Name That Author!

[TranceRolin]

Note: Obviously, the point of this game beyond being sort of fun is to try and get some of the people here to read more. Meh.

I'm going to start a game . . . Basically, a person (starting with myself) will put a paragraph, memorable quote, poem, or something that isn't IMPOSSIBLE TO FIGURE OUT in a post, and everyone else tries to figure out who the author is.

And just to make it easier . . . Put every second letter of the title of the book (or poem) that the quote is from, like so:
F_l_o_s_i_ O_ T_e _i_g
(Fellowship of the Ring)

Here's the title: (see above)

T_e _o_g _a_k _e_-T_m_ O_ T_e _o_l

Here's the quote:

"She enjoyed the notion that New York was home, and that she missed it, but in fact the only thing she really missed was pizza. And not just any old pizza, but the sort of pizza they brought to your door if you phoned them up and asked them to. That was the only real pizza. Pizza that you had to go out and sit at a table staring at red paper napkins for wasn't real pizza however much extra pepperoni and anchovy they put on it.

London was the place she liked living in most, apart, of course, from the pizza problem, which drove her crazy. Why would no one deliver pizza? Why did no one understand that it was fundamental to the whole nature of pizza that it arrived at your front door in a hot cardboard box? That you slithered it out of greaseproof paper and ate it in folded slices in front of the TV? What was the fundamental flaw in the stupid, stuck-up, sluggardly English that they couldn't grasp this simple principle?"

Hint: It's in the very beginning of the book.


Note: Yes, I picked this quote for a reason . . . (Seeing as how there are so many British people here . . . I also have a question)

Is there pizza delivery in England? Just wondering . . . ;D

[The~Inquisitor]

The _o_g _a_k _e_-T_m_ O_ T_e _o_l



The...something something something.
I win!

[cloud]

OF COURSE THERE IS PIZZA DELIVERY IN ENGLAND!

sorry for shouting but its a kinda dumb question..

[Shiguru Wazzat]

The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
so do i say a title and quote now, or do you do another one?
Can you order a pizza for me? (pepperoni, extra cheese)

[PaulC]

Yay, Douglas Adams was the best...

[Cereal Hunter]

Fukkkin popuups!!!!!!!!!121111111 lOLLSFOOLl oLlOO LOL LOL LOL agagagaghaghagagsgaggaga!!!!!!!!

[TranceRolin]

The ultimate pizza is, essentially, a pizza on top of a pizza. =D (taken from the same page)


Yeah, you do one now Shiguru.


I love the paragraph in the beginning about Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. I was beginning to think that it was something serious, then laughed when I finished the paragraph.

[Magi]

*has no idea what everyone is talking about* Why can't we start off with something easy? You know, where all the letters are there but one? ;D
Ex: This is a r_ndom title

[TranceRolin]

...Where is Shiguru?

[Shiguru Wazzat]

i`m here trance

[TranceRolin]

Then do one! (the book stuff, remember? lol)

[Shiguru Wazzat]

okay then, I'll have a go . . .

T_e _o_o_ o_ M_g_c

(anyone who has read this book will recognise it immediatley from the names in this quote)

Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it turned blue, green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outsiders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchants Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.
By now the whole of downtown Ankh-Morpork was alight, and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank where bravely responding to the situation by feverishly demolishing the bridges. But already the ships in the Morpork docks - laden with grain, cotton and tumber, and coated with tar - were blazing merrily and, their moorings burnt to ashes, were breasting the river Ankh on the ebb tide, igniting riverside palaces and bowers as they drifted like drowning fireflies towards the sea. In any case, sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards.

(EDIT) (Hint) The spelling in the title and quote is american, not english.
(Hint 2) That is the first page of the book.

[TranceRolin]

That's Pratchitt's writing, definately. (I don't think that I spelled that correctly)

Yeah, the names were dead givaways.


Edit - I removed the title . . . I really don't feel like doing another book right now. Let's give someone else a chance, shall we? ;D

[PaulC]

The Color of Magic. And it's spelled Pratchett, for the record.
Sooo... here's one from E_d_r_ G_m_.

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
"That's what you said about the brother."
"The brother tested out impossible. For other reasons. Nothing to do with his ability."
"Same with the sister. And there are doubts about him. He's too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else's will."
"Not if the other person is his enemy."
"So what do we do? Surround him with enemies all the time?"
"If we have to."

Also from the first page. Should be easy enough, I'll give you a harder one next time...