I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
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
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.
Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:53:28 pm PDT #15052 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:54:14 pm PDT #15053 of 28286
Because books.
I looked Naipaul up in Wiki and he seems like a real charmer, too.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2011 2:32:43 pm PDT #15054 of 28286
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I got 4 out of 10. But 2 of the 4 I had read already, so I knew the author.
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 2:44:42 pm PDT #15055 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'd read two of the books but didn't recognize the paragraphs.
Kate P. - Jun 02, 2011 5:06:39 pm PDT #15056 of 28286
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
Yeah, I did that for a bunch of them too. I hope the test results show that most people think V.S. Naipaul writes like a woman.