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I judge an author's literary merit by their Scrabble score, the score their name would get if laid out on a Scrabble board. For example, Kurt Vonnegut has a Scrabble score of 26. Ayn Rand, 12. Stephaine Meyer, 25. Aldous Huxley, 28.

Mark Twain only gets 20, 5 less than Meyer, so there's discrepancies somtimes. But generally, I find it's a good starting point, andI find that it's approximately as efective as any other method.

>> No.1259163

Roger Zelazny scores a 36

I suggest you pick up The Chronicles of Amber

>> No.1259168

>>1259163
That's a good suggestion, except for one thing.

>> No.1259177

>>1259168
Do tell.

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>>1259177
The test is for 'literary merit'. Fantasy has no literary merit, so therefore authors of the genre often return false positives.

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>> No.1259268

>>1259194
Shemagh, zip-up hoodie, plastic rims, beard, gay hair... that's like, the überhipster.

Also, OP is clever and witty and I c wut he did thar and I'm so impressed and I'm not samefagging. At all.

>> No.1259279

>my name gets 9
Well, looks like I'm never being an author.

>> No.1259282

OP here. My name gets 30.

I forgot to add that some authors get double and triple word scores, based on a system that I just made up.

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>mfw Tao Lin is 8 points

>> No.1259287

Cormac McCarthy=36