Jul 01 2010
Who’s your favorite author? (Also, let’s wildly stereotype you!)
If you’re into ridiculously petty literary squabbles, you might get a kick out of this amusing list of reader stereotypes based on favorite authors. Just don’t take it seriously. I thought these two were funny.
James Patterson fans: Men who bomb the LSAT.
Stephenie Meyer fans: “People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3 <3.” [But they’ll still complain when you misspell Stephenie!]
Here are some of my own.
Aldous Huxley fans: People that have FAR too much fun to survive to 40. From his masterpiece’s Wikipedia entry: “…They turn on each other, in a frenzy of beating and chanting that devolves into a mass orgy of [drugs] and sex.” Make that 35.
Tom Clancy fans: Guys that like guns but have never actually carried one.
James Joyce fans: Guys that like James Joyce books but have never actually read one.
Franz Kafka fans: I think they’re the people that run airports. It’s the only possible explanation.
H.G. Wells fans: If they ever had a time machine, their first act would be erasing George Lucas from history. (Could you wait until Return of the Jedi? Thanks).
Charles Dickens fans: Readers that think a book is twice as enjoyable if it’s twice as long.
Lorraine Hansberry fans: Jeopardy writers. I’ll take 1970s Tony-Winning Adaptations for $2000, Alex!
