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Post a few hints about the typical writing style of an author and let's see who guesses whom. This includes clues such as elements, vernacular, syntax, etcetera that are common in most of that author's literary productions or significant productions.

I'll start:


New England locations
Whores and ghonorrhea
the German language

Guess the author who uses these elements?
 
shesulsa said:
Post a few hints about the typical writing style of an author and let's see who guesses whom. This includes clues such as elements, vernacular, syntax, etcetera that are common in most of that author's literary productions or significant productions.

I'll start:


New England locations
Whores and ghonorrhea
the German language

Guess the author who uses these elements?
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Saul Bellow?
 
Of course if I actaully finished Hotel New Hampshire I might know for sure :D, but I wonder if it's John Irving.
 
You're both correct! John Irving.

So ... post some clues to another author and we can guess.
 
elder999 said:
New England locations
pop culture
improbable battles between good and evil
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...and faced a real-life horror story when he was struck by a van and nearly killed.

Stephen King
 
Ohhh waht a wonderful Idea for a game! Here is one:

New England Author
Gothic Horror
Created a pantheon of sinister, evil Gods.

Good Luck,
Rob
 
Phadrus00 said:
Ohhh waht a wonderful Idea for a game! Here is one:

New England Author
Gothic Horror
Created a pantheon of sinister, evil Gods.

Good Luck,
Rob
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Hey Rob :) I will say HP Lovecraft.. though Poe was also from Boston I believe.. but I guess from your description you mean Lovecraft, right? what say ye?

Yr most obdt hmble srvt,
Jenna
 
definitely lovecraft. Right? Poe didn't create a pantheon of evil gods - spent more time on the inhumanity/insanity of man against man.
 
Poe was from Baltimore ;)
 
Carol Kaur said:
Poe was from Baltimore ;)
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Poe had an interesting childhood-both parents were actors, and he lived on the road, until his parents died when he was 3. After they died, he went to live with an aunt in Richmond, Virginia, but the aunt and her husband went to Europe, and Poe was educated in England and Scotland.He later lived in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore...though he didn't live in Baltimore with another aunt-and mother of his child bride, Virginia, until after publishing his first three volumes of poems, which didn't sell-hence the stay with his aunt. LAter, of course, he would die in Baltimore....

,..but he was born in Boston.....:)

(sorry, Poe's an obsessive favorite from my childhood.....)
 
Jenna said:
Hey Rob :) I will say HP Lovecraft.. though Poe was also from Boston I believe.. but I guess from your description you mean Lovecraft, right? what say ye?

Yr most obdt hmble srvt,
Jenna
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Jenna and tradrockrat you win the Prize... this very special...er...ahh... Bunch of Flowers! hehehehehehe

It was indeed HP Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos... sinister and dark are they!

Rob
 
syntax suggests certain accents and dialects
impossible feats
fantasy of youthful boys
hints at homosexuality
 
elder999 said:
Ann Rice?-giggle!-
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:lol2: No, I didn't put "fairy tale fantasy" in there ... :lol2:
 
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