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spot the quote well you're all bloody wrong so far, then, aren't you? if you make intellligent guesses and tell me WHY you think you might be right, i will respond by giving clues... and if you DON'T, i will respond by closing down the website. go ahead, punks, make my day... -- si, 19:08:00 03/24/01 Sat i think it is James, he is forever writing things like this, no offense James since I'm sure it was you who brought it up -- M. Griffith, 13:03:03 03/25/01 Sun 
do you indeed? vell you are wrrrong. -- si, 15:05:39 03/27/01 Tue Iain Banks? -- luke, 13:07:30 03/31/01 Sat nope. and if you'd read the first reply, and explained /why/ you chose iain banks, i would now be giving you some more clues. but you didn't. -- si, 11:56:23 04/01/01 Sun 
in which case that doesn't rank very high on my all-time list of intelligently worked-out guesses... -- si, 12:16:52 04/02/01 Mon 
you. because. -- zeina, 14:38:12 04/01/01 Sun as if i'd play a nasty trick like that. no, this was definitely not me, although i'm flattered (and worried about your critical ability) that you should have thought it was. there are PLENTY of clues in the passage, even though it is not an author you have studied. -- si, 12:19:04 04/02/01 Mon saki - kind of dry and unemotional like him and kind of has that curious tone like he does -- zeina, 15:22:39 05/08/01 Tue hmmm... not as bad a guess as i thought at first, but the setting is wrong for sake, and so is the detail of the violence - saki's background is almost invariably upper middle class england/europe... and that's a clue... -- si, 16:23:51 05/08/01 Tue 'sake', indeed. tut. slainte! -- si, 16:25:02 05/08/01 Tue ghandi's alternative ego. -- z, 18:03:08 05/08/01 Tue who on earth is ghandi? -- si, 19:39:04 05/09/01 Wed MORE HINTS PLEASE -- zeina, 08:48:22 05/11/01 Fri I'm pretty sure this is no one I've read. A little too cold and impersonal for Graham Greene though it sounds a bit like him, with the brutality and the exotic location and the possibility of politics -- luke, 13:38:19 05/12/01 Sat Ok i really have no idea and dont know many authors at all but im guessing its modern and if they are talking of havana they are weird and if they are talking of death, kind of morbid. Stephen king. I also think joseph heller even though he is a little older and because i just started reading catch 22 -- james, 18:20:39 05/13/01 Sun if it's not someone you've read, it's someone you should read...:) graham greene's not a bad guess, nor is heller. but to suggest that people who talk about havana are weird... huh? what about, er, people who live in havana? okay, here's a big clue. you're all thinking english/american author. you shouldn't be. -- si, 11:48:47 05/14/01 Mon I nearly bought One Hundred Years of solitude last week, flicked through it in Magrudys. Maybe it's Gabriel Garcia Marquez (spelling?) -- luke, 19:13:51 05/17/01 Thu 
argh - the whole point is that you have to offer some kind of substantiation of WHY you guess any particular author. congratulations, anyway - you are right, marquez it is. it would have been so much more interesting to know /why/ you thought it might be. it is now your turn to post a new extract! oh, and bonus points and/or a free pint for anyone who can work out /which/ marquez it is from... -- sj, 20:28:00 05/23/01 Wed nope i have to disagree with luke. whateverhisnameis is much more magical and soft from what i remember .... and also sort of ancient too..... this seems too modern, sharp and dry -- zeina, 08:04:49 05/18/01 Fri well done, zeina - you are playing by the rules, and giving appropriate details as to why you agree/disagree. good. unfortunately you're completely wrong. -- sj, 20:29:29 05/23/01 Wed i hate this game. hmph. so where are all the responses you promised for the rest of the stuff we wrote then? -- zeina, 15:36:33 05/24/01 Thu 
promised? you're making things up... anyway, soon, soon, i promise. oops. -- sj, 19:12:16 05/24/01 Thu Yey woohoo. Just a guess, I'v never read any of his stuff, but Donovan and Zeina were talking about him. I'll post something really easy later. -- luke, 17:37:15 05/24/01 Thu 
i'm so gutted it should be won by a complete guess. so much for developing your analytical skills in an informal context. tut. -- sj, 19:14:13 05/24/01 Thu thats so unfair how we'll go and have a discussion about him while a quote from some book of his sits on this message board and i'll not even know it. tut. -- zeina, 22:47:49 05/24/01 Thu