VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
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."
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
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.
askye - Jun 02, 2011 5:57:57 pm PDT #15060 of 28282
Thrive to spite them
I failed the test, I guessed Sparks as woman. And also I thought the stupid guy who inspired the test was a female writer.
Tonight I discovered that Community College of Vermont offers a class " The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film". I am going to take that class.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 6:01:33 pm PDT #15061 of 28282
Because books.
I finished Game of Thrones and now I'm desperate to read the next one.