Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 (edited) Hello all, Apologies if there is already a thread regarding this but could not find it. I wanted to come up with a quizz thread where one should guess where a character is coming from. The one who answers and find both character and author may be able to start a new quizz. So I start with an easy one : I am a persevering child coping with many sorrows. My father is dead and my stepfather is severe. Fortunately, my nurse loves me. My aunt is providing me with good education. I will work for a notary who will escape bankruptcy. My best friend are books and I will become a writter and, at last, find in Australia the woman that was waiting for me. Who am I ? Edited November 20, 2009 by Echo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Are you David Copperfield? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Correct! Now you are doomed : it's up to you to make us chase for a book character defined by your own sensibility and clues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Hmmm....OK, I'll give it a shot. I am an orphan girl with an unhappy past. I went from living with my tyrannical aunt and cousins to living in a school that was nothing more than a prison, and where I lost my only friend. Now I'm living as a governess in a big house, teaching a young French girl. I'm also finding myself more and more intrigued by my master. But there's something spooky going on in this house...I hear strange laughing at night... Who am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Looks like A little Princess from Burnett but I haven't read it, so I am not sure. Any clue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Nope, that's not it. Any other guesses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Jane Eyre! Sorry for that. Things are somehow so obvious that we may miss them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Yep! It's your turn again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Right. For this one I will try not to provide with much information as it would be quite obvious. I am a central figure of a psychologicaa book. I am a sailor full of remorse. I am mentally broken as I have missed the opportunity to be a hero and at the same time I behaved like a coward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libri vermis Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Lord Jim? Is that you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Congratulations. Now it's your turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libri vermis Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Thank you! And I forgot to mention the author, who is Joseph Conrad. Hmmm, I think people should be able to get this one. I was an up and coming musician from the USA. I wasn't a very nice guy. It took a terrible tragedy of world wide proportions for me to discover the good in myself and work towards being a better person. Who am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Could you possibly be Larry Underwood from The Stand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libri vermis Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 You are correct! I guess it is your turn now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Hmmm...I'll try to think of a good one. I'm a middle-aged woman who is planning a party at my house. I love to give parties! I have friends coming whom I haven't seen for years, and who are both disappointed in the way I've turned out. My daughter is running around with her lesbian tutor, and I've heard rumors that there's a crazy war veteran living in my neighborhood. Who am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 22, 2009 Author Share Posted November 22, 2009 Hello, sorry if i am late. My week-endis busy. This sounds like Mrs Dalloway. If I am right, let me introduce you to our new quizz character (sorry this one does not look like a fun one) : I am a modest bourgeois man who, the whole book through, contemplates the corpse of his suicided wife, the night before she gets buried. Speaking to myself and trying remembering the details of my love life with her, I try to understand who was this stranger I yesterday lived with and why she commited suicide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Maybe it's a hard one if you haven't read it. I give you a clue : it's a russian author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Is it Anna Karenina? I only read the first few pages, so I don't remember her husband's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 No. The woman is really dead the whole book through. The whole plot happens in 1 night only. It's a short story. It's not Tolstoy though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Too late. It was the narrator from A gentle creature from Dostoievsky. A great short story I urge you to discover. I will try with an easier one : I am a famous writter. Married. 2 kids. My life slowly slides into fantastic and horror as the characters from my books are becoming real. And did you think a teddy bear could be so terrifying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thad Beaumont from Stephen King's The Dark Half ticks writer, married, two kids, and people coming to life; however I don't remember a teddy bear and Thad was only famous when writing as George Stark so I'm not sure... . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 No. But you burn Bookjumper. It's a contemporary writer who uses the hallucination codes from Stefen King in a very personal way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 ... and transgressive way. But maybe I m going too far with the clues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Might it be the protagonist of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Maybe. Now I look stupid. I don't know this book. You possibly pointed out some kind of plagiarism. Anyway, my character has the same identity as the author of the book. But it's not biography, it's a fiction. Another clue, this is a post 9-11 US book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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