Who Wrote That Book #2

forgot to fill in the Jack London one. *facepalm*

22/24. Couldn't get Graves or Roth. I only knew Kesey, Wallace, Herbert, Morrison, and Plath because I'm in quiz bowl, and I'm pretty surprised I remembered Herbert.

Nice quiz, got caught up on Ovid for Metamorphosis, and my mind refused to accept that it was wrong. (Yeah, I know, no 'The' in the translation of the title...)

I got 23 on my first try, thanks to helpful comments. Thanks everybody.

I got Twain, Tolkien, Dahl, Lee, London, Capote, Austin, and Milton by myself.

For The Prince, I first put Saint-Exupery wondering why it didn't work. Then I remember it was asking about The Prince, not Le Petit Prince.

I, Claudius is one of my favorite books.

I'm an English major. You were right.

It really bothers me when my average for a quiz shows that on previous attempts I missed certain answers that I could never get wrong, and credits me for others I've never heard of. My results here show that I previously missed Tolkien, Twain, Capote, etc., which is NOT possible. It also shows that last time I correctly answered Morrison, Graves, Marquez, etc., which is also not possible. Seems to happen to me a lot, and there is little point in having cumulative scores if they are meaningless.

I kept trying Ovid for the Metamorphosis!

Probably too much time on this quiz. You could cut a minute off it, easily. I got 16 fairly quickly, but the others i had no idea about. Four of them i've never heard of, the other four I wasn't too likely to guess given the sheer volume of authors out there.

I've actually never read 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. My familiarity with Kesey largely comes from Tom Wolfe's 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', which is a fantastic work of New Journalism on the '60s counter-culture, following Kesey and his 'Merry Pranksters' around America as they ingest startling quantities of LSD.

I only got five, :/ but I'm really surprised all of them are among the less guessed ones: Rushdie, Kafka, Tolkien, Dante, Dahl.

I think it's wrong to have Marquez as a possible last name for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and not Garcia. Garcia (his father's main last name) is the name he passed onto his children, not Marquez (his mother's main last name). I understand keeping Marquez, although no Spanish speaker would ever call him Marquez because understanding Spanish naming conventions is not the point of this quiz.

Spanish-language newspapers used Garcia Marquez, unlike most people with Spanish last names, such as Vicente Fox Quesada, in which they mainly used the paternal last name. But if they had to choose one, they would almost certainly choose Garcia, not Marquez.

(If you wanted to be very fancy, you could add Gabo, his nickname, as an acceptable answer.)

I'm really surprised that more people have heard of Salman Rusdhie than they have Roald Dahl.

I'm very surprised Capote didn't get me credit for To Kill A Mockingbird too.

How do only 58% get Twain?

Sylvia Plath is on both quizzes for the same book, "The Bell Jar." Maybe it's not on purpose? I noticed it because I just took both consecutively.