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Authors Card Game

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Authors was my favorite card game as a child (and still is)and I was thrilled to find my kids (now 13 and 11, but we've been playing it for years) love it as much as I did. It plays like Go Fish but way more challenging because you don't just ask for William Shakespeare but Hamlet by William Shakespeare and if they have Julius Caesar instead, well watch out for your Romeo and Juliet! My kids coined "GO READ" as the response to a wrong guess.This game familiarized me with the names and works of many great authors and I went on to read most of these titles out of curiosity. A family favorite I'm here to replace my original extremely dog-eared deck today.

The "Authors" card game of my youth helped me through many a sticky situation. I have been brilliant at cocktail parties when I could recall that Longfellow wrote the "Song of Hiawatha". I have breezed through crossword puzzles with my arcane knowledge of Nathaniel Hawthorne. I am familiar with more Louisa May Alcott titles than just "Little Women". And now I am introducing my children to the classics. We just flew home to Florida from Boston, and my children (ages 9 and 10) and husband (who was an English major in college and was thrilled to have his memory jogged) played the "Authors" game while I was able to read the latest Elizabeth George. The three of them were engaged in lively (and quiet) play for more than a hour! The sign of a truly groovy game. The flight attendant took note of the game for her 10 year old son. This is a wonderful game which introduces the names and titles of books which everyone should read, and now, maybe another generation will.

Drawbacks: the art is too small to be appreciated; not enough graphic impact. The type for both the authors's names and the book titles is also much too small. I might be a baby boomer who has just started wearing reading glasses, but even my 9 year old had trouble with the unfamiliar names in the bitsy type.

Our parents bought this card game for us when we were youngsters. I am now 53 years old and a grandmother. I am so glad that we were "poor" back then and had to stay home and play this game and read books. This game is a great learning tool, it is played basically like "fish", but you start memorizing the classics and their author. Everyone should buy and play this game with their children.

My parents turned me on to authors when I was a kid and, now 56, I play it with them every time I go home. We're on our 10th set of the game but still have the original set saved at home. I leave to see them on Wednesday and they are beginning to warm up the cards as we speak. Buy the game for your family. A fine, fine, way for the whole family to spend its time. Note: there are also sets of SciFi Authors, modern authors, scientists, etc. But, the original game remains the best.

The cards are authentic but too small to hold and play. I wish they were larger, to see and to hold.

I played this game as a child with my grandparents all the time. I loved it!! I was one of the only kids in my 2nd grade class that knew what all these authors had written. It was such a fun game!

I ordered this version which I believed would have the portraits of 6 authors on the outside - but instead received the plain green box with Mark Twain on the outside. I thought I was ordering a older different version of the game. The cards when you open the deck are exactly as I remember them. I love this game - so wonderful for getting children interested in reading the classics! Unfortunately I way over paid for the deck because I was deceived by this picture.