I'd read two of the books but didn't recognize the paragraphs.
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'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 2:44:42 pm PDT #15055 of 28283
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kate P. - Jun 02, 2011 5:06:39 pm PDT #15056 of 28283
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 28283
"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 28283
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 28283
"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 28283
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 28283
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 28283
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
4 out of 10
-t - Jun 02, 2011 6:08:30 pm PDT #15063 of 28283
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.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 6:15:20 pm PDT #15064 of 28283
Because books.
I wish I could, -t! I mean, I want it RIGHT NOW. And I have no Kindle, and no bookstore is open now. So I'm sadfaced and counting the minutes till I can get to the bookstore tomorrow.
Jon and Arya and Dany are the biggest draws for me.