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What Kind of Reader are you?
I have graduated to Dedicated Reader. I owe it all to my now overflowing TBR pile....since I got hooked on GR!
Julianne wrote: "Dedicated Reader. Didn't like question #6 (which of this group of books have you read ALL of)-I'm currently trying to catch up on the classics, but there wasn't a single group I had read all of."
I agree! I haven't read all of any one of those.
Anyway, I'm an Obsessive Compulsive Bookworm. Sounds about right :D
As it turns out, I'm "Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm" with a healthy dose of "Literate Good Citizen" and some "Dedicated Reader" thrown into the mix.
I am a Dedicated Reader My Literate Good Citizen and Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm were very close each about 50% but Dedicated Reader beat both of these quite a bit.
Literate Good Citizen I think this is me.
I am a Dedicated Reader. I love books! SIGH!!!!
Dedicated reader. So many books so little time.
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm - Almost a Dedicated Reader and Literate Good Citizen with more than expected dose of Book Snob in there. What can I say? I like a good read!
Meghan wrote: "Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm - Almost a Dedicated Reader and Literate Good Citizen with more than expected dose of Book Snob in there. What can I say? I like a good read!"Meghan - I read all your posts and you seem to read so much!!!! I dont know how you do it
Colleen wrote: "Meghan - I read all your posts and you seem to read so much!!!! I dont know how you do it"Thanks Colleen. Living in Beijing and not having a satellite dish means we have no Western tv and I rarely watch movies anymore. So that helps big time on my reading time.
But that's nothing. There are people on this site who read a book a day!! I don't know how they manage that at all.
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Dedicated Reader The only question I didn't really like was the one about "have you read every book in this series...I had read SOME, but the "series" books weren't true series. I do love a good series, unless the last few books go to crap (Jean Auel and Diana Gabbeldon come to mind, here) But I loved the whole Lonesome Dove series, The Border Trilogy, Rabbit Angstrom...etc. Read most of the Mists of Avaoln Series. Man, that's a great book (the first one, I mean) Sorry...kinda got off on the whole "series" thing.
Lyn wrote: "Hey, there is one person in one of my groups who read 5 books in one day!? How do you do that??"Seriously, how can you retain all that? My brain's a sieve though, so even if I could do it, it'd be pointless. I'd end up having to reread them all because I'd have forgotten it all!
Lyn wrote: "Hey, there is one person in one of my groups who read 5 books in one day!? How do you do that??"You know, I think that is just too much. You would never remember them or be able to savour them properly - or then again maybe Im just envious.
Melinda wrote: " Dedicated Reader The only question I didn't really like was the one about "have you read every book in this series...I had read SOME, but the "series" books weren't true series. I do love a good s..."I thought that about the Diana Gabbeldon series also.
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As for 5 books in one day. I can't believe it. I don't think I would be able to enjoy them.
5 "books" in one day? Children's books, maybe... 5 books in one week would be a gigantic stretch for me. I'd have to be on vacation with absolutely nothing else to do but read. 5 books in a month? No problem-o!
Melinda wrote: " Dedicated Reader The only question I didn't really like was the one about "have you read every book in this series...I had read SOME, but the "series" books weren't true series. I do love a good s..."I heard the second book (Gabaldon) was "meh" but the third was good. I enjoyed the first one but I'm not compelled to run out and get another one any time soon. Have too many others to focus on right now.
I'm currently reading Mists of Avalon. There are more? egads. I'm really enjoying the first one but it's going very slowly.
Mists of Avalon is by far and away the BEST of the series. I can't even remember the names of the other books...maybe The Forest House? It was so long ago! Once you get hooked into Mists, I predict that you will not be able to tear yourself away! Let me know how it goes.
The Mists of Avalon is one of my favorite books. It was originally a stand-alone book and the series got added on years later. I believe she had a co-author help her with the later books.
The Mists of Avalon is one of my favorite books. It was originally a stand-alone book and the series got added on years later. I believe she had a co-author help her with the later books. That sounds right. I didn't like the other books as much as Mists...but I read them. It was a LONG time ago! I really liked The Firebrand, which was like Mists, but it was Helen of Troy told from the viewpoint of the women. That's really more of a companion piece more than the other books.
Melinda wrote: "The Mists of Avalon is one of my favorite books. It was originally a stand-alone book and the series got added on years later. I believe she had a co-author help her with the later books. That so..."
ooohhh thanks Melinda! That does sound interesting.
Have you tried Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles? I enjoyed that series. It was the first one I had read of the Camelot mythology from the women's point of view. A little more "myth" than historical compared to Mists, but it's a lot more "realistic" than say Richard Harris' movie "Camelot". heh
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Lyn wrote: "Meghan - I really liked the first book of that series. How did you find the others? Should I finish?"I enjoyed it very much. It's been a long time since I read the whole series, so I can't really compare it to Mists. But I'd say if you liked the first one, the rest are pretty similar. I didn't find too much unevenness throughout.
I'm another Dedicated Reader. That seems the most accurate of the possible outcomes, as I am almost always reading...or reading about reading. I also tend to read several books at once; a typical pattern for me is to read a book or two of short stories, a novel, and a non-fiction or classic book at one time, although I also jump around. The most constant aspect of this particular malady is that I always have stacks of books everywhere, am always reading chapters and bits of a different book, and need a horse-cart to haul home my library booty!
Literate Good Citizen.You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you're not nerdy about it. You've read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or two.
Quite true. But i started to like classical novels after I graduated from college.
It listed me as 78% Book Snob. You like to think you're one of the literati, but actually you're just a snob who can read. You read mostly for the social credit you can get out of it.Next up was: 67% Dedicated Reader, 64% Literate Good Citizen, 62% Obsessive-Compulsive (The "Copy/Paste This" section of the page has a "Plain Text" link that makes it easy to paste.)
I think what did it for me was question #4 (When you hear about a new huge best-seller, what do you do?). I'm cheap. When I hear about a best-seller I do nothing. I may well see the movie first. ("You wait for the movie version." -- The Book Snob answer. I'm sorry, but a $1 Redbox DVD rental is cheaper than a $25 hardback.) However, if I do decide to read the book, they're a lot cheaper after the big rush to read it is over and a surplus has reached the second-hand market. (I love $1 clearance paperbacks at Half-Price Books.)
Dedicated reader,but obsessive compulsive bookworm would also be an accurate description.
dedicated reader, literate good citizen, book snob, and obsessive compulsive bookworm were all pretty close, but in that order.
Your Result: Dedicated ReaderYou 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.
I read just about anything. I am always trying new books, authors, genres etc. I try to read every day for at least an hour, would love to read for more then an hour though. Weekends are when I really get more reading in while the dishwasher is cleaning and I am waiting for my wash to get done. Now with the new fall season starting my reading time will be cut during the night on a few evenings this week, unless the shows disappoint me.
here is the text version of my results:
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.
Result Breakdown:
89% Dedicated Reader
81% Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
73% Literate Good Citizen
63% Book Snob
19% Fad Reader
0% Non-Reader
Quiz URL: http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_kind_of_...
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.
The first time I took the quiz, I got literate good citizen with dedicated reader as second. I had clicked off of the page though and when I went back, it was gone. I took it again and changed one answer and the positions were switched. Ha. Dedicated reader. The one I switched was one where there was no right answer for me. I don't just read non-fiction or novels, but both pretty much equally. I am reading two non-fiction and two novels right now. Switching to novels swung me into dedicated which is slightly annoying. Aren't non-fiction readers dedicated too?? Fun quiz though.
dedicated, but i had to go back and change one answer cuz it was a toss up, and this is the result.....same thing, but not as much of a snob, or fad reader....
I was classified as a "Literate Good Citizen" with "Dedicated Reader" a close second. "Obsessive Compulsive Bookworm" and "Book Snob" were nearly tied for third.
I was a Dedicated reader, with Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm a very close 2nd.Sounds about right!
I'm another Dedicated Reader. That is what I want to be until I die with a book in my hand.
What Kind of Reader Are You?My 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.
Result Breakdown:
83% Dedicated Reader
75% Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
72% Literate Good Citizen
67% Book Snob
18% Fad Reader
0% Non-Reader
Shirley wrote: "I'm another Dedicated Reader. That is what I want to be until I die with a book in my hand."
Agreed!
I've managed to turn into a Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm since I took the test in 2009 with Dedicated Reader now a close second (was the other way around rpeviously), and I blame GR for unleaching the inner OCB (but I still love it though)!
Sam wrote: "I've managed to turn into a Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm since I took the test in 2009 with Dedicated Reader now a close second (was the other way around rpeviously), and I blame GR for unleaching..."LOL - love that, Sam! I should go take it again as well. Although maybe I don't want to know. :)
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive BookwormYou'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.
Literate Good Citizen - The dedicated reader was almost full and the Book Snob was the next one down.
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I got Dedicated Reader I love to read a lot :D
Your Result: Dedicated ReaderYou 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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Yeah. Pretty much.
I am a 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.
Yea! That sounds like me!