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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.