{"id":340,"date":"2009-12-15T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-12-15T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:54:43","slug":"reader-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/12\/reader-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamelessly stolen from here: http:\/\/laurenleto.wordpress.com\/readers-by-author\/<\/p>\n<p>Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author<\/p>\n<p><i>by Lauren Leto<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(by the way &#8211; I respect every author on here, kind of)<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.D. Salinger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kids who don&#8217;t fit in (duh).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie Meyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv &lt;3 &lt;3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.K. Rowling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smart geeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Kerouac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Umphrey&#8217;s McGee fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Eugenides<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls who didn&#8217;t get enough drama when they were younger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Weisberger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls who can&#8217;t read. Or think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Safran Foer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jodi Picoult<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your mom when she&#8217;s at her time of the month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck Klosterman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boys who don&#8217;t read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck Palahniuk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boys who can&#8217;t read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Hitchens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People I would love to hang out with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leo Tolstoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys I want to date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys I want to sleep with. (The difference between the two Russian<br \/>\nauthors lies in the fact that I think the Underground Man is sexier<br \/>\nthan Pierre Buzukhov).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Buckley (or William F. Buckley)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who love excess verbiage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayn Rand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workaholics seeking validation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Foster Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confirmed 90&#8217;s literati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a &#8220;phase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haruki Murakami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who like good music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who can start a fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who used to sleep so heavy that they would pee their pants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ninth graders who think they&#8217;re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who like bondage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who drink scotch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who drink old fashioneds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominick Dunne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who get their class from Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who don&#8217;t use conditioner in their hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men who live in their mother&#8217;s basements. Or goth seventh graders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Crichton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doctors that went to third-tier medical schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Grisham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doctors that went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Eggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys who are in the third coolest frat of a private college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Griffin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women who give their boyfriend marriage ultimatums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Russo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People whose favorite day in elementary school was &#8220;Grandparent&#8217;s Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anais Nin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women whose favorite color is hunter green.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Faulkner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who are good at crosswords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackie Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your drunk stepmother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicholas Sparks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women who are usually constipated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Patterson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men that score a 153 on their LSAT exam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sylvia Plath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls who keep journals (too easy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Orwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theorists (too easy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aldous Huxley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harper Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that have read only one book in their life and it was To Kill<br \/>\nA Mockingbird (and it was their assigned reading in the ninth grade).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Hornby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ernest Hemingway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men who own cottages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who get ARM mortgages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men who use words like &#8216;dubious&#8217; and &#8216;tenacity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friedrich Nietzsche<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sommelieres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bret Easton Ellis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foo Fighters&#8217; fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hunter S Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cormac McCarthy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men that don&#8217;t eat cream cheese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Aquinas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Premature ejaculators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pearl S. Buck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women whose favorite president was Harry S. Truman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toni Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female high-school English professors that only have an undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Pynchon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that used to be fans of J.D. Salinger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women that liked the movie &#8220;Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood&#8221; but didn&#8217;t read the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women on the East coast that wish they were from the South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tama Janowitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cougars that went to an urban college in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alice Sebold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that liked Gilmore Girls &#8211; even in the first season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Swanwick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men that argue that Neil Gaiman is overrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Goodkind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who have never been dungeons master but still play D&amp;D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11th graders who peed their pants while watching the movie <em>It.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>People who can quote the Comic Book Guy from Simpsons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brothers Grimm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only children with Oedipal complexes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Youth group leaders that picked their nose in the 4th grade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elmore Leonard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that know how to perform a &#8220;Michigan left&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shel Silverstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls that can&#8217;t spell &#8220;leheim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who bought the first generation Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker Max<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys that haven&#8217;t convinced their girlfriends to try anal yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexis de Tocqueville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political theory and constitutional democracy majors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Clancy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that skipped school by hiding out in the gym.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Herman Hesse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that own one straw chair in their house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phillippa Gregory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women who have repressed their desire to go to Renaissance Festivals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men that can&#8217;t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don&#8217;t want to hear the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Wiggs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Older women who are surprisingly loud during sex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Krauss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls that intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Albom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that didn&#8217;t go to college but do well on crossword puzzles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stieg Larsson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls that are too frightened to go skydiving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Grafton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women that have an @aol.com email address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Grahame-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People that own a smart phone which requires a stylus to use it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Baldacci<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one. Even the police say Clancy before they&#8217;ll say Baldacci.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Pollan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The girl that just turned vegan to cover up her eating disorder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who refer to themselves as &#8220;playing devil&#8217;s advocate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>O. Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men that have names like Earl or Cliff and were really close with their paternal grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia Woolf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female high-school French teachers that have their master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamelessly stolen from here: http:\/\/laurenleto.wordpress.com\/readers-by-author\/ Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author by Lauren Leto (by the way &#8211; I respect every author on here, kind of) J.D. Salinger Kids who don&#8217;t fit in (duh). Stephanie Meyer People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv &lt;3 &lt;3. J.K. Rowling Smart geeks. 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