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.