Dead Authors

[MrsBear87]

Would they teach literature or writing?

Wouldn't it be great to have Dickens and Hemmingway team teach? They'd drive each other crazy. Hemingway would be chopping everyone's writing into tiny, short sentences, while Dickens would be ballooning them up with sentences that ran for half a page.

[President Camacho]

When I read Old Man and the Sea it instantly became my favorite book. The author, in my mind, altered his writing style to better compliment the characters and setting of his tale. Then I read A Farewell to Arms and it shattered this perception I had. Hemingway just wrote like that all the time. I gave Farewell to Arms 1 star while many people like it. I just thought the writing was bad. His simplistic style contributed to the Old Man but did nothing but take away from Farewell.

Dickens! Another of my favorite novels is Great Expectations. What a great book with a great writing style. I've recently finished The Old Curiosity Shop and unfortunately for me it was a flop.

I'm not an English teacher so I don't really know how to explain that I thought the writing was good but the content was bad. A person was crying on every page and the ending was like - so that's how you're going to end it? Like that?

I think the person to teach me would have to be Alexandre Dumas, pere or Honore de Balzac.

[Tati-Ana]

Definitely I would like to be taught by Bernard Shaw and Jerome K. Jerome even by accepting the possibility to be dissed by Bernard.

[Tati-Ana]

Definitely I would like to be taught by Bernard Shaw and Jerome K. Jerome even by accepting the possibility to be dissed by Bernard.