Q: What book(s) have you read that you wish YOU had written?
(Do writers ((and/or, thinkers)) admit to these things, <wink> : )
Em
(Do writers ((and/or, thinkers)) admit to these things, <wink> : )
Em
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Wish YOU wrote it?
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I forgot to answer my own question.
I wish I'd written Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent. I find the book absolute genius, and the story amazing.
It surprised me to look it up, since I haven't read it in years, and find it is categorized as romance. Although it is romantic, I wouldn't think to categorize it as such. Very interesting.
Em
I wish I'd written Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent. I find the book absolute genius, and the story amazing.
It surprised me to look it up, since I haven't read it in years, and find it is categorized as romance. Although it is romantic, I wouldn't think to categorize it as such. Very interesting.
Em
Beauty by Sherri Tepper, and her Mavin Manyshaped trilogy, the Gate to Women's Country
anything by CL Moore,
Ursula K LeGuin esp. Earthsea, Coming Home & her shorts
Violin by Anne Rice
anything by CL Moore,
Ursula K LeGuin esp. Earthsea, Coming Home & her shorts
Violin by Anne Rice
To the Lighthouse.
Now I'll limp off to nurse my jealousy, too...maybe write like, ten words. Jealous ones. I'll delete em later.
Now I'll limp off to nurse my jealousy, too...maybe write like, ten words. Jealous ones. I'll delete em later.
Time Traveler's Wife is mine too.
Also Twilight- just because I once nursed adolescent Vampire fantasies, but didn't make millions of dollars.
Also Twilight- just because I once nursed adolescent Vampire fantasies, but didn't make millions of dollars.
Trinity by Leon Uris
The man wrote many excellent books, but Trinity is one of the most riveting of them. Not to mention, it is a topic close to my soul, as I am a product of a black irish family.
The man wrote many excellent books, but Trinity is one of the most riveting of them. Not to mention, it is a topic close to my soul, as I am a product of a black irish family.
Do short stories count?
If so: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - although I'm not sure I'd like to inhabit the tortured mind that bore such a bleak mess of a masterpiece.
If so: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - although I'm not sure I'd like to inhabit the tortured mind that bore such a bleak mess of a masterpiece.
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The novels of James Morrow and Louis Bayard -- intelligent, wonderfully well-written and loaded with story, story and more story.
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Maybe if I'd written them it would have been The North and South Decline and Fall. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Maybe if I'd written them it would have been The North and South Decline and Fall. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Far too many to list but here are one or two:
Anything (though most specifically Alias Grace) by Margaret Atwood
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
I could go on forever....
Anything (though most specifically Alias Grace) by Margaret Atwood
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
I could go on forever....
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