Literary death matches. contribute some suggestions of various authors from any era of history (dead ones only, please) and then we randomly pair em up into death matches. Could Francis Bacon have beaten down William Shakespeare? Or whould they both have been made to submit to the might of Stephen King (okay okay, he's not dead, but it was the silliest thing i could think of)

"If I wanted to read Wuthering Heights, I'd shoot my self."

Good plan. I forward Chaucer, Poe and (of course) the master of them all, he who should never have died: Douglas Adams. :cry:

Kilgore Trout.

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Does it have to be a duel (two people) or can it be a brawl (more than 2 people)?

Friends don't let friends take up scrapbooking!

TS Eliot against anyone. His power of symoblism will take down anyone!!

(In truth I'm sick of him. I hope to GOD I never have to read Burnt Norton EVER AGAIN!)

"Because purple spiders are napping on the moon, that's why!"

[quote:8e5b541816="Maljonic"]Kilgore Trout. [/quote:8e5b541816]

OK, Mal, if you're introducing fictional writers (as opposed to fiction writers) - which particular version do you mean? (For those not recognizing the reference, see here) - or maybe a couple of the rounds could be Kilgore Trout versus Kilgore Trout!

If he's a fictional writer, how come I just read one of his books, Venus on a Half Shell?

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http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/trout.html

This might answer some questions.

Sounds like a fictional character who outgrows his author and takes on a life of his own.

[quote:b1abe483f1="Maljonic"]If he's a fictional writer, how come I just read one of his books, Venus on a Half Shell? [/quote:b1abe483f1]

Because as mentioned in at least two links in this thread, that one was Philip Jose Farmer getting in on the act (as I remember it, with a not very good book!) - which is why I suggested the possibility of a couple of rounds of Kilgore Trout versus Kilgore Trout.

Maybe we could have a second category for fictional authors - that could include Dr Watson (for Sherlock Holmes) and General Sir Harry Flashman VC (based on the Flashman papers, since his chronicler George MacDonald Fraser has not seen fit to resurrect "Dawns and Departures of a Soldier's Life")

If we are having a fictional author category, I nominate Lemony Snickett.

[quote:8dd80dd0b4="Pixel"][quote:8dd80dd0b4="Maljonic"]If he's a fictional writer, how come I just read one of his books, Venus on a Half Shell? [/quote:8dd80dd0b4]

Because as mentioned in at least two links in this thread, that one was Philip Jose Farmer getting in on the act (as I remember it, with a not very good book!) - which is why I suggested the possibility of a couple of rounds of Kilgore Trout versus Kilgore Trout.

Maybe we could have a second category for fictional authors - that could include Dr Watson (for Sherlock Holmes) and General Sir Harry Flashman VC (based on the Flashman papers, since his chronicler George MacDonald Fraser has not seen fit to resurrect "Dawns and Departures of a Soldier's Life")[/quote:8dd80dd0b4]

[quote:8dd80dd0b4="a very true source"]There are some that will tell you that Kilgore Trout doesn't exist- don't listen to them. These are the same naysayers that will tell you that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Illuminati do not exist.[/quote:8dd80dd0b4]

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S. Morgenstern could beat up all of those other fictional writers, yo. :p

joe pancake?

Robert E. Howard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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A quick list of dead novelists:
Robert Heinlein,
Isaac Asimov,
Frank Herbert,
Ernest Hemingway,
John Steinbeck.

How about Charles Dickens? Or Alexander Pope.

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