myLot Discussions| I think that Daphne du Maurier is my favourite author, do you know about her? | | The famous author was born on 13th May1907 in London into an artistic and prosperous family, she had two sisters - Angela and Jeanne - she was the second daughter and her father,who had wanted a son, encouraged her to dress like a boy, cut her hair short, and adopt an alter ego she named "Eric Avon."
Her father was in fact, Sir Gerald du Maurier - an actor and a manager who later became a writer, one of his works was 'Svengali and Trilby' - DuMaurier actually creating the mad hypnotist, Svengali.
Daphne's mother was also an actress - Muriel Beaumont, and her grandfather was the caricaturist George du Maurier.One of her ancestors was Mary Anne Clarke, the mistress of the Duke of York, son of King George III, Mary Anne Clarke's daughter married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier - their son was Daphne's grandfather.Rebecca is undoubtedly Daphne Du Mauriers' most famous novel - and my favourite - and the theme of the novel - Jealousy - came to Daphne the year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, he had been engaged before - to glamorous, dark-haired Jan Ricardo. The suspicion that her husband remained attracted to Ricardo haunted Daphne.Jan Ricardo, tragically, died during the... | |
| | ordinary things which become strange | | In my discussions received this morning was a reference to Edgar Allen Poe, a name I was familiar with but one that just doesn't come up in ordinary conversations.
No sooner had I quit working on mylot and gone in for coffee and a favorette TV show when Edgar Allen Poe's name and works apear on the Antique Road Show. It does make you stop and wonder about how information gets around? I know I will now be
waiting for more Poefavourite - and the theme of the novel - Jealousy - came to Daphne the year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, he had been engaged before - to glamorous, dark-haired Jan Ricardo. The suspicion that her husband remained attracted to Ricardo haunted Daphne.Jan Ricardo, tragically, died during the Second World War. She threw herself under a train.
Films of her works include Jamaica Inn 1939 and Rebecca 1940 - both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Frenchman's Creek 1944, The Years Between 1946, The Hungry Hill 1947, My Cousin Rachel 1952, The Scapegoat 1952, The Birds Hitchcock again) 1963 and Don't Look Now 1973.
Daphne Du Maurier was awarded the National Book Award in 1938 for Rebecca, inn 1969... | |
| | Which way would death become you? | | Not to be morbid, someone recently pointed out the ironies of some famous people's deaths. For example, Edgar Allen Poe's death was wrapped in mystery when he died after having been found unconscious in the street -- dressed in clothes that were not his! Nobody has ever figured out just what happened. What better way for a mystery writer to go? When the great poet Percy Bysse Shelley died, he was cremated. Nobody was sure why his heart was so calcified that it would not burn! His wife kept it in her desk while she was writing Frankenstein! Irony abounds. I could go on and on, with many more such suitable deaths.
When your time comes, what sort of death would become you? How would it suit your particular persona??? | |
| | | Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I'm sick to death of snobs! | | I'm nowhere near as good as the following authors, but please note, I have one thing in common with all of them. They, like myself, have all been at one time self published! I'm so sick of snobs (mostly ignorant jerks from the LOCAL press) who tell me I'm not REALLY published, since I'm self published. Oh, yeah? Well, go suck eggs, Journal-Gazette and News Sentinel! Go to h-e- double hockey sticks, all of you who think self publishing is for nobodies! I'm sick to death of you! Here's a list of nobodies for you dummies to ponder!Alexander Dumas
Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anais Nin
Beatrix Potter
Benjamin Franklin
Bernard Shaw
Carl Sandburg
Christopher Paolini
D.H. Lawrence
Deepak Chopra
E. Lynn Harris
E.E. Cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ernest Hemingway
Ezra Pound
George Bernard Shaw
Gertrude Stein
Henry David Thoreau
Homer
Irma Rombauer
Jack Canfield and Mark Hensen
James Redfield
John Grisham
John Muir
Julius Caesar
Ken Blanchard
L.Frank Baum
L.Ron Hubbard
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Leo Tolstoy
Lord Byron
Louis L'Amour
Marcel Proust
Mark Twain
Marlo Morgan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pat Conroy
Percy Bysche Shelly
Pliny the... | |
| | His literary genius | | My father and I were discussing the works of Edgar Allen Poe. He told me his favorite was "the tell tale heart" and how much it had chilled him. He also liked "The Raven" due to the poetic words that flowed poetically. Mine are "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Black Cat" I really don't know why I picked these two, but they grabbed me as if a hand was reaching out of a grave somewhere in my mind. The season of Halloween pales in comparison to what E A Poe has done for the written word. Do you have a personal favorite, and why?[em]ninja[/em] | |
| | master of horror | | Edgar Allen Poe has to be the maste of horror. His books get inside the characters head and extract fear and bottle it up. I like the raven because its about fear and despair. I wanna read the fall of the house of usher. Whats that about? | |
| | Top 100 Books | | The staff at the Harvard Book Store has put together a list of their top 100 books ever written. http://www.harvard.com/onourshelves/top100.html Books listed are:A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
On the Road Kerouac
Alice in Wonderland Carrol
Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky
The Age of Innocence Wharton
Don Quixote Cervantes
Perfume Suskind
Ulysses Joyce
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Cry the Beloved Country Paton
Dracula Stoker
The Eagles Die Marek
Emotionally Weird Atkinson
The Handmaid's Tale Atwood
Infinite Jest Wallace
Kitchen Yoshimoto
London Fields Amis
Moise and the World of Reason Williams
Movie Wars Rosenbaum
Paradise Lost Milton
Persuasion Austen
Tortilla Curtain Boyle
Visions of Excess Bataille
Where the Wild Things Are Sendak
Wild... | |
| | "The Poet by Michael Connelly is Crime Fiction Masterpiece" - Did you enjoy it? | | Jack McEvoy is a crime reporter working for the Rocky Mountain News. His only brother is a homicide detective, that committed suicide, because of depression from a traumatizing case. In hot pursuit of the truth, relating to his brother's death, Jack becomes involved in a stellar pursuit of a killer called "The Poet". A killer of detectives, who's calling card is leaving lines from Edgar Allen Poe poems, at crime scenes.
"The Poet" is a fantastic, thrilling, suspenseful, crime fiction novel. Contains a strong leading man and a strong leading woman, that is sexy also. The story and narration, are riveting and tenacious. The prose, is filled with depth and resonates with dark despondency. Michael Connelly infused "The Poet" with masterful substance. With great ambition, he created characters and plot points, that cement you, to your seat. It's filled with action but does not forget the impact and grip, of emotions. The enemy of the story is cleverly created. He is a killer that evokes evil and a nemesis whose actions grip and fill you, with great anticipation of his ultimate demise.
Did you enjoy Michael Connelly's The Poet? | |
| | Did you like "The Poet" by Michael Connelly? | | Jack McEvoy is a crime reporter working for the Rocky Mountain News. His only brother is a homicide detective, that committed suicide, because of depression from a traumatizing case. In hot pursuit of the truth, relating to his brother's death, Jack becomes involved in a stellar pursuit of a killer called "The Poet". A killer of detectives, who's calling card is leaving lines from Edgar Allen Poe poems, at crime scenes. "The Poet" is a fantastic, thrilling, suspenseful, crime fiction novel. Contains a strong leading man and a strong leading woman, that is sexy also. The story and narration, are riveting and tenacious. The prose, is filled with depth and resonates with dark despondency. Michael Connelly infused "The Poet" with masterful substance. With great ambition, he created characters and plot points, that cement you, to your seat. It's filled with action but does not forget the impact and grip, of emotions. The enemy of the story is cleverly created. He is a killer that evokes evil and a nemesis whose actions grip and fill you, with great anticipation of his ultimate demise.
Did you like "The Poet" by Michael Connelly? | |
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