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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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DavidS - Jun 02, 2011 1:06:01 pm PDT #15042 of 28286

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

One day, I will find a collected works of Moore. Shambleau is the only one of her shorts I've read and she's so interesting.

I sent Tep the collection of Northwest Smith stories. They're pretty great. Sort of like Han Solo plus alien drugs and freaky sex.

Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:23:39 pm PDT #15043 of 28286

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I also failed it and it suggested that I might be a girl. There are times I can tell; I suspected Tiptree back in the day and knew for sure with "The Women Men Don't See," because, well, men really don't see those women.

Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:23:54 pm PDT #15044 of 28286

Because books.

I got five out of ten on that quiz, and that was mostly pure guessing.

I had a sort of mixed media feminist lit class with a professor I loved at Hunter. We watched Camille and one of the early Joan of Arc movies, and read Emma and Antony and Cleopatra. There was also a book of essays which is out of print now -- it's packed up somewhere.

JZ - Jun 02, 2011 1:27:18 pm PDT #15045 of 28286

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I got 3 out of 10. I think I reverse-reverse psychologied myself out of a few correct answers, where something read as so thoroughly male that I figured the test-makers were trying to make us second-guess ourselves and think we were outsmarting them by choosing "female," only to have it turn out it actually was written by a male-type person. And then it turned out it actually was written by a woman.

Or something. Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.

Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:29:56 pm PDT #15046 of 28286

Because books.

I did that on the last question, JZ.

P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2011 1:32:24 pm PDT #15047 of 28286

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.

Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 1:33:49 pm PDT #15048 of 28286

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I guessed blindly, didn't even try to think them through, as I recognized none of them. And because I have so frequently had my writing taken for male that I figured there was no point in trying to guess.

sumi - Jun 02, 2011 1:42:21 pm PDT #15049 of 28286

Art Crawl!!!

I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.

Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 1:47:16 pm PDT #15050 of 28286

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.

I got 60% and it said the same thing. I think this is just one big scam to get us to read more books by men.

megan walker - Jun 02, 2011 1:52:13 pm PDT #15051 of 28286

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I got 7 out of 10 and it did not tell me I need to read more books by men.

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