The Sheila Variations

You're Confessions!
by St. Augustine
You're a sinner, you're a saint, you do not feel ashamed. Well, you might feel a little ashamed of your past, but it did such a good job of teaching you what not to do. Now you've become a devout Christian and have spent more time ruminating on the world to come rather than worldly pleasures. Your realizations and ability to change will bring reverence upon you despite your hedonistic transgressions. Florida will honor you most in the end.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Sheila, you crack me up.

The following description is NOT me at all, by the way.

You're Compassion Fatigue!
by Susan Moeller
You used to care, but now it's just getting too difficult. You cared about the plight of people in lands near and far, but now the media has bombarded you with images of suffering to the point that you just don't have the energy to go on. You've become cold and heartless, as though you'd lived in New York City for a year or so. But you stand as a serious example to all others that they should turn off their TV sets and start caring again.

patrick - bwahahahahahaha

So, I'm sitting her at my computer working and I think, "Oh, a quiz." I'm all, "I wonder what book I'll get." Then - Bam!

Maybe I am Compassion Fatigue.

I'm 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Although I don't necessarily agree with the description of me that it gave, it's kind of eerie that I'm one of my most favorite books...

Clayton - I have the same weird feeling with my book!

I'm I, Robot, which I love, but it said I'm cold. I'm not cold.

Oh, nonsense. "Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can."

For the record, I'm a virgin. Good call, Blue Pyramid!

Well, mine is right on the money. I am a brilliant vulgar Greek folk hero. No, really. I really am.

Mine is right on.

My friend just took the quiz, and she's 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', one of *her* favorites...how does it know???

I am a brilliant vulgar Greek folk hero. No, really. I really am.

Or is that a Geek folk hero?

Oh, of course. I figured that went without saying.

I took this a year or two ago and I was Alice In Wonderland. I didn't take it again now because I wouldn't want to wind up being anything else. :-)

Can I get in on freak out, too?! I just took the quiz and I am my favorite book. I took a course to study it. Bizarre.

You're Watership Down!

by Richard Adams

Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're
actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their
assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they
build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd
be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.

I'm a little embarrassed because I've never read this book. Maybe because I still believe I drove my rabbit Hopskotch to suicide when I was 7. So .... shhhh .... I NEVER talk about wabbits. Talking or ... otherwise.

i'm "how to talk to a liberal but only if you really have to" by ann coulter. shoot.

actually i was the fellowship of the ring. which makes me quite bored with myself.

Hmmm.. not sure what to make of this.. the "an individualist of the highest order" I can relate to though.. and I do believe in ferries!

You're Siddhartha!
by Hermann Hesse
You simply don't know what to believe, but you're willing to try anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you've spent some time in every camp. But you still don't have any idea what camp you belong in. This makes you an individualist of the highest order, but also really lonely. It's time to chill out under a tree. And realize that at least you believe in ferries.

You're A People's History of the United States!

by Howard Zinn

After years of listening to other peoples' lies, you decided you've
had enough. Now you're out to tell it like it is, with all the gory details and nothing
left out. Instead of respecting leaders, you want to know what the common people have to
offer. But this revolution still has a long way to go, and you're not against making a
little profit while you wait. Honesty is your best policy.

Posted it at my blog also. I don't disrespect our leaders, but I do likes my history.

peteb - this post and all the responses is making me feel like doing one of my "guess the first or last lines of books" game!

You're A Theory of Justice!
by John Rawls

In the beginning, you lived in a town. The town had many problems! Rather than moving, you decided to come up with the idea for the best town ever. Going all the way back to the original position, you created the idea for the best town ever! Lo and behold, the best town ever looked almost identical to the town you lived in. You decided to stay in the town. Now you resent people mistaking your refined thought experiments for "the wall of stupidity" in high school debate rounds.

I don't even know what that means. Why couldn't I be Watership Down? I LOVED Watership Down!

Lisa - I have now read thru that blurb twice, and I still don't understand a word.

Sheila,

Congratulations! I'm envious.

I'm Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Meh.

A quiz, Sheila?!! Yeah!! it's been ages since we had a quiz.

*under a tree*

Bryan - you say "meh" to that absolutely astounding book? It's one of my favorites - up there with Catch 22 and Catcher in the Rye. Now I'M jealous!!

Well, I guess I'm too much of an avant-garde fan. Flannery O'Connor once said that she wouldn't read any fiction that looked weird. My tastes are kind of the reverse. Nevertheless, I can definitely grant to O'Brien a certain power. I was hoping I'd turn out to be something like "Malone Dies" or "Ada" or "Gravity's Rainbow". :)

I got Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

You're The Catcher in the Rye!
by J.D. Salinger
You are surrounded by phonies, and boy are you sick of them! In an ongoing struggle to search for a land without phonies, you end up running away from everything, from school to consequences. In this process, you reveal that many people in your life have suffered torments and all you really want to do is catch them as they fall. Perhaps using a baseball mitt. Your biggest fans are infamous psychotics.

What does it say about me that I think even J.D. Salinger is a phony?