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christina_reads

Literary FMLs

May 14, 2010 13:23

Today I was wasting time on Sporcle and came across this quiz: it gives you the plot summaries of famous works of literature -- in FML form -- and you have to guess the titles. It's only fair for me to tell you that the website is incredibly addictive. You've been warned.

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birdgirl78 May 14 2010, 18:04:19 UTC

I love that quiz!
And I love Sporcle.
I did the quiz yesterday or Wednesday, and I got all but 2. Cracked up at some of them.
How are you, m'dear?

christina_reads May 14 2010, 19:53:57 UTC

Yay, good for you! :) And I'm doing well, thanks for asking. I'm going on vacation next week, so I'm just trying to hang on until then! How are you doing?

birdgirl78 May 15 2010, 12:38:18 UTC

Ooooh, vacation! I hope you have a spectacular time!

I'm ok...lots of lives crashing down around me, but I swear I didn't have anything to do with it! In other words, I'm worried about all my friends, but I'm alright.

*huggles*

christina_reads May 15 2010, 23:26:52 UTC

Well, I'm only going home to visit my family, but I hope to have a good time. :) I hope things work out with your friends!

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iamfitz May 15 2010, 01:03:53 UTC

Officially got 14/16, but I didn't put "the" in front of "rime of the ancient mariner," so it wasn't counted, so I'm counting it as 15/16. As for the one I missed, who knows about hobbits? I don't know anything about hobbits. Except that they bore me.

fitz (only person in the Western World who hasn't read or seen LoTR)

PS. What's FML?

christina_reads May 15 2010, 03:30:35 UTC

Haha, I think it's valid to count the Coleridge. Can't believe you're hating on the hobbits, though - LOTR is one of my favorite books! But, to each his own. :)

FML stands for f*** my life: http://www.fmylife.com/. It's pretty amusing.

iamfitz May 16 2010, 07:28:40 UTC

Oh, I don't hate hobbits. I think they're delicious.

I've picked up the book any number of times, and every time it's the same--my eyes just skate across the words. I used to think that it was just because I didn't really care for British writing, but over the past few years I've found I really do like British writing...just not Tolkien. There's just no traction there for me.

I caught part of the one of the films on TV, but it didn't hold my interest at all. Guess I'm just not hobbit friendly.

christina_reads May 16 2010, 13:17:19 UTC

Well, we all have our own tastes -- mine is reading about the hobbits, and apparently yours is eating them!

birdgirl_1107 May 15 2010, 13:40:13 UTC

Great quiz! Quite a little boost to my literary ego for a Saturday morning. Missed the Aeneid because I couldn't remember the darn title (uh, duh ...) and Crime and Punishment because what do I know for Russian? I do know plenty about hobbits though. ;)

christina_reads May 15 2010, 23:28:09 UTC

I think I missed A Clockwork Orange...was that one of the answers? I can't remember. Anyway, I'd never read it, so I felt justified in missing that one!