She ain't movin'. Serenity's not movin'.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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."


Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 1:47:16 pm PDT #15050 of 28282
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 28282
"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 28282
"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 28282
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 28282
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 28282
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 28282
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.


Kat - Jun 02, 2011 5:14:35 pm PDT #15057 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I had 7 out of 10. Nicholas Sparks DEFINITELY writes like a woman.


Typo Boy - Jun 02, 2011 5:17:30 pm PDT #15058 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I remember P.Anderson explaining when the rumors first came out that Tiptree could not be a woman. Her style and knowledge of the way men thought made it inconceivable.


Liese S. - Jun 02, 2011 5:52:57 pm PDT #15059 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I failed the test. I got 4. I also have a Naipaul book that I hate.