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Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:26:22 2012 No.2830246 [Reply] [Original]

Authors who are about to die.

Betting pools for authors who are about to die.

John Barth
Don DeLillo
Thomas Pynchon (possibly already deceased)

Please contribute your own contenders.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:28:22 2012 No.2830247 Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He's not even writing anymore because he's loosing his mind. I doubt death is far off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:31:22 2012 No.2830251 >>2830247 >loosing -10 credibility points

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:31:22 2012 No.2830252 McCarthy Roth Rushdie McEwan everyone's gonna die

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:32:22 2012 No.2830254 File: 63 KB, 623x600, GunterGrass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:32:23 2012 No.2830255 BLOOM

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:33:23 2012 No.2830256 >>2830251 I'm not him. Marquez has really lost it. It was on the news the other day, his brother was talking about it or something. He can't remember his shit, he can't think straight.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:34:23 2012 No.2830257 >>2830252 >Rushdie What? He's 65, according to Wikipedia. Unless you think the fatwa against him is likely to be consummated...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:35:22 2012 No.2830259 >>2830252 >McEwan Doubt it. He's only in his 60s, and he seems pretty fit. On topic: Pratchett

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:36:22 2012 No.2830262 >>2830257 There is that new video game...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:36:22 2012 No.2830261 William Gaddis, sadly...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:37:22 2012 No.2830263 >>2830261 Um, he died 14 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:39:22 2012 No.2830271 >>2830263 My bad. I was just going through a mental list of authors who ought to be really old by now. Haven't read him in 2 decades, but his is the first name that came to mind. Man, I'm bummed out to learn about this here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:46:24 2012 No.2830279 Christopher Hitchens.

>>	Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu Sat Jul 21 21:51:41 2012 No.2830297 >>2830279 isn't he already dead? I vouch Paolini.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 21:56:41 2012 No.2830309 Ursula Le Guin

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 22:01:43 2012 No.2830324 Edgar Allan Poe

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 22:01:43 2012 No.2830328

Richard Adams, he's the oldest living author I can think of right now

Clive Barker seems to be getting hospitalized every few months and used to smoke like a chimney so...I'm at least hoping he'll stick around long enough so my inner twelve-year-old can complete the Abarat series.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 22:03:42 2012 No.2830336 Gore Vidal

>>	Standard Toaster !TOASTxk3L. Sat Jul 21 22:09:42 2012 No.2830352 >>2830297 I think that was the joke.

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