I got 4 out of 10. But 2 of the 4 I had read already, so I knew the author.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2011 2:32:43 pm PDT #15054 of 28370
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 2:44:42 pm PDT #15055 of 28370
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 28370
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 28370
"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 28370
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 28370
"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 28370
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 28370
Because books.
I finished Game of Thrones and now I'm desperate to read the next one.
beth b - Jun 02, 2011 6:05:46 pm PDT #15062 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
4 out of 10
-t - Jun 02, 2011 6:08:30 pm PDT #15063 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Do it! Plow through them all! Read read read!
I just downloaded the Hugo voters packet and i am strongly tempted to just fuck everything else until I have read all the SciFi.