And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously "nailed them" and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives.
I would suggest that this "quiz" thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing "predictions," whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed "seeing." THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love. ________________________________ From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? At the bottom of the main page, Facebook posts are listed and many have pasted in the book description associated with the book the quiz picked for them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected, the quiz author's "take" on the novels in question gives us insight into how he programmed the expert system that generated the results. This would seem to be a classic example, his "take" on "Dracula" not really being what many other people's "take" would be. ________________________________ From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : If you can still find it in your browsers -- Michael or Anartaxius -- what's the quiz author's description of "Dracula" in your results? It would be interesting to me to find out, because he was the one programming the results of each choice in the quiz and mapping them to a possible "life novel." But at the same time, *his* view or or interpretation of the novels in question might be a factor. I certainly wouldn't necessarily describe LOTR the way he did it in my results. ________________________________ From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: ....The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) ________________________________ From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. ________________________________ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: "An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal!" But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
