Zombie Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 But where is Sir Peanuts Fan? Still, I can't pass up on my cue. Aussie Rob's passage is, if traumatized memory serves correctly, from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". I'm still looking to Wayne for the next passage though. Looks like Wayne's found other attractions So try this: "... he looked to his left again to find a man's face staring into his own from about nine inches away. The face, which filled with alarm as he gazed, belonged to the driver of a van which Welch had elected to pass on a sharp bend between two stone walls. A huge bus now swung into view from further round the bend. Welch slowed slightly, thus ensuring that they would still be next to the van when the bus reached them, and said with decision: 'Well, that ought to do it nicely, I should say.'"
Andy78 Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 I think it's Sir Kingsley Amis, but I haven't read any of his stuff in nearly fifteen years. Dunno . . . Colonel Sun??
Zombie Posted February 8, 2013 Posted February 8, 2013 Clue time? Hmmm? Oh alright then. The eponymous hero is a university professor
Andy78 Posted February 8, 2013 Posted February 8, 2013 "Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor’s little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun."
Zombie Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Oh no, please tell us it's not another musty fusty dusty thing by a dead guy ... which means it's clue time!! 1
podga Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Oh no, please tell us it's not another musty fusty dusty thing by a dead guy ... which means it's clue time!! Yes, because we only recognize passages by writers that are still alive
Andy78 Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 It's a musty fusty dusty thing by a dead woman (for a change) It's set in pre-war England, and is mostly told through the eyes of the various women in the life of the title character
Andy78 Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 It was published in 1922. The title character is a straight male, and the author was a straight female. The story begins in the title character's childhood, and follows through to his death in WW1. Because of the way the story is presented (other people's opinions of the title character, with him actually rarely being in it), it has been argued that the book doesn't actually have a protagonist.
Zombie Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Not a bag of laughs then Nope. Not gonna get this one
Slytherin Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 I can name a lot of male authors at that time but female, nope... - the only name I can think of is Agatha Christie and this is so NOT her style I give up..
Yettie One Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 "...but mercifully," she scribbled, ignoring the full stop, "everything seems satisfactorily arranged, packed though we are like herrings in a barrel, and forced to stand the perambulator which the landlady quite naturally won't allow...."
Andy78 Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 is in shock that someone playing this game has actually read a book
Slytherin Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Edited February 11, 2013 by slytherin 1
podga Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 I say we just give this to Yettie, who's obviously quoting from the same book, the showoff.
Zombie Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 (edited) I say we just give this to Yettie, who's obviously quoting from the same book, the showoff. You're right about the Abominable Showoff - I just looked it up [well none of us was gonna get it ] and it's Virginia Woolf "Jacob's Room" - you know, that airport blockbuster that outsells Jacky Collins, the Rowling woman and Stephanie Something combined But we were put off the scent by the evil sheep's misdirection " the author was a straight female". Yeah, that would be "straight" as in "I think I'll just hop into bed with Shirley Williams's mum for a quickie" Edited February 12, 2013 by Zombie
Yettie One Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 Oh you cheeky Zombie!!!!! It is indeed Virgina Woolf writing Jacobs Room. A rather strange tale by one of my mothers fav authors, and as I am reading through the book collection with her, it is one we read some time last year. I had to go dig out the collections of Virginia Woolf to work out which one it was mind. Much preferred Orlando which posed some interesting ideas around transgender issues! Mrs Dalloway is my mom's fav and we've read that about three times over the years. So na na na na nah to Zombie! Okies so here is my entry..... "......At twenty three he was already a three year veteran of the state penitentiary at Parchman. Possession, with intent to sell. He was a lean, tough little punk who had survived prison by somehow maintaining a ready supply of drugs....."
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