Books!

[queerbychoice]

I scored 12 out of 13. Anyone who scores better than me wins my instant admiration. Anyone? I know I have a lot of literary people reading this . . .

Oh, and the books mentioned on the quiz that I've actually read are: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka; Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig; Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll; Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans; Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie; The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe; Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen; The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James; Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy; A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens; Moby Dick, Herman Melville; Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury; The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie; and The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy.

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[q10.livejournal.com]

also 12/13, although a couple were guesswork or situations where the only thing i knew about the book was the first sentence.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. The question I missed was #11.

[q10.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's the one that got me too.

[pould.livejournal.com]

8 out of 13 - respectable

[princesswitch.livejournal.com]

Nooo!!! I just took it, and I was proud of my 11/13!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

And you should be! Sheer luck happened to give me an extra point or two that I could have easily missed.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply amused that I also got 12/13. I had an excellent exposure to literature in High School and a really good memory. Also, I had enough of a clue about styles to make a few educated guesses. However, since high school, I've read literately no fiction that is not either mystery, SF fantasy or horror or that was not written more than 400 years ago. Admittedly, Vonnegut and Borges also count as SF for me.

[bbkahuna.livejournal.com]

Also 12/13, I guessed Dune for what was the Space Odyssey line, and actually, now that I think about it, I'm near positive that the opening line of Dune mentions spice.

I'd read all of the other books aside from Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground, although I had recently read Zhiago and Invisible man oddly, so I was 50/50 there, and Dostoyevsky was fairly fatalistic in Crime and Punishment. *shrug*

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

You are good at this too!

Oh, and I don't think I ever told you, but I added you after seeing your essay that you posted in, I think, the straightsvsgays community. It was so well written I decided I needed you on my list.

[bbkahuna.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I refined that argument into more of a theological commentary and uploaded it to my site awhile back. The site is under construction, but if you are interested in seeing the formal version of it:

http://www.bbkahuna.org/leviticus.html

although, not long after, the religious tolerance site updated their section on homosexuality to an even more robust version of this, in my opinion complete with sourced quotes.

Later,
Jesse

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Only 10/13 here. But I've been out of school for nigh on 20 years---does that give me a handicap of at least +1?

[transliberation.livejournal.com]

Impressive! :)

[spee.livejournal.com]

12/13

missed the arthur c. clarke question... thought it was dune!

almost missed the marquez one too, but changed my mind at the last minute.

i like books.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

i like books too.

you and me should be friends.

[spee.livejournal.com]

yes! let's be friends!

[petitebourgeois.livejournal.com]

8 out of 13, and i am not sad about it considering i am 17 years old.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

11 out of 13. Initially, I was annoyed at my stupidity, then I remembered that my pretensions to being literary are all made up anyway. Not a bad score, considering that I've read eight-and-a-half of the 50 or so books mentioned.

(The half is The Catcher in the Rye. I still resent the time I wasted on half that book.)