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Can you beat 97 books in a life time?
Posted by Lale on 25/4/2001, 13:35:51
I just found out that Sir P. G. Wodehouse has written a minimum of 97 books. (http://members.tripod.com/~WatkynBassett/pgw.htm)
Do you know of any authors that have come close or has broken that record?
Posted by muharrem on 19/5/2001, 13:48:20, in reply to "Can you beat 97 books in a life time?"
his greatest achievement was writing the same book 97 times and making them eminently readable despite this. i should know; i read most of them
Posted by Kemal on 21/5/2001, 22:11:15, in reply to "Re: Can you beat 97 books in a life time?"
All I can say is I wish he'd written another 97 books ! He is the greatest comic writer. Who else could come up with gems such as:
"Aunt Agatha's demeanour was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway track, has just caught the down express in the small of the back"
"He died of cirrhosis of the liver. It takes money to die of cirrhosis of the liver"
"Percy stared before him like a man who has drained the wine-cup of life to its lees only to discover a dead mouse at the bottom"
"Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad"
Posted by Dave on 21/5/2001, 23:39:38, in reply to "Can you beat 97 books in a life time?"
A very prolific dude was Isaac Asimov, the published author of over 400 books including (of course) science fiction, highly praised intros to astronomy, the history of science, chemistry, archaeology and the Bible.
Posted by Lale on 24/5/2001, 8:56:19, in reply to "Re: Can you beat 97 books in a life time?"
I agree. Asimov was a genius. And, all of those books mentioned (on bible, on science etc.) were written with extensive, scholarly research.
Posted by Michael Sympson on 3/9/2001, 7:37:48, in reply to "Re: Can you beat 97 books in a life time?"
Dumas Père produced close to 400 novels and a gargantuan cook book (which I own); Lope de Vega wrote 1,600 (one thousand six hundred) plays. Dumas increased his writing speed by leaving punctuation entirely to his type setters. There was a Venetian playwright whose name I forgot, who produced some 140 plays.