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I ran across a quiz that identifies what sort of book reader you are. My own results are below the fold and I hope that you share yours with me too, along with your opinion of the questions they used;
There was one question that bothered me. It was question six; Which set of books have you read ALL of? It turns out that I have read all the books listed except one in all of the answers provided.
| What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane. | |
| Dedicated Reader | |
| Literate Good Citizen | |
| Book Snob | |
| Non-Reader | |
| Fad Reader | |
| What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz | |
Comments
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | January 28, 2007 12:42 PM
Dedicated Reader
You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.
Very true.
Posted by: parrotslave | January 28, 2007 1:01 PM
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm of course.
Posted by: coturnix | January 28, 2007 1:12 PM
I'm reading Unfinished Business, Telling Lies, Explosives Engineering, and a long-titled book on forensics, and somehow I'm a book snob? I read mostly to learn, and if the entertainment doesn't teach me anything, it's worthless to me.
Posted by: Roy | January 28, 2007 2:09 PM
Funny, 3 years into college, I found myself homeless and bankrupt, so I gave it up. No Ph.D. for me. And it's been 10 years since I was so immature as to be made 'insane' by other people's grammatical mistakes - though I still offer corrections from time to time, provided I can be sure (a) I'm 'right' by some useful standard, and (b) the correction will make a significant difference in the clarity of what they've written (this means I don't bother correcting errors that are made all the time, unless a case can still be made for the audience not understanding the error).
Posted by: llewelly | January 28, 2007 4:41 PM
I'm a Literate Good Citizen. Sorry, can't stay. Must go read.
Posted by: pablo | January 28, 2007 4:50 PM
Um so, Roy, any plans we ought to know about?
You're lucky the poll isn't hooked up to the DHS! ;-)
Posted by: David Harmon | January 28, 2007 7:10 PM
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
Posted by: bev | January 28, 2007 7:20 PM
Literate Good Citizen
But too many questions had no sensible answer for me.
Posted by: divalent | January 28, 2007 8:42 PM
I'm also a "Dedicated Reader..." I peruse everything from science (physics), forensics, history, biography, nonfiction, contemporary literature, the odd classic (lots of classics in college, since I majored in English), poetry, mysteries, the better childre's lit/juvenelia, even a bit of sc-fi and the odd bestseller.
And, Roy, yeah, if you can't enjoy entertainment for entertainment's sake, that DOES make you a bit of a book snob. Sorry. :)
Posted by: Jennifer Ouellette | January 29, 2007 7:04 AM
Does anyone else find it odd that this categorization is based almost entirely on BOOKS? I read a lot, but a lot of it is journals (both literary like the Georgia Review and scientific like Science and Nature, magazines like the New Yorker and the Nation, as well as two newspapers daily. I counted up the list, and I subscribe to 23 magazines, journals, and newspapers, and I usually read them all. None of that counts for the person(s) who made up the quiz. Books are only part of the spectrum of reading, but if you read that other stuff, you end up being classified as a "book snob". Bogus, for sure.
Posted by: Dave | January 30, 2007 8:25 AM
Posted by: llewelly | January 30, 2007 8:48 AM