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[coraa]

Frivolous quiz time:

EDIT: Also, essay question: What, to you, is the difference between 'autobiography' and 'memoir'? Is there a difference?

[Poll #1251481]

(If you want to discuss your categorization of either of the series listed above, please do! But use the following spoiler code to obscure any spoilers: <span style="color: #333333; background-color: #333333">Spoilers here.</span> This will display the spoilers as grey text on a grey background that you must highlight to read, like so.)

Comments

[willworker.livejournal.com]

I'd classify the first depending on how you use it-- do you actually mostly use it as a cookbook, or read it when you're not cooking mostly?

Steve

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist is probably a great example of "Science Fantasy," however for reasons that i can't fully explain, even to myself, i hate that term, so i didn't pick it :)

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

Wait a second, why did you make "Steampunk" an option for "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and not for "Fullmetal Alchemist"? :) It's perhaps not literally steampunk, but it has a lot of the same feel.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Because I find FMA's classification as Steampunk to be so obvious as to be undebateable, and have already tagged it that. ;)

(Basically, the same reason I didn't ask whether the Pern books should be tagged with 'dragons' :D )

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

Hee, okay, that makes sense :)

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

A Series of Unfortunate Events the books or the movie?

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

The books. She's got, like, 9 of them or something.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that.

(There are Unlucky Thirteen, actually.)

In my head

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

In my head, an autobiography is where people write about their lives while still doing stuff. A memoir is either where they write about their lives after they're done doing other stuff, or where they go through all their old journals and revise them into a book.

Re: In my head

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

(In my head an LJBook is a memoir. Even if the author is like 16.)

[clairebaxter.livejournal.com]

I think an autobiography is a complete story of someone's life (at least up until the time it was written), whereas a memoir would be a specific story from someone's life, maybe about the years they lived in China, or their childhood, say.