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ouatic_7

Oy Vey!

Jun 09, 2009 05:47

Gacked from manonlechat:
( Which fantasy writer am I? )

Comments 12

takadai_no_tora June 9 2009, 13:20:59 UTC

I scored as Ursula Le Guin, which is interesting as she was probably one of the first fantasy writers I read.

ouatic_7 June 9 2009, 23:41:26 UTC

Ooh, a high-brow, eh?

takadai_no_tora June 9 2009, 23:52:03 UTC

I don't know about that, but I love language and I think that comes off as high-brow sometimes.

rya_kelley June 9 2009, 13:37:43 UTC

I'm Lian Hearn. I'm not a big fan of fantasy, so I see why I've never heard of her.

ouatic_7 June 9 2009, 17:15:17 UTC

I'm not a big fan but I do think she should be required reading for perpetrators of fan-girl Japanese in their fics. She manages to maintain a really good sense of historical Japan (to this western barbarian) without ever using a Japanese word. For example, she never says "katana", it's always "sword"

paynesgrey June 9 2009, 13:46:33 UTC

I got Orson Scott Card. I've never read his stuff but sounds interesting!

ouatic_7 June 9 2009, 23:43:30 UTC

I read some Card back in the day. I really liked the short story, "Ender's Game" which he later expanded to a novel that was also pretty good but, as far as I was concerned, he just drove the whole thing into the ground. I haven't readm any of the Alvin Maker (I think that's the guy) stuff.

bibliofile June 10 2009, 01:43:25 UTC

So you're Mormon and openly homophobic?

He writes pretty well, but most of his books end up being messiah novels.

paynesgrey June 10 2009, 02:20:38 UTC

So you're Mormon and openly homophobic?
Um no. I read the summary to Ender's Game and thought that was interesting. I don't really care what his religion is in order to check out his books.

45cats June 9 2009, 18:57:07 UTC

I got Lian Hearn too. Never heard of her but she sounds like someone I might enjoy reading. I think it's interesting that you and I got nearly the same score for brows and cynicism. I was in the low positives for the other 2.

I'm more of the word vomit type of writer. I don't see myself as a fantasy reader even though I read so much manga and tween vamp books (the tween vamp stuff is more so I understand what Rachel is reading).

I don't think I've read Jordan either, but my uninformed opinion (why let a lack of info stop me from having an opinion-mine change so easily anyway as they evolve) of a tale "...set in a world where half the source of magic has been tainted by the Evil One, so that only women can do magic without turning insane..." is that I think it would be more interesting if only the women could do magic because they were insane.

I wonder how that would work itself out.... Interesting meme with a decent level of depth.

ouatic_7 June 9 2009, 23:45:38 UTC

I like how you think! (re the insane women mages)

I did think this quiz had some slightly more interesting options than usual.

45cats June 10 2009, 09:23:59 UTC

Those generator memes bore me. The results can be amusing but, ehhh.