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[apocalypsos]

Take this test and find out! How many of these apply to you?

I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up.

I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day.

I read rapidly, often 'gulping' chapters.

I have sometimes read early in the morning or before work.

I have hidden books in different places to sneak a chapter without being seen.

Sometimes I avoid friends or family obligations in order to read novels.

Sometimes I re-write film or television dialog as the characters speak.

I am unable to enjoy myself with others unless there is a book nearby.

At a party, I will often slip off unnoticed to read.

Reading has made me seek haunts and companions which I would otherwise avoid.

I have neglected personal hygiene or household chores until I have finished a novel.

I have spent money meant for necessities on books instead.

I have attempted to check out more library books than permitted.

Most of my friends are heavy fiction readers.

I have sometimes passed out from a night of heavy reading.

I have suffered 'blackouts' or memory loss from a bout of reading.

I have wept, become angry or irrational because of something I read. -- *remembers the day I ran around the apartment yelling "FUCK!" at the top of my lungs because of something I read and dies giggling*

I have sometimes wished I did not read so much.

Sometimes I think my reading is out of control.

If you answered 'yes' to four or more of these questions, you may be a literature abuser. Affirmative responses to seven or more indicates a serious problem.

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Okay, so if one could ... uh, theoretically answer yes to all of these, what exactly would that mean? Theoretically. (I'm also curious if having an author's signature tattooed on my back shows I've gone beyond the point of no return. Uh, theoretically.)

From this link



EDIT: Here's one they left out ... I was voted Class Bookworm in my high school yearbook. How about the rest of you?

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I, uh, you know, theoretically, was wondering the same thing about being able to say yes to all of those. You know. Just...on the off chance that someone, certainly not myself, could.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, I answered "yes" to all but the last two. Which means I'm a bibliomaniac, but in denial...

[moshez.livejournal.com]

I counted ~13 :)
And I feel fine about myself...

[calliopes_pen]

*Starts laughing.*

I answered yes to everything, and so did my mom. I love reading, and I admit it! I don't have a problem, though. ;)

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

in elementary school, kids would sit in front of me and time how long it took me to A)finish a page and B) notice someone was there.

my name is alia, and i am a book-a-holic. and i have no problems with that.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I remember someone doing that to me once in a study hall. She was watching me read and I didn't even know it, and she just blurted out, "Do you know how many pages you just read in a minute?"

Also, everybody used to be amazed at how I'd manage to navigate the halls between classes when it was always wall-to-wall with students and I barely ever looked up from my book while I walked. And I was inevitably one of the first people to get to class. It helps to be tiny and quick. :)

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

see, i still cant walk and read. im more likely to be so absorbed in the story that i stop dead in the middle of the hallway. and then i get cussed at, which i dont usually hear, or run into, which causes me to cuss others for making me lose my place.

so dont walk and read. you could lose your place. damnit.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what author's signature?

And...um...I DON'T WANT TO GO TO REHAB! Although I don't wish I could read less.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I have Poe's signature on my lower back right above where the top of my jeans usually is. I was thinking about getting Shakespeare's, too, maybe higher up on my back between my shoulder blades.

[hopefulnebula]

Heh. Sounds like me...

"I have spent money meant for necessities on books instead"? Books are necesseties...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I can't remember how it went, but I once had a bookmark that had a quote that went something like, "When I get money, I buy books. When I get more money, I buy food and clothing."

Yup, sounds about right. :)

[musyc]

Desiderius Erasmus.

Had that quote on a t-shirt. ;)

[calliopes_pen]

I have spent money meant for necessities on books instead

That's definitely me, too. If given a choice between them, I would always choose books.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* i was voted most likely to be a librarian.

[akacat]

Well *I* had a nun give me detention for reading in class.

[zeelee-penguin.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You know, I have a *friend* that could, uh, probably answer all these affirmatively. Advice...?

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Check, check, check - everything, but I've never passed out due to reading, and never thought I read to much.

I would add:

I never go anywhere without a book or two in my bag/purse.
I buy a bag/purse that can fit a book or two.

[wer-bin-ich.livejournal.com]

On my 13th birthday, my mom got me a walkman and a new book. I immediately picked up the book, ready to read. My brothers took the book away and picked up the walkman. "No! No reading! Listen to music!" I took the book back and read it. ;-)

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

Er...my daughter counted my TBR pile last night...783 books.

I don't have a problem. Nuh-uh.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

My teachers had to confiscate my books before I would do any work in class - and this lasted well into high school. My second grade teacher once said that she'd never had to take a book *away* from a child before. One of the reasons I had to drop my French class Sophmore year, was because the teacher was pissed I went into her desk to reclaim a book. Well, it was a library book, and it was overdue!

I used to take the bus up to the public library in the next town, and check out bagfulls of books. One time, I hit the limit on my own library card, and had to borrow my sister's to finish the stack. I would usually have the books finished in a couple days; maybe a week, tops.

The first time I read Sabriel, I cried for almost half an hour before I could finish the book, because I thought everyone had died.

I've been known to compare reading a really good story to getting high - it makes you feel all happy and floaty, but it doesn't last and it gets harder and harder to reach, the more you do it. Pretty soon, you have to go looking for the hard stuff, ie fanfic.

I would read books in the bathtub, because I couldn't stand interrupting my reading for the time it took to get clean.

I've considered buying a laptop so I could read fanfic anywhere, any time.

Hi, I'm Telly, and I've been a literature abuser for as long as I can remember. I don't think I can be cured.

OOtP spoilers ahead. (and if you haven't read it already; you dont deserve a warning.)

[wonderlander.livejournal.com]

Yes to 16 of them. I don't have a problem *shifty eyes*.
I have wept, become angry or irrational because of something I read. -- *remembers the day I ran around the apartment yelling "FUCK!" at the top of my lungs because of something I read and dies giggling*
Dude, my friend who had already read OOtP was waiting for me to get to the part where Sirius died. She also started kicking me when I fell over laughing when he did.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Check... check... check.. oh my god, that's alarming. My answer is yes to everything except perhaps the second to last question.

I mean, I do often try to check out more library books than the 50-book limit permits. And because I'm the local librarians' pet, they always let me bypass the limit. *hoards books greedily like a hamster*

[ilanalynn.livejournal.com]

I have answered yes to all of them. I am known for carrying a book with me wherever I go. Though I was instead voted Most Likely To Develop Split Personalities in high school.

Yes to all but the final two.

[mysteri.livejournal.com]

How about, "Have you ever bought a PDA just so you could store e-books and fanfiction on it to read when out?"

[kimera.livejournal.com]

I, well, um. Yes. Except those last two.

I used to get in trouble all the time during "group reading" (when the whole class is reading the same book, and we take turns reading paragraphs out loud) because I'd skip ahead. So they're still on like page two by the time it's my turn to read, and by then I'm not paying attention because I'm totally absorbed in chapter five.

Also, years and years ago my parents bought a bookcase each for my brother and I, with adjustable shelves. At first, I just stole a shelf or two and put them on my bookcase. Three years ago I finally gave up and swiped the whole bookcase. Since then I've bought two more.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hee. That first ibit sounds like me. I remember the one year in English class, when we had a reading list of novels to choose from and everybody else was trying to get the skinny books like "The Outsiders" and "Separate Peace".

Meanwhile, realizing damn well I'd get done with the skinny ones in an afternoon, I was the only one who read "The Jungle" because it was the thickest one she had, and it was one of the few I'd never read before, and it turned out to be really interesting.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I got some behavioral notes on my report cards (I think) because I'd read ahead of the class and wouldn't be where the rest of the class was. Or sometimes, I'd even be in a different chapter of another excerpt in the same huge text book that had all the short stories and poems in it because I'd already read the short story.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Eighteen. Oh dear.

When I was twelve, I had my appendix out, was nil by mouth for almost a week and lost a ridiculous amount of weight. When I was finally allowed to go down to the hospital canteen, I did not do so. Oh no. I waited an extra day so I could finish my book uninterrupted. Man, that was a stupid thing to do.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

I was voted `Would rather have a good book than a good women' [sic].

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

What if you had a woman who loved a good book? ^_^

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Then I would wait until she finished reading it before nabbing it.

[tesria.livejournal.com]

My count's fourteen.

Does that mean a 12-step programme wouldn't work?

Not that I'd want it to. *huggles books protectively* No one takes away my books you hear?! NO ONE!!!!!

Ahem.

[gwen-louise.livejournal.com]

Um, 17?? I don't think I read too much. No, I will not admit I have a problem!! Can I ad to the list: 'You can quote large passages from books from memory'. Two entire walls in our house are covered with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. So is my bedroom floor. I have literally worked my way through most of the books in our school library. And, ah, does anyone else just sit down with a book 'for a minute or two' and then wonder where the three hours went?? Yup, definitely addicted.