Your Favorite Novel by a Dead Person
Nov. 28th, 2007 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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
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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.
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Date: 2007-11-28 04:54 pm (UTC)I think they can be read for free online now. 'The Hog' is quite wonderful/awful.
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Date: 2007-11-29 03:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 05:26 pm (UTC)Tomorrow the answer will probably be different.
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Date: 2007-11-29 12:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-29 03:15 pm (UTC)once i'm donedonedone! with hp (and new library books distracted me from that-one) i'll plunge into the sea of books and go for some ghosts first. wattill i finis hdracula. or little women. but dont' hesitate to scold me now. either for being so behind or for the fact that i'm feeling liek i'm behind on things.
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Date: 2007-11-30 12:49 am (UTC)