Your Favorite Novel by a Dead Person

I don't have anything to report today, as I did the sick thing in earnest last night.

Sleep=Yummy.

However, I do have a question: who is your favorite dead writer? I personally love Alexandre Dumas and Jane Austen. It's fashionable to emulate both of these writers in current fiction. I've yet to find anyone to pull off more than a surface level Dumas (witty repartee and sword waving do not a Dumas make!), but I found a good emulation of Austen in Sorcery and Cecelia, by 1crowdedhour and Patricia Wrede, who if she is on live journal, I do not know the user name of.

At any rate, I thought I would pose the musical questions: Who is your favorite dead author, and which novel of their do you like the best.

For me:

Alexandre Dumas Twenty Years After (Count of Monte Cristo is a better book. I know it!)

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (it's the most spritely. However, I think there's a lot of good in Persuasion as well, which speaks to me more at this stage of life.)

Your own answers I await with eagerness. Remember, dead.

Whackmaster 3000

Dutifully whacked chapter 8 and into chapter 9. Now, time passes between chapters 7 and 8, quite a bit, and so there's a lot of exposition in there I have to tighten up. Could be pretty boring otherwise. It's all in there for a reason, but the puzzle will be how to deliver it without being boring.

At any rate, 100 pages until the end to look at, some material to add in from the first version, and then another language polish/write. I wonder if I can have this back in Agent A's hands before the college breaks for Christmas. I think that's what I'd like to shoot for.

Then I can focus on a paper I have to do comparing English language education in the US and in Japan. And the next book.

Remember, these posts are mostly to keep me honest. However, now that I'm thinking of it, I'm curious. What are you folks working on right (or write) now?

Catherine