Author's Dinner Party
The email arrives, and you are tempted to delete it with the dozen or so, your rich, Nigerian, uncle keeps sending you, asking you to help distribute a particularly generous inheritance.
However, something… You’re not sure what, makes you give it the benefit of the doubt and open it, and at first sight the contents don’t do anything to convince yourself that you made the right decision, so you are about to press delete, and move on to the next email, when you think, ‘well… just, who would I invite?‘
It’s like this. You have been chosen at the last minute, to host this weeks, ‘Association of Book Blogger’s’ dinner party.
A three course meal for four will be delivered at 7:30pm sharp, and all you have to do is invite 3 authors (dead or alive) to join you. Only problem is, you need to get the invites out, like right now! Who’s going to make it to your table?
My three dinner guests would be:
- Douglas Adams
- Terry Pratchett
- Neil Gaiman
Because? 3 of my all time favourite authors around the table, good food, excellent wine? What more could I wish for?
So, who are you going to invite? Let us know in the comments! (and feel free to discuss your reasoning! Do you want a bit of intellectual conversation? Fun? Controversy? Dig some skeletons out of the closet? Mix up some old rivalries? It’s up to you!)
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Posted by Darren on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 8:41 pm
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Oooh, this is fun! I can’t wait to see everyone’s answers. Hmmm, I’d invite Neil Gaiman (of course), Orson Scott Card, and Sarah Waters (because I’m currently reading Fingersmith and loving it!). It would be sure to include some VERY interesting coversation with that lot!
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I suspected Mr Gaiman might be a very busy dinner guest!
Oohoo! This is great! My first pick would be Robert Jordan (author of The Wheel of Time series) b/c he is just the man. I’m having a harder time with my other picks though – there are so many authors I love, but I’m not sure I’d want to talk to some of them.
After some more thought my second pick is Homer (as in the ancient Greek poet) – I’d want to know if he really wrote The Iliad and if so what he knew of the battle firsthand. This is mostly b/c I’m listening to The Iliad right now and it is fascinating.
My third choice would be Charles Eastman, aka Ohiyesa. Look him up on Wikipedia if you haven’t heard of him – he was a fascinating man. I learned about him in the TV mini series “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” and I now have two of his books waiting to be read. He had such an amazing life and many important things to say.
I had a REALLY hard time coming up with those three and excluding such greats as Azar Nafisi, Dava Sobel, David Eddings, Chris Cleave … I could go on forever! But I think that dinner conversation with the three I chose would be incredible, don’t you?!
Sounds like you’ll just have to have another dinner party the following week, to get those extras in!
Christopher Moore and Shakespeare, because I’d like to get Will’s take on Fool. As for a third? I might have to steal Sarah Waters from Chris, just because I think that would make for an interesting conversation.
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Christopher Moore and old Bill? What a cracking couple of guests! Love it!
You know, I’d probably invite the exact same 3
Then the following day I’d have ANOTHER dinner party, this time with Ursula Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones and Margo Lanagan.
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Pinching my guests are you?