Sun 14 Oct 2007
According to this quiz, found via Sullivan, I’m a “book snob”:
| What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: 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. |
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| Literate Good Citizen |
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| Dedicated Reader |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm |
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| Fad Reader |
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| Non-Reader |
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Not really, I just read because I’m bored as hell with most things. Books are underrated as entertainment, even when concerning serious subjects — for example, the last book I finished was a freakin’ “biography” of Cocaine. How many snobs have that kind of book?
BTW: I kinda had to fudge one response, in that I don’t actually have a bookshelf; those cost more money than I have. What I did was set some storage containers that kinda look like milk crates on their sides, stacked against a wall of my room, and put books in that.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
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