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31 January 2007

What kind of reader are you? I'm a Literate Good Citizen.
Same here - go figure.
posted by trondant 31 January | 23:56
It seems I'm a book snob.
posted by mudpuppie 01 February | 00:06
I'm also a literate good citizen.
posted by fluffy battle kitten 01 February | 00:10
Book Snob here too.
posted by arse_hat 01 February | 00:12
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

I don't know that I'd agree with that.
posted by paulsc 01 February | 00:12
Your Result: 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.
posted by Doohickie 01 February | 00:13
OMG liturature quiz haiku!

Literate Good Guy?
Dedicated to Reading?
Obsessive Book Worm?
posted by Doohickie 01 February | 00:15
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.
posted by Eideteker 01 February | 00:18
What's up with all the haikus Doohickie?
posted by phoenixc 01 February | 00:20
Many martinis
Clouding judgment... in fact,
Worse than usual
posted by Doohickie 01 February | 00:23
Vaguely Psychotic Borderline Personality.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 01 February | 00:24
LOL! In that case, I'm impressed!
posted by phoenixc 01 February | 00:26
i'm a dedicated reader. i tried changing my answers a bunch of times, but it didn't matter. no matter what i say, i'm only a dedicated reader. never will i achieve any other rank. alas.
posted by brina 01 February | 00:35
According to the quiz: Dedicated Reader--but there were too many questions where I was a square peg.
posted by brujita 01 February | 00:39
I'm a Book Snob too, but that quiz sucked.
posted by mullacc 01 February | 00:49
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

I long ago self-diagnosed as a book fetishist, but there's nothing OCD about it. I can stop any time I want to. I just don't want to right now. OK?
posted by bigblueroom 01 February | 00:52
O/C Bookworm, but like Brujita, my particulars didn't always fit with the intent of the questions.

For one thing... the "which set of books" question? I've read all the books in all those sets... except maybe "Carrie" - but I've read other Steven King so pretty much same/same.

And the Best Sellers question didn't contain my real answer, which would be "read a few pages of the text to see if it's worthwhile to pick it up". I almost never read reviews because they give way too much information away, and I would neither automatically read nor not read a book because it's popular.

I was curious about that question, so I tried some different answer combos and found that how you answer this can change whether you are a Dedicated Reader, or an O/C Bookworm - if you say "Too plebian (sic)", instead of, say, "look up the review" you can become the Bookworm, depending on how you've answered some other questions, which is just silly.

Many elements here suggest that this quiz wasn't constructed by a true book lover. Why is the "The Name of the Rose" grouped with "The DaVinci Code" et al? Because they were all made into films? Again, silly. If the intent is to find out if you only read books that become popular movies but aren't necessarily literature there are tons of others to choose from. Tsk.

We should make one of our own. :)
posted by taz 01 February | 02:20
Mmm, I'm apparently a fad reader, which I don't really agree with - there were several questions where I had to best-fit answer. I hit the back button to maybe tweak a few things, but it had trashed my answers. Oh well.
posted by TheDonF 01 February | 02:32
I'm building my bunker for the coming apocalypse out of bookshelves. full of books. what does that make me?
posted by elizard 01 February | 03:05
It makes you Thomas Pynchon! You really are Thomas Pynchon, aren't you elizard? Go ahead and admit it.
posted by taz 01 February | 03:15
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

Others' errors in grammar suxs.
posted by mischief 01 February | 03:51
Literate Good Citizen.
posted by sveskemus 01 February | 08:04
I'm an O/C Bookworm and I knew this even before I took the test!
posted by Daniel Charms 01 February | 09:40
Apparently I'm a book snob, which kind of surprised me, since I love Terry Pratchett, which I thought protected me against that kind of charge.
posted by omiewise 01 February | 10:02
Dedicated Reader
posted by govtdrone 01 February | 10:30
Dedicated Reader as well.

I wish the questions had been a lot more specific. Good quiz concept, only okay execution.
posted by Miko 01 February | 11:24
Dedicated Reader.
posted by deborah 01 February | 12:28
Yet another Literate Good Citizen here. At another point in time, though, I probably would have been a Book Snob.
posted by scody 01 February | 13:35
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
posted by safetyfork 01 February | 17:25
Yet another Literate Good Citizen. Nobody should really be surprised that a lot of people here fit into the same category, of course.
posted by dg 01 February | 17:28
I took it again today just to make sure it was right. This time it just said "Obsessive-Compulsive."
posted by Eideteker 01 February | 18:07
I'm a Literate Good Citizen also.
posted by LoriFLA 01 February | 19:27
As am I.
I agree with taz that some questions just weren't worded correctly, or contained the "right" choices.
posted by redvixen 02 February | 19:08
heh || Dang it, dodgygeezer! Why did you have to spoil my fun?!??

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