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Post by tosney on Aug 29, 2011 19:44:23 GMT -5
I don't know enough about Emerson, so someone else can answer that one.
Steven Moffat and JK Rowling.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Aug 29, 2011 20:13:37 GMT -5
Emerson. He'd talk Thoreau into circles and Thoreau would end up drowing himself in a pond. Or perhaps the sky?
JK Rowling. She's got magic, yo.
Tamora Pierce vs. Christopher Paolini.
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Post by Marina on Aug 29, 2011 21:32:08 GMT -5
Tamora Pierce would school Paolini about how to write fantasy without using every cliche there is to fantasy.
Bronte Sisters vs Jane Austen.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 30, 2011 0:04:43 GMT -5
I love Austen, but the Brontes have this one in the bag. They'd tag-team her, then write morbid novels about social climbing being deadly, or some such.
Byron vs Tennyson?
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Post by hitzelc on Aug 30, 2011 4:57:15 GMT -5
Tennyson. Byron would be malnourished, what with all of his dieting and eating disorders. Hemingway vs. _________. Someone please fill in the blank, it is late and I can't think of anyone who would make for a good match. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Aug 30, 2011 8:02:21 GMT -5
Hemingway vs. Sylvia Plath
Imma go with...Hemingway.
Blake vs. Wordsworth
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 31, 2011 7:15:29 GMT -5
I have to say Blake. Wordsworth would just make passive aggressive comments about the daffodils... and then proceed to plagiarize his sister's work. Blake would get all fire-and-brimstone and put the fear of god into Wordsworth. <3<3<3 MARQUEZ ALL THE WAY. That shit's (sur)real, man. T.H. White ( Return of the King) vs. Sir Thomas Malory ( Le Morte D'Arthur)? (/Arthuriandork) |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Aug 31, 2011 8:08:04 GMT -5
Sir Thomas Malory. Fucker killed of Arthur, King of the Britains. White stands no chance. Plus, knighthood. C'MON!
John Milton vs. Edgar Allan Poe
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 31, 2011 17:27:18 GMT -5
Milton. Dude's got Satan in his corner. Poe would probably ask for his autograph before dying, but mostly he'd just brood.
Hm... How about some dystopic girl-on-girl action? Margaret Atwood vs Suzanne Collins.
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Post by tosney on Aug 31, 2011 22:24:23 GMT -5
Isabel Allende vs. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Allende. She would call on bad ass spirits to help her win and Marquez would would only have a bunch of passive townies watching on as he gets beat up. |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Sept 1, 2011 14:57:16 GMT -5
Collins. Her descriptions of food in THG made me hungry all the time.
I'd say James Patterson. Though Evanovich's books are pretty clever.
How about some angsty Russians? Tolstoy vs. Dostoyevsky.
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Post by tosney on Sept 1, 2011 21:10:42 GMT -5
Patterson would win because he's actually a bunch of authors hired to write his ideas under his name, so it would be fifty against one.
Sarah Dessen vs. Meg Cabot
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Sept 2, 2011 7:39:21 GMT -5
FUCK. Those are two of my favourite YA authors (shut up, don't judge me).
Let's see...Sarah Dessen. Both authors write the same thing over and over again, but Dessen writes better characters. Cabot would get confused.
John Keats vs. John Milton
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Sept 2, 2011 13:03:15 GMT -5
Milton. I love Keats, but he was kind of a wuss. Plus, y'know, the whole sickly thing. And the premature death thing. Really a downer.
Tangentially: I took a (non-English-major) friend to see Bright Star when it came out, and when we sat down before the movie she overheard the people behind us mention how sad they were expecting the ending to be (since he, y'know, dies). She turned to me and shrieked, "He dies?!" (yes, interrobang and all), I yelled "I'm sorry, I thought you knew!" and the rest of the theatre thought we were crazypants. Good times, good times.
Epic fantasy ménage à troi: George R.R. Martin vs Robert Jordan vs Tolkien.
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Post by tosney on Sept 2, 2011 13:26:10 GMT -5
Tolkien, obviously. Some of you may hate me for this but Robert Jordan's characters are so terrible they'll dissolve into thin air before the majesty of Tolkein's. And Georgie would be plotting and scheming while Jordan and Tolkien are fighting, and then one of his characters will stab him in the back before anyone realizes what's happening.
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