Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Are you WHO you read?

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    On the blog "Let Us Read and Let us Dance," I discovered this hilarious list by Lauren Leto called "Readers by Authors: Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author" in which she does just that. Below are some of the ones I thought were the funniest and most on target (even if this reader felt herself called out once or twice...).

    J.D. Salinger
    Kids who don’t fit in (duh).

    Stephenie Meyer
    People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3>

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger.

    Lauren Weisberger
    Girls who can’t read. Or think.

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.

    Ayn Rand
    Workaholics seeking validation.

    David Foster Wallace

    Confirmed 90’s literati.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    People who can start a fire.

    Charles Dickens
    Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.

    Mark Twain
    Liars.

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    People who drink scotch.

    Joseph Conrad
    People who drink old fashioneds.

    Dominick Dunne
    People who get their class from Vanity Fair.

    Anne Rice
    People who don’t use conditioner in their hair.

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Men who live in their mother’s basements. Or goth seventh graders.

    Michael Crichton
    Doctors who went to third-tier medical schools.

    Dan Brown
    People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.

    Dave Eggers
    Guys who are in the third coolest frat of a private college.

    Emily Giffin
    Women who give their boyfriend marriage ultimatums.

    Anais Nin
    Librarians.

    William Faulkner
    People who are good at crosswords.

    Jackie Collins
    Your drunk stepmother.

    Nicholas Sparks
    Women who are usually constipated.

    James Patterson
    Men who score a 153 on their LSAT exam.

    Sylvia Plath
    Girls who keep journals (too easy).

    George Orwell
    Conspiracy theorists (too easy).

    Aldous Huxley

    People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.

    Nick Hornby

    Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.

    Hunter S Thompson
    That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.

    Toni Morrison
    Female high-school English professors who only have an undergraduate degree.

    Thomas Pynchon
    People who used to be fans of J.D. Salinger.

    Elizabeth Gilbert
    Women who liked the movie “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” but didn’t read the book.

    Rebecca Wells
    Women on the East coast who wish they were from the South.

    Alice Sebold

    People who liked Gilmore Girls – even in the first season.

    Brothers Grimm

    Only children with Oedipal complexes.

    Nicole Krauss
    Girls who intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.

    Virginia Woolf

    Female high-school French teachers who have their master’s degree.

    John Irving

    People whose parents are divorced.

    James Joyce

    People who do not like John Cusack movies.

    Truman Capote
    People who would never dream of owning anything that could be classified as a “knick-knack”.

    For the full list go: here.
    Source URL: https://jimhensons.blogspot.com/2010/01/are-you-who-you-read.html
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