Your Favorite Novel by a Dead Person
Nov. 28th, 2007 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathschaffstumpI 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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
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.