Tolkien back and have him give GRR Martin a very good and much needed taking to!
gertt wrote: "I would say Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte because they seemed to see beyond what was expected of women during their time."Sorry gertt, but these two girls wouldn't get along AT ALL!
I would like to interview Enid Blyton I grew up reading her books and would love to know how she came up with all the characters and what or who she based them on.Also Charles Dickens and C.S.Lewis to see what they thought about their books as movies!.
Bjarne wrote: "gertt wrote: "I would say Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte because they seemed to see beyond what was expected of women during their time."
Sorry gertt, but these two girls wouldn't get along AT ALL!"
Haha that's kind of true! All the more reason to resurrect them and have a face-off! :D
They were very different personalities (Austen is the Jesse Eisenberg to Bronte's Mia Wasikowska haha), but I don't think that means they'd automatically hate each other if they knew each other in person.
Sorry gertt, but these two girls wouldn't get along AT ALL!"
Haha that's kind of true! All the more reason to resurrect them and have a face-off! :D
They were very different personalities (Austen is the Jesse Eisenberg to Bronte's Mia Wasikowska haha), but I don't think that means they'd automatically hate each other if they knew each other in person.
All these different authors, on a "Little Women" topic?! I would bring back Louisa May without a moment's thought. Circa 25 years old: once we were decently acquainted, I would tell her I must marry her or die.
Emily Bronte. She was a quirky, tough cookie.
AGATHA CHRISTIE and ENID BLYTON for sure!!
Glenn wrote: "All these different authors, on a "Little Women" topic?! I would bring back Louisa May without a moment's thought. Circa 25 years old: once we were decently acquainted, I would tell her I must marr..."Glenn, I feel that way about Jonathon Swift. We are misanthropic, equescentric soul mates. We would live among the Houyhnhnms and avoid the Yahoos.
Jane Austen, definitely.
Holly wrote: "Glenn wrote: "All these different authors, on a "Little Women" topic?! I would bring back Louisa May without a moment's thought. Circa 25 years old: once we were decently acquainted, I would tell h..."I hear that, Holly. As Carl Sagan said (though doubtless others have noted as well),the past can only transmit, and the present can only receive; the dead speak to us, but we can't speak to them. As for Yahoos, look at the server named for them: the Comments on their pages are little more than lavatory graffiti.
i will call Barbra Cartland
Beatrix Potter. It seems from her books that she had a wonderful imagination. She would be tough to get to know though as from reading about her I get the impression that she was very quiet and introverted.
Totally would want to party with F. Scot Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde and try to delve into their beautiful minds! And of course Edgar Allen Poe! Not to party with, just to have him tell me ghost stories :)
Hello, Anthony Trollope! I have so many questions for the man! I'd like him to know that he's still being read.
Elizabeth wrote: "Totally would want to party with F. Scot Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde and try to delve into their beautiful minds! And of course Edgar Allen Poe! Not to party with, just to have him tell me ghost sto..."F. Scott Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde are two of the most interesting authors ever. But when I was thinking about who I would want to talk with I kind of figured that Fitzgerald would be too drunk and Oscar Wilde would be bored with me (as he was very easily bored with those that did not amuse him constantly). I probably overthought it, but I tried to come up with an author that I wanted to talk with, who I felt would actually share and talk with me.
So many wonderful authors mentioned, I would enjoy a conversation with almost any of those already mentioned, however, my list would have to include St. Benedict, St Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Merten, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, Mother Teresa, Tom Clancy, St Pope John XXIII among others
Good question, and I'd have to say Mark Twain and Jane Austen. What fun that would be!
Theodore Sturgeon. He wrote some amazingly beautiful fantasy, exceptionally inventive science fiction, and beautifully horrific horror; his personality must have been amazing. And from what other science fiction authors said about him, he was a sweet person that just about everyone liked. His stories are full of love for humanity regardless of race, sexual orientation (he wrote one of the first science fiction stories with a gay character) and other factors, while writing about twisted destructive individuals with understanding. He's too little appreciated these days, IMHO.
Ceejay! Another Trollope fan. I'm glad. The most interesting marriage in English literature.Shelley, http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com
Ron Weaver, I know he had to be a fun, loving, energetic person to become one of the creators of the ever so popular Sesame Street.
V. C. Andrews. For killing Cathy and Chris...
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