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8/10, but that is really largely luck if you ask me. Legolas Send a noteboard - 03/06/2011 07:45:07 PM
Anyway. Here is a test. I'd be interested to hear what you get, as a semi-scientific sampling of the reading public (please let me know if you get something right because you recognise the passage).

And while I didn't recognize any of the passages (even from Atonement, the one book I'd read), the mention of "Amina" somehow made me think of Salman Rushdie, so maybe that one shouldn't count.

Edit: well, okay, I've read The Notebook too. :P
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Sex and writing Camilla - 03/06/2011 03:45:43 PM 1696 Views
This test simply reinforced a completely different opinion of mine. Tom - 03/06/2011 04:07:26 PM 1128 Views
Literature reflects society. Welcome to the age of text messaging *NM* Dark Knight - 03/06/2011 06:08:53 PM 535 Views
Agreed. *NM* Tom - 03/06/2011 10:14:05 PM 492 Views
I really disliked those excerpts as well beetnemesis - 04/06/2011 02:10:36 AM 1067 Views
5/10. Exactly as chance would predict. *NM* Tim - 22/06/2011 11:27:25 AM 518 Views
6/10 temeraire - 03/06/2011 04:34:19 PM 1063 Views
9/10: Not bad, but you're no Sir Vidia Foxhead - 03/06/2011 04:56:08 PM 1245 Views
6/10! *NM* Dark Knight - 03/06/2011 06:06:09 PM 522 Views
7/10. Rebekah - 03/06/2011 07:15:44 PM 1151 Views
6/10. Would be 7/10 but I thought #10 was a trick question. *NM* Macharius - 03/06/2011 07:17:51 PM 504 Views
8/10, but that is really largely luck if you ask me. Legolas - 03/06/2011 07:45:07 PM 1226 Views
Oh, gender roles. You so pervasive. Do MTF authors write like men or women? IT IS A MYSTERY *NM* Ghavrel - 03/06/2011 09:30:13 PM 495 Views
7/10 nossy - 03/06/2011 09:52:40 PM 1092 Views
5/10 I was guessing on all of them though. j-whitt987 - 03/06/2011 11:19:09 PM 1112 Views
8/10 Praziquantel - 04/06/2011 12:54:02 AM 1100 Views
Guessed all the way through. 2/10 James - 04/06/2011 04:06:08 AM 1020 Views
9/10, but that doesn't mean a thing... fionwe1987 - 04/06/2011 08:06:00 AM 1168 Views
I also got 4 out of 10 Fred Gaidin - 04/06/2011 02:17:50 PM 1141 Views
At the same time? Vodalus - 06/06/2011 04:54:09 PM 1104 Views
7/10 *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 22/06/2011 08:49:07 PM 549 Views
These results don't prove Naipaul wrong Corwin - 30/06/2011 07:58:39 PM 1234 Views
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