Kudos to Scott for pointing the way to this little quiz: What kind of reader are you?
| What Kind of Reader Are You?
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. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm |
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| Literate Good Citizen |
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| Book Snob |
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| Fad Reader |
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| Non-Reader |
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After taking it, I must say, the little red bars are dead on. I’m extremely obsessive compulsive about my books and my reading; I read constantly (if I’m somewhere with no books or periodicals, I’ll read anything, including the backs of household cleaners or things like toothpaste); and, I have to admit… I generally look on fad books with disdain. I’ll concede that some of them end up being pretty good. However, most books that land on the bestseller list are sub-par at best. The Da Vinci Code comes to mind. It was on the best-seller list at amazon.com for what seemed like an eternity. When I finally got around to reading it, I liked it alright, but I didn’t find it amazing or anything. Certainly it wasn’t good enough to warrant being on the top-seller list for so long (and at #1 for so long, at that!) At this point I can’t remember much about it at all except the main plot-line. Then again, if people read what I do, a bunch of language books and books on ancient civilizations would be on the top-seller list, so…
What kind of reader are you?
Guess what: I got the same results
That doesn’t surprise me at all.
I came out as a “good literate citizen”. However, I did do the quiz after a night down the pub and I’m just off to bed to continue with “The Kraken Wakes” by John Wyndham until Morpheus grabs me in his arms. I would disagree with the ‘at school’ element of my reading assessment; I’m just getting round over 3 decades on to reading all the things which school deterred me from picking up.
Thanks for finding something else I would have otherwise missed Josh
Always a pleasure, Woodsy.
Funny you mention being deterred from reading things. I’ve been putting off reading War and Peace by Tolstoy for a while now because people always talked about it like it was some unbearably painful read. After reading about it at amazon, I’m really looking forward to starting it soon!