Are you a bibliophile?

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Take the quiz!
I am a " second degree knight of Things Book" -

1. Oxford English Dictionary - all 20 volumes = 10 points
Oxford English Dictionary - small print with spyglass - 5 points
I have neither - though they are on my wish list
2. Boswell's Life of Johnson - 2 points
nope
3. Complete Works of Shakespeare - 2 points
several copies! 2
4. Gibbon's Decline & Fall - 2 points
yep - 2 more points
5. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - 5 points
in English and in French - is that 5 points or ten?
6. Catholic Catechism - 1 point
The first and the second translations - 1 point?
7. Companion to the Catholic Catechism - 3 points
Yep - 3 points
8. At least one work by both Augustine and Aquinas - 2 points
the whole Summa - 5 points
Yep - both - 5 points?
9. Catena Aureau - 5 points
nope
10. Three bible versions - 3 points
only 3? I have the Jerusalem, Douay Rheims, NIV, King James, New American, and the Knox New Testament (thanks to dylan)
11. At least two major philosophers - 2 points
At least (2)
12. A set of encyclopedias - 2 points
In Hardcover - Brittanica 3 with the Great Books of the Western World - 2 points
13. at least one art history book and poetry anthology - 1 point
but of course! 1 point
29 points

Totals:
30-45 - first degree knight of the bibliomanic order
18-29 - second degree knight of Things Book
6-17 - the downtown library serves most of my needs
0-5 - I have nice telephone books

4 Comments

I have nice telephone books. :)

I'm a second Degree knight of things book, too. I missed the higher order because my OED is the two-volume eye-strainer, not the twenty volumes.

I think you need to give yourself 7 points for question 8, so wouldn't that bring you up a level?

I have Boswell, Gibbon, the Catechism, Augustine, Aquinas, the Summa, three bibles, and 2 philosophers. Maybe a F+W encyclopedia; I forget. Does Sister Wendy's Grand Tour count as an art history book? I've read the Boswell but not the Gibbon.

Can I get some points for the following? I used to have an illicit copy of the OED CD. "Used to" because I destroyed it out of conscience (or scrupulosity, take your pick).

Anyway, TSO's list is highly ideosyncratic: the Catena Aurea is pretty obscure.

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