So that's this semester's theme: Everything Old is New Again. I'm reading many books I've already read before, many books I haven't, but are on historical things -- I'm in the middle of Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers and Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, which as we speak is being made into a movie.
Yeah, I'm excited, too. Crime, Tommy guns, the 1930s, and Christian Bale. But I digress.
So I took this "What Kind of Reader are You?" Quiz (as seen and promoted on Jane Austen Today, which I subscribe to.) and this is what I got:
| 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. | |
| Literate Good Citizen | |
| Dedicated Reader | |
| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm | |
| Fad Reader | |
| Non-Reader | |
| What Kind of Reader Are You? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
I have to say, I'm a little...leery of this result. I don't think I read for social credit (although, granted, being the person at parties who always has random things to say is a social function, albeit not a very loved one.) But I want to know now -- Who gets social credit for reading?
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Maybe social credit like, for example: my ways of reading professor says that class has a main function of being a good source of cocktail party conversation. "Well, in his inaugural speech, President Obama used the rhetorical tool of anaphora but not necessarily lytotes..." Stuff like that? I dunno, I'm just an English major, I'm not supposed to know about books. :)
ReplyDeleteSocial credit? Surely that's a compliment! You're enriching the lives of those around you with pearls of wisdom and genius - besides, it is a far, far better thing to be the one with the knowledge! (speaking as a self-diagnosed book-snob)
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I...cheated at the test, to find out how hard it was to be an obsessive-compulsive bookworm. The distinction between snob and bookworm is by one question. I'm glad your semester is interesting. My new lectures are on the ever-enjoyable topic of 'Marxism in Mary Shelley' - a different viewpoint from mine, but oh well. I love the sound of True French Short Bastards. And I thought Toad in the Hole sounded odd...