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"One evening at a remote provincial college through which I happened to be jogging on a protracted lecture tour, I suggested a little quiz—ten definitions of a reader, and from these ten the students had to choose four definitions that would combine to make a good reader. I have mislaid the list, but as far as I remember the definitions went something like this."
-Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
The reader should belong to a book club.
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The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine.
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The reader should concentrate on the social-economic angle.
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The reader should prefer a story with action and dialogue to one with none.
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The reader should have seen the book in a movie.
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The reader should be a budding author.
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The reader should have imagination.
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The reader should have memory.
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The reader should have a dictionary.
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The reader should have some artistic sense.
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