What kind of reader quiz (thanks to luckycee)

[davidfcooper]

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You'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.
Book Snob
Dedicated Reader
Literate Good Citizen
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

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[spasmsproject.livejournal.com]

Hey, me too!

I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

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.
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
Literate Good Citizen
Book Snob
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

so many books, so
little time, triage requires
discrimination

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I like light entertainment, too. I don't think everything has to be great art or literature. It's okay if movies and books just entertain for a couple of hours. (as long as the people who create them know that's what they're doing, you should know your audience) When I vacation in the summer, I choose what I refer to as "beach books." Nothing heavy or too serious or that requires too much thinking, those are for other times, just something that allows me to be entertained.

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I read friends' books without waiting for reviews. My friend Tsipi Keller's novel "Jackpot" is a beach novel I enjoyed, but her sequel "Retelling" is more demanding but also more rewarding. I also recommend bethr's unpublished novel "Tantra" (ask her to email you a copy).

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

What specifically did you like about all of them?

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

All three are page turners; I enjoyed the psychological tension (all three) and the prose styles (bethr more so than Tsipi). These books are not great works of literature, but I enjoyed them all the same.

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

I can definitely get off on psychological tension and a good page turner.

Re: I'm not a book snob at all, I read all sorts of things

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

"Tantra" is a tale of sexual/romantic obsession. Ask bethr to email you the file, or email me & I'll attach it to a reply.

"Jackpot" is a story of the protagonist's psychological disintegration while on vacation at a casino resort in the Bahamas.

"Retelling" is sort of a cross between Proust and Kafka. The protagonist is coping with life after her best friend's murder. Like Proust it is a first person stream of consciousness narrative including observations of ordinary everyday phenomena, and like Kafka's "The Trial" the protagonist is a suspect in a criminal investigation. Formally there are no paragraph breaks: each chapter is a solid block of text that is both left and right justified. This conveys the protagonist's continuous train of thought.