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Friday 9 March 2012

Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author

Yes I know stereotyping is frowned upon but I found this really interesting post on StumbleUpon and I couldn't help but post it here. I've made a few alterations to the original list which can be found here.

  • J.D. Salinger
  • Kids who don’t fit in.
  • Stephenie Meyer
  • People within the age group of 12-18 who lost faith in human love too early and now put their trust in shiny vampires
  • J.K. Rowling
  • People who detest their school.
  • Jodi Picoult
  • Your mom when she’s at her time of the month.
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Guys I want to date.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Guys I want to sleep with.
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Confirmed 90’s literati.
  • Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters)
  • Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a “phase”.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People who can start a fire.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • People who used to sleep so heavy that they would pee their pants.
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
  • Mark Twain
  • Proud bastards
  • Anne Rice
  • People who appreciate real vampires
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Men who live in their mother’s basements.
  • John Grisham
  • Doctors who went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic.
  • Dan Brown
  • People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.
  • Nicholas Sparks
  • Women who are usually constipated.
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Suicidal girls who keep journals
  • George Orwell
  • Conspiracy theorists
  • Harper Lee
  • People who have read only one book in their life and it was To Kill A Mockingbird (and it was their assigned reading in the ninth grade).
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Tough army men with a soft spot for stirring prose.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People who get adjustable-rate mortgages and party hard.
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men who use words like ‘dubious’ and ‘tenacity’.
  • Lewis Carroll
  • People who move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene.
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.
  • Stieg Larsson
  • Girls who are too frightened to go skydiving.
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Girls who like talking about death with their suicidal friends.
  • Salman Rushdie
  • People who google images of Padma Lakshmi late at night. (True story!)
  • James Joyce
  • People who do not like John Cusack movies.
  • Oscar Wilde
  • People who can’t resist anything. See also: people who claim they’re going to change but never do!
  • Franz Kafka
  • People with daddy issues.
Any other author you want to see in the list?

4 comments:

  1. Well then according to this : "I detest school, I'm going through some lesbian phase, live in my mom' basement, get lost in supermarkets. will be moving to thailand and I'm afriad of sky diving"

    Nice to meet you

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    1. LOL! Good to know you. let me tell you something about myself now:

      I have daddy issues,i dont fit in, i promise to change but i don't, i party hard, i am suicidal and keep a journal. I used to get lost in supermarkets as a kid. I make out with girls, am a proud bastard and i respect real vampires! :)

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  2. Wow. hahaha you sure do know how to make one feel good about themselves love.

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    1. care to tell us something about yourself molls? ;p

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