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You guys will have to forgive me for I thought carefully and sought out a compromise between too obvious clues and ease of googling. I do not fancy clues that point at actual books written for an unimaginative dude will draw the right parallel sooner or later. But on second thought I realise that some of the authors I encypted might not be the most popular. And even if they crossed one's path, you'd have to be fairly obsessed with them to have known some things about them. So I'll give more clues to worthy ones and let alone the easier ones, at least by my own reckoning.

2. You must have studied his book in school where a certain young son of a gun always wants more.

3. One of her step-granddaughters is Diana, Princess of Wales.

4. He's an archaeologist. I'm afraid I can't go further.

5. He's a favorite of mine and even though it might be hard to fathom his identity, I'll reserve the privilege of unveiling him to y'all.

Mad_Max. Nice going! Thumbs up, mami.

Kay9. Please call me Vesc. My peeps do. Or you could follow Mad_Max' cue, V for Vescucci. I'm afraid any word that contains one 'u' and two 's's lets me off in a naughty tangent as I immediately think of wuss, pussy, sissy. And me, I'm a brave knight always on the prowl for a DID. DID, take that as a pro bono quiz. Or you could always rewatch Hercules. The Walt disney cartoon.

Sisikill has two 's's too. hmmmmmn, funny coincidence.

Mad ke? I happen to dig people with a few screws loose (not too many) but u certainly aren't full fledged yet.

Never experienced deja vu? Now that's really strange. It's either you catalogue all your dreams or you have none. Anything else that 'doesn't happen' to you?

Isn't this a kick in the balls that nobody has even said the quiz is too easy and not worth wasting time answering. Geeeeez!!!!

Ah, take it easy on the poor girl na.

I thought I'd meet more posts here than I'm seeing but no matter, I'm going to give my lil quiz without further ado. You can call it name that author. I compiled it on a long 30mins ride to someplace.

1. His last name rhymes with 'Frighten'. He has an M.D. among other ones. I totally wanna be like him.

2. This guy, though an aristocrat, writes to tackle the often unfair and unfortunate situation of the poor and neglected masses. Another clue: He's british and he's been dead before your pops was born.

3. She's simply the most prolific female writer ever. It is said she wrote a book from beginning to end in a week. She's an oldie too.

4. An explorer and a car collector in real life. His books are a marriage between his true life exploits and fiction.

5. This italian philosopher writes a book no less than six years in between. The only thing stranger than his books is his name.

6. Also writes after a long period has elapsed since his last. Has 4 books with a recurring gentlemanly, charismatic and charming man albeit a cannibal.

7. Second only to Stephen Igwe in terms of weirdness and wears a big moustache.

8. Recently died of pneumonia, I think, and has the same initials with Stephen Spielberg. Girls love him but he never shows his face on his books. Also his last book strangley prophetic was an auto-biography. OK too much info on this guy

Eight is a lucky number in China.

Ah, you make me out like one condescending Rumpelstiltskin. I'm marginally above average (I detest false modesty) I concede but that's about it. And that's even due to some stars aligning on the day of my birth or something. Hehe. I'll cook up something too. I hope it won't be too easy or too hard. I think I'll make it along a line of randomness. No particular theme. Will be back tomorrow!

Another try ke? Me and Karma said the same thing and I think I'll give up if I don't get 50% right. What's the price for success? There should be a reward for all this brainstorming.

Sisi, you just keep getting better and better!

I wish I came here earlier as I'd have made 8 of out ten in the Grisham trivia. I'm somewhat a fan of Grisham but nowadays I tend to more serious books. Grisham has an overall theme and he sticks to it too much. His books explore morality, racism and the human condition all too much. But as it is I've read more than half his books so I guess I dig the guy. His books that I like best are; The Pelican Brief, The Partner and A Time to Kill and Runaway Jury. His worst in my opinion were The Testament and The Chamber. I'm lukewarm about the rest. But there's a homely feeling you get when you read A Painted House and The Last Juror. Enough on the bloke.

Stephen Igwe, my man. The only problem I have with this dude is that he writes when he takes a dump, when he shops, when he sleeps, when he eats, when he practically does everything except writing another book. But he's a man of exceptional talent and he's been around for quite a while. I have a gory and terrible already so I don't get scared by his books. I found Pet Sematary and Misery actually very funny. I ain't related to the devil, so don't ask. As for your trivia Sisi, I'll assume 'The' counts for a word or else I'll be totally stomped. Here goes,

1. The Stand*
2. Rage**
3. The Dark Half**
4. The Dead Zone (the description is more akin to Wastelands but that's hardly three words)
5. I am at wits end. But a wild guess is Bag of Bones. That actually sounds right
6. The Running Man**
7. The Long Walk**
8. Hearts of Atlantis
9. The Talisman
10. The Eyes of the Dragon**

**denotes the books I've not read but have heard of and * denotes a wild guess from the description. I'm fairly sure to get a pass mark.

Now on to MY favorites. I love espionage books as many men folks. Thus I love Robert Ludlum (RIP, my favorite author), Frederick Forsyth and Tom Clancy. Some beautiful books I've read by relatively unknown authors exist but I'll keep that for sake of discussions later. Since I'm fascinated by the occult and conspiracy theories I love Umberto Eco but so far I've been able to lay my hands on only one of his books. Any help would be worshipped!

While y'all are talking about infinity and continuum and what not. I wanna ask if ou guys get the deja vu feeling that you had a deja vu feeling about something. Like ou think, he, this has happened once before when I thought this had happened. Onl it reall couldn't have happened for how could you have forgotten tearing up your university degree. You can only do that once. Well, you know what they say, it's a mad world with mad people in it.

Sisikill. You had the good sense to include that footnote in the 'story'. I swear to God I was going to ask one of two things. How old you were or if the story was an excerpt from one of your stories. The way I see it everybody has a story, some are more dramatic/tragic/sick/adventurous/etc than others. But there are some inviolate facts.

I don't believe that crap that there's only one person for another. I just believe there's a certain kind, a certain breed. You know, like peacocks go after other peacocks and seals go after other seals. A panda falling for a croc is just plain obscene. We humans are a singular biological specie but emotionally, spiritually, mentally and all the -ally you can imagine we are a vast array of separate species. When you delude yourself you're in love with someone and you're actually in love with her booty or his doe. Won't be long before the shit hits the fan. Y'all just hang on, I'll soon land.

In my opinion, men are (most of us) naturally averse to commitment. polygamous is not the word but a guy until he falls in love (real ass kicking love) doesn't know the difference between Julia, Julianna, Julie or Jules. I like the way Julie smiles. I like the way Julianna walks etc. And that attracts them. But it is an exercise in futility to find someone who has all the things you want. So there's nothing like love based solely on character and looks. Hence the term; you gotta make it work.

Men are infinitely more greedy in this regard as a typical dude doesn't want to be bottled up in one place for too long. Doesn't want to be bottled up with one person for too long either. Chics mainly want security; sweep me away to la la land in your arms and all that crap.
Example! I have a friend who was at the threshold of marring one dude and cancelled the relationship. I asked why and she told me she found out she was the only one keeping in touch and the guy didn't make any attempt to reach her after she ignored him for three weeks! So without exchanging words they broke up. I sensed she wasn't heartbroken or anything of the sort and she confessed she was actually reall in love with someone else and this person--though she is sure to feel the same way--is scared to bare his feelings to her. Frankly I was disgusted. I didn't tell her this though. I thought how the hell can you run off with someone while being in love with someone else where there's no external pressure like old age, parents, tribe or whatever. Does anybody smell an overwhelming need for security? I couldn't be in love with someone and settle for anything but. Except if she doesn't feel the same way (which is very unlikely because I'D fall for someone who can emote like I) or she's like bethrothed to the Devil. I'm not even sure if that could deter me.

If you have been able to put up with me this far I'll close my case as regards the Sisikill story. I don't think they were really in love. They both just took a chance. Mind you the probably had a great affection for each other (more than I can say for most people getting hitched nowadas) but there was the extra secret ingredient missing. I have many more unconventional dispositions to matters of the heart but I'D need guided interrogations as I can be ver incoherent and hardl articulate sometimes. So I'D like to entertain cliche questions like 'do you believe in love at first sight', 'can you be involved in an orgy' etc. Whatever strikes y'all.