This week’s Frequent Friday Feature is something I call 3 People.
Here’s how it works.
If you had the opportunity to have a meal with any 3 people, living or deceased, who would they be?
Now, not just any three people. They can’t be fictional, for one thing. And of course, there will be a category.
The category this week is: Authors
So, which three authors (not poets, not songwriters, not playwrights – I’m talking writers of fiction here) would you like to break bread with?
For me, it would be Tim Powers, William Shakespeare and Douglas Adams (who died much too young). I think I’d be laughing too hard to actually eat anything, they’d find me incredibly boring, and then later, Tim would write a freakishly awesome novel involving Catholic blogging, time travel, secret agents of the 16th century British Monarchy, space-faring dolphins, paranoid androids, lots of mistaken identities and perhaps an exiled wizard, too, just for fun.
So who are your three?
That is so easy for me: Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky, and Truman Capote.
Isn’t that weird – and old? I know!
J R R Tolkien, Samuel Clemens, Isaac Asimov
Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton and George MacDonald, so I can ask him what Lilith was about.
Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, and Jim Butcher.
hey, one of them writes literature!
C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen and Erma Bombeck, because I could honestly say, I’ve read most of your works, I love them all and no matter what we ate, the conversation would be alarmingly interesting…I’d have to learn to keep my own mouth shut though. .
C.S.Lewis, Fulton J. Sheen, and Heather King
Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton. But they’d send me away when they got to the port/cigars stage of things, so I’d miss all the important bits.
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis. and L. Frank Baum.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Scott Hahn and Fr. Groeschel (who I met once and I thought he was awesome!)
Herodotus, Saint John, and Chesterton,
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, and Michael O’Brien.
JRR Tolkien (who also makes my “Which Three Teachers Would You Love To Study Under” list), Robert A Heinlein, and St Alphonsus de Liguori. Tolkien influenced me beginning 35 years ago, in the 6th grade, when I read “The Hobbit.” Not just his fiction, but primarily his academic work in philology…. these works are the reason that I studied Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse, in addition to classical languages and German and French. Heinlein, well, he is my all-time favourite science fiction author. And I would really like to ask him if it was his stroke that caused such a marked difference between his earlier work and those he authored later in his life. And St. Alphonsus… his writings, especially “Victories of the Martyrs,” “The Holy Eucharist,” and “The Holy Mass” were central to my conversion to Catholicism. Also, I think he might get a chuckle out of the reaction my girlfriend (now wife) had 20 years ago when she came into the library and saw me reading his “Dignity and Duties of the Priest.” Amidst the sobbing and crying, it took me a while to convince her that I felt called to the married state not to the priesthood… but, bless her heart, she was willing to give me up to that vocation had that been the case.
GK Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the author of the epistle to the Hebrews. Each of them showed remarkable insight to the drama of salvation, and each of them left hints that there was more unsaid than said in their works.
John the Divine – Thomas Jefferson – St. Augustine.
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John Kennedy O’Toole, Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway.
Pardon my obtuseness, but what fiction did Shakespeare write that wasn’t a play or poetry?
Shut up. Don’t you know that rules are for the Little People? LOL
(I realized I did that just before you commented. But shut up anyway…)
I was going to say what gregg said. However, just to be different I would say I would like to have dinner with Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, and I would like to have that dinner just before they started publishing, so I could either poison the lot of them or pull out a gun and shoot them dead as a favour to humanity. (I have a much longer list of “better dead” authors, but you only asked for three.)
George R.R. Martin, C.S. Lewis, and Henryk Sienkiewicz. If I’m allowed a fourth, it’s Suzanne Collins.
You specified ” … (not poets, not songwriters, not playwrights – I’m talking writers of fiction here) …”
Then you went and listed Shakespeare who was both poet and playwright but certainly did not write prose fiction. Dude!
Rule #1 of my blog: rules are for other people. You must be new here.
I’m going to be incredibly low brow and feminist and say Anne McCaffrey, J.K. Rowling, and L.M. Montgomery.
Hard to limit to 3. But would have to say JRR Tolkein, CS Lewis & GK Chesterton if I had to limit to 3.
First off just to suck up to the host, I wouldn’t have minded at all to be at the table when you and Dale Price met up. As for Tim Powers surely his friend James Blaylock would be part of a package deal.
Just pulling out three out of my non-existent hat because if I thought about the subject with any seriousness I would be infinitely deadlocked on picking just three.
Chesterton, Flannery O’Connor, St. Thomas Aquinas.
Plus they would be a nicely matched set, although Flanney would be odd “ma”n out as far as girth goes. Flannery read Aquinas continuously, and of course Chesterton wrote that wonderful book on him.
JF Powers, Graham Greene, and Walker Percy.
J.R.R. Tokein, G.K. Chesterton and Rick Riordan.
C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Mark Twain. Gosh, that would be a fun and interesting dinner.
Malcolm X, Umberto Eco and John Zmirak
Mark Helprin, Walter Miller, and Frank Herbert.
J.R.R Tolkien, G.K Chesterton, and Roy Campbell. – why couldn’t it be 4 People Friday? i couldn’t fit Hilaire Belloc.