It would be worth meeting Shakespeare, I guess, to find out whether he really wrote the plays, although I'm not that preoccupied with their authorship. The one literary mystery I WOULD like to clear up is what happened in the lost books of the SATYRICON, and so I would summon Petronius back from the dead to tell me the story of the entire novel. He would be excellent company, judging from the fragments of the book that have survived--bawdy and urbane.
Meet A Non-Alive Writer Who May Or Mabe NOT, Interesting
Taylor Caldwell. {By herself, no Jess Stear, around}
It would be innteresting to hear her view on ancient history......the we could get into the Woo~Woo stuff!
Fatima, couldn't you pick a classier writer? Like Jacqueline Susann?
Larry<
Let's not ignore the fact that Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls is a "camp" classic and has a large cult following.
Members on this thread who have not read Valley of the Dolls are missing a true literary treat.
The Greek writer who wrote HELL ? Pathmos ? in a cave on this greek island ??? It is a famous work of literature.? help
I actually read Valley of the Dolls for laughs when I was in college and was surprisingly entertained by it. Of its kind, it is pretty good. Superior junk fiction.
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I wouldn't be as kind as you. I would call Valley of the Dolls "trash fiction."
Even so, it is indeed a page-turner. The author probably never intended for the reader to laugh as much as s/he does while reading this book. It is illustrative of just how "good" bad writing can be.
It is definitely not a book for children nor for the faint of heart.
PLATO'S HELL:
The philospher-writer-teacher of Greek civilization who lived between 428-348 B.C. He wrote a very famous book by name PHAEDO in which he explained the IMMORTALITY OF SOUL and in the same book, he narrated about HELL.
Re "Valley of the Dolls": I saw the MOVIE when I was in college. The late Sharon Tate was never more compelling...
I was going to give a boring answer: Thomas Hardy, for no good reason rather than my luv for some of his stuff, but all the Hell talk gave me a much better answer--
Dante Alighieri.
I would like to talk with William Faulkner about changes made by the majority of southern people since his death.
Let's don't leave out Eugene O'Neill.
Sofia, you're right, and maybe at the same table, Virgil...gee, what would I say? I guess I would be busy cooking..
williamhenry, how would Faulkner know what has happened to the South since he died?
Wouldn't it make sense that if we could have tea (or whatever) with a dead author of our choice then they would be up to date on current affairs? Just asking!
Ossobuco---
Now, you're on to something!
I'd be listening raptly!
Can you cook Italiano? Mmm. I order Arrabiata sauce on bowtie pasta.
oh.......yeah.....
Oh, so many! I suppose St. Paul, Shakespeare, Stephen King, Ann Rule, Marcus Aurelius, EMILY dickenson, Procopius Arbiter, Anne Morrow Lindberg, Abraham Lincoln and Adolph Hitler (to see if I could recognize the face of evil).
Larry<
Mr. Faulkner's information on the New South would be revealed to him by me in our conversation.
