If your life were to be novelized, who would you want to write it?

Dr. Seuss. I would love to see my life in his pictures and rhymes.

Dean Koontz or Piers Anthony - Mariah..Seuss...good one

Tom Robbins or St-Exupéry

James Michener. I want it to be an epic.

I like Mariah's idea. Dr. Seuss would be so cool.

Would you do it on a boat? Would you, could you, in the moat?

I think Harlan Ellison, becuase he's one of like six people I've met who is as stubborn, cynical, sarcastic, and annoying as I am (Twist is another like that).

The few writers I know from this list don't seem appropriate. Diana Gabaldon would be nice.

Hey, gilly, her book is called White Knight!!! Isn't that what the medieval survey said you were? Ooohhh...freaky...

Living Author:
Stephen King

Deceased Author:
Marquis de Sade
or
Oscar Wilde
or
Edgar Allen Poe
or
Dante Alighieri

Brian...Oliver Twist?
:)

Mariah: Weird, I hadn't noticed that (that book isn't out yet, so I tend to forget about it.) Guess I've found my new calling.

Kevin Cameron.

How about Hunter S. Thompson? With art by Ralph Steadman, of course.

A romance author b/c everythign turns out happy...

David Foster Wallace, Iain Banks, ...I'm just picking favorite authors here because I'd want the book to be something I'd like to read.

AP: I have this idea that coming up with a happy ending is your job... the writer just makes it sound interesting :)

J.K. Rowling (are those the right initials?). She wrote the Harry Potter books. Or possibly James Thurber.

Enheduanna, "Fear and Loathing at Survey Central"?

Fluffball: kind of has a ring to it, doesn't it? And then Johnny Depp could star as me in the movie. OK, so that doesn't quite work...

myself, with a little character help from Mr. King!

fluffball- i thought that movie was wacko, but they loved it

Guy Gavriel Kay. Or me. ;)

Terry Pratchett

Douglas Adams. He'd provide just the right mix of scathing wit and over-wordiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett should write each others' life stories.

magbast, I'm not a bigger Hunter S. Thompson fan, but I had to study him in college.

Enheduanna, the title really does have a ring to it. :) And Johnny Depp's always a good lead, but one little point, are you male or female?

Brett Easton Ellis

Rebecca Wells

Jeff Noon

Enheduanna - a little hormone therapy would help him along

My mom.

Fluffball: I am indeed female. But Johnny Depp is a good actor--maybe he could pull it off. Especially if he followed romkey's suggestion...

drdt: Just don't make me read the results of either. Pratchett has joked he'd "write an autobiography if he thought anyone would believe it" - I hope some day he does, no-one except him could do it justice in my opinion.

Who would I want to write it? No one on this list of choices except maybe me... What about Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, Tom Robbins...
All the greats are being ignored... SIgh....

That's okay, I would want Morrissey to write it and he's not even an author....

moz, morrisey can give me the chills sometimes...he's so passionate!

Of course I've been on a Gaiman kick lately.

I want to write an autobiography someday.

No Kurt Vonnegut??

Maybe he could spice it up a little and eventually turn it into a movie.

Frank McCourt.

Morrissey is definately the most passionate celebate I've been heard of...

And I think he does wonderful things with the english language...

And he's English... [sIgH...] :)

HP Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, William S Burroughs, Hunter S Thompson, Philip K Dick, several others...

jzp - LOL...I don't know if you have swear-blocking turned on, but this is too funny. I don't believe I've ever read anything by Philip K %&#@... Hey, I wonder how the swear filter would feel about Bruce Cockburn watching a biography of Emily Dickinson on a Matsucrapa television...

ILJ - LOL

Bill, that swear filter needs a bit of tuning. I'm guessing it wouldn't be happy if a book by Philip K Dick were read under a pussy willow tree.

Rob Grant & Doug Naylor -- authors of Red Dwarf. Their books are exactly the style I'd want my life to be novelized. But generally speaking I'd do it myself. Make it a musical, actually.

sedi: Hey, another Red Dwarfer in tha house!

Yeah Brian! I was in the studio audience for "Rimmerworld" (series 6) and "Pete part 2" (series 8).

sedi: Lucky ****! I guess you heard about the Red Dwarf movie.

John Varley would be about my speed.

Rita Mae Brown

How come there are so many more men than women listed above?

Avocado: When I was writing the list, I just popped in the authors that came to mind. Diane Carey is female. L.A. Graf is TWO Females.

E.M.Forster
It would end up much more refined and romantic!

Yep Brian I did.

Robert Smith of the Cure. He has a way of making tragic things sound beautiful & beautiful things sound so tragic.

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Twist, I have to go hear that song now...

It's my absolute favorite song by The Cure. I play it over and over and over and over and over.........

What's the title?

Just Like Heaven

I have no idea, I am not too familiar with all these writers. I think it would make a pretty good story so far.

Of these, P. J. O'Rourke. Only problem is that he's really an essayist, and I'd like to think of my life as deserving of a longer write-up than that.

for 'Other': Neal Stephenson. Another epic writer, and a better one than Michener IMO.

Stephen King fictionalizing my ex step-mom. Now there's a scary thought.

Edgar Allen Poe