| 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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| Literate Good Citizen |
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| What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz |
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First off, don’t forget to check out my newest podcast and column at RH Reality Check. This week seems like it’s mostly going to be a downer, politics-wise, with the S-CHIP crap and various other signs that we are a nation run by evil people. But the podcast is actually mostly good news—the Planned Parenthood victory, various pushbacks against anti-contraception forces. The column is about the standard issue arguments against universal health care. I wrote it before the argument for health care was, “But anyone who’s not sleeping on the street shouldn’t get health care!”, but I suspect we’ll be back to normal soon and the column is evergreen.
The other order of business is voting on a book club selection. Two books of the many I have queued up to read that strike me as likely to generate some interesting and varied discussion are Look Both Ways by Jennifer Baumgardner, a book on her experiences as a bisexual and some of the politicized meaning of that. The other is The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi. There’s other books I was considering, but I think that the advantage of these two is that they both have ideas in them that are controversial and should generate some lively discussion. So, which of the two would you rather book club?
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The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi.
Ditto — Faludi for the win!
Faludi…I just read it myself, (ordered it after Traister’s review in Salon came up.)
i haven’t read the Faludi book but i have read “look both ways” and don’t really recommend it. I guess the ideas are interesting but i found the writing sytle disjointed/discontinuous at best and so it was hard to even pick up the main ideas of what she was trying to say.
I got dedicated reader as well.
My favorite book is being made into a movie however, World War Z by Max Brooks is being made by Brad Pitt’s production company.
As for the holding a theme party thing, maybe if they started making Discworld movies.
I vote for Faludi, too. The book sounds fascinating.
Upon reading that quiz, I suddenly realized that I may be the only person on Earth who actually used Cliffs Notes for their intended purpose — namely, as a companion to the difficult book that you’re reading, not a substitute. If I was having a lot of trouble with the language in the book (for some reason, Austen gives me fits even though I love her), I would read a chapter of the book, and then read the Cliffs Notes of that chapter to make sure I hadn’t missed anything.
I vote Faludi, since I have almost finished it, and have limited time to read for fun because of school
I would vote for Faludi, I’m a third of the way in, and it’s outstanding so far.
Mnemosyne, you’re not the only one! That’s what I wanted to select as an answer to the Cliff Note question as well, but it wasn’t an option. I scored Dedicated Reader as well.
I got obsessive compulsive reader. But I think that is just code for “grad student.”
I liked the Baumgardner interview in the last Bitch, but I’d be way more likely to actually read the Faludi.
I’m a literate good citizen.
BURN! I got book snob. That seems like the worst one to get too. Oh well, I guess I am just a jerk.
Hmm - it tagged me only as a dedicated reader, when I literally get paid to read.
(It’s a tough job, but I’m too busy giggling to notice)
I’m an obsessive compulsive bookworm. Which is entirely true. But the question about what’s on my bookshelves is problematic, because anything that I read that is actually good gets packed in a box and shipped to my poor, peace corps volunteer brother halfway around the world, which means that my bookshelf consists almost entirely of old law school textbooks, crap sci fi, chick lit, and a whole bunch of travel guides.
Brenda - I got obsessive-compulsive reader, and I haven’t been in school in more than a decade.
Of course, I could open a bookstore out of my house, and I’m currently making income reading linguistic textbooks onto tape, so that might have something to do with it.
One more vote for Faludi.
Jovan, I got the same thing.
Faludi, for sure.
Meatier than Baumgardner any day.
I got “Literate Good Citizen.” I’m satisfied with that.
I have not participated in the book club before, but I might this time. I vote for Faludi.
I wouldn’t mind Faludi myself. I have yet to read one of her books (though I did enjoy the NYT column that was reference here…)
If the proprietor would like to try something a little different…Why not give Adam Clark’s Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together a spin?
http://www.amazon.com/Being-There-Putting-Brain-Together/dp/0262531569/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10/105-3975774-2746007?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192051795&sr=8-10
It’s one of those sneaky books that says quite a bit more than the actual subject matter about AI, robots, mind, body, and consciousness.
Faludi
Obsessive-compulsive bookworm.
Faludi, based on her op-ed in the Times, which was taken from her book. Till I’d read her piece, I’d never made the connection between the quintisentially America fear of death and our experience killng and being killed by Native Americans.
Also, Backlash beautifully dissected the mainstream media, and I suspect this one will do the same.
I got the same as Christina. “Other people’s grammatical errors make you insane.” What a burn! But it sounds about right.
I’m only a literate good citizen. Crap.
Am I the only one that couldn’t answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I’d read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics.
I had the same problem as witless chum to the question of books that I’d read. I’d read from 2 of the books to half of them on each of the lists… I think that should have been a possible answer on that one…
And it was Don Quijote in the original spanish that sent me to Cliff Notes–not an official one but an online summary/translation. Does it count when you’re using it to understand a completely different language??
Am I the only one that couldn’t answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I’d read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics.
I almost had that problem, but I obsessively read Stephen King when I was between ages 10 and 12, so I got one of them. The problem was that on all of the other lists, there would be one book I never read (I was never forced to read Moby Dick in school, for instance, but I read all the others).
And hey, I read Don Quixote in the original spanish as well, but I just kept an english version around for stuff that I didn’t understand. Cliff Notes were forbidden in my house.
I just finished the 848 dense pages of “The Crimson Petal and the White”. It’s a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women’s rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can’t do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You’ll thank me.
I just finished the 848 dense pages of “The Crimson Petal and the White”. It’s a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women’s rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can’t do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You’ll thank me.