Nerd Test

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll be wishing I had less sex, smoked less weed, drank less beer, read less and instead played more computer games, did more role-playing and watched more dodgy sci-fi :-P

hmmmm, I wish, I wish I had drank less beer? Nononono, memorable were those times in the 'Biergarten', I wish I smoked less weed? No, or, yes, or, maybe, but I never smoked really much weed, or yet I did, but I dunno, I dunno anymore, was fifteen or so, had a bad period, so I think that smoking weed was inevitable.
Read less? NO! I wish I had some more rest, some more ease and patience to pick up some more books, I still have a bookshelf to read. :lol: play more games that'd be my death, I think. Watched more dodgy sci-fi? Well, yes, maybe, but at home, I didn't have cable telly, still Star Trek was on it every week :-)
Did more Role Playing games? Hm, yes I'd like to play that a bit more I think, I actually never played it.

[Cyberus]

I was being sarcastic Eyso!

In truth though, I wish I *had* smoked less weed - then I would have done better at university, I wish I *had* drunk less beer - then I wouldn't have got into so much debt at university. Other than that - MORE sex and MORE books! :lol: But hey, I'm only 25....!

edit: Someday I'll have to join you for a beer Eyso, beer seems so appealing again, the way you talk about it!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

In truth though, I wish I *had* smoked less weed - then I would have done better at university,

yes, I wish I had smoked less weed high(:lol:)school, but sometimes I wonder if it would have made any difference..... :-(

 I wish I *had* drunk less beer - then I wouldn't have got into so much debt at university.

ehm, okay, but... I can't forget many a time like that *sigh*

Other than that - MORE sex and MORE books! :lol: But hey, I'm only 25....!

Well, about that first thing, I dunno, probably, but I am not really suitable for that I think. About that second part, couldn't agree more,  Btw, Cyberus, WHAT kind of books? :-) (I can reccomend Gormenghast, actually)

[voxel]

don't work on IBrowse :-(
the destiny awaits button does nothing :bigcry:

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
edit: Someday I'll have to join you for a beer Eyso, beer seems so appealing again, the way you talk about it!

I'd like that :-)
But just an easy drink, not on purpose binge drinking or so.

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

 I wish I *had* drunk less beer - then I wouldn't have got into so much debt at university.

ehm, okay, but... I can't forget many a time like that *sigh*

I also have many good memories. But it was so expensive, and if you do something too much, it becomes less enjoyable.

Other than that - MORE sex and MORE books! :lol: But hey, I'm only 25....!

Well, about that first thing, I dunno, probably, but I am not really suitable for that I think.
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Nonsense! I don't think anyone is 'suitable' especially.

About that second part, couldn't agree more,  Btw, Cyberus, WHAT kind of books? :-) (I can reccomend Gormenghast, actually)

Well, I own over 500 non-reference books, and I think I have probably read only half of them! I have a big stack beside my bed, and a big list in my head of books I want to read.

My favourite writers are George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Heller (if only he had written more) but I would like to read more Tennessee Williams, Joseph Conrad and a lot of the American 'beat' writers [I have only read two Kerouac novels - he *is* overrated, but still good despite that].

I really like what I have read of 19th C French writers, particularly Guy de Maupassant (A breath of fresh air from the stuffy Victorian writers of the time here in Britain!) and Voltaire's 'Candide' is a masterpiece IMO (although not 19th C!). Kafka bored me when I read him as a teenager, but I think he deserves a revisit - I read Metamorphosis recently and liked that. Graham Greene is another that I like, but I have only read some of his shorter stories. I thought that James Joyce was overrated drivel, but again, perhaps I should look again.

Gormenghast trilogy is something I've been meaning to read - I've heard good things about it. I haven't ever been too keen on fantasy, despite the best efforts of some of my friends. I even have a signed copy of David Gemmel's first book.

I go through phases with authors/scenes whereby I read everything I can by an author before moving into a different phase. My first major phase was a Dostoevsky one, then Orwell, then back to Russians again with Chekov and Gogol, and now I'm in the middle of a French phase. I'm rereading Candide, this time in French and also Camus' L'etranger. I tried reading l'age du raison in French, but it was FAR too difficult! Reading Sartre in English is bad enough!

The problem I have is that I read more than one book at a time, as I'm not always in the mood to read a particular book. So I'll have three or four books on the go, and some of them will take months to finish. I have been reading 'The Devils' by Dostoevsky since November 2002!!! I tend to 'dip into' books, which is why I like short stories (I LOVE Sherlock Holmes stories, as they are perfect bedtime length) and poetry.

Sorry, you didn't ask for a rant, but you did ask what kind of books!
By the way, EVERYONE should read Dostoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' - a real life-changing experience IMHO!

[Mike_Amiga]

Thanks I do enjoy the odd silly test.

23.80952380952381% nerd blood flows through my veins, apparently.

Rounding up that's only 24%, PHEW! I'm just under a quarter nerd. :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Well, first thing to say, I'm impressed! I still have to read all these books..
I just read history and fiction, not yet books with ideas alike these.

Gormenghast trilogy is something I've been meaning to read - I've heard good things about it. I haven't ever been too keen on fantasy, despite the best efforts of some of my friends. I even have a signed copy of David Gemmel's first book.

David Gemmel? Gormenghast is written by Mervyn Peake I thought. Gormenghast isn't really fantasy, rather surrealism, everything is physically possible, no monsters, no magic. To me, the books are unlike anything I've ever read. The style of writing is sometimes chaotic and fast (in terms of happenings), then it is slowly describing every detail of the weird environment, it describes with many details the weird (yet recognisable :-)) characters.

and btw, I'll keep this one in mind:

By the way, EVERYONE should read Dostoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground'

[adz]

30.952380952380952% nerd blood flows through your veins.

Noooooooo!!!!!!

[whabang]

28 point something...
Has anyone managed to score 42 blank? :-D

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Gormenghast trilogy is something I've been meaning to read - I've heard good things about it. I haven't ever been too keen on fantasy, despite the best efforts of some of my friends. I even have a signed copy of David Gemmel's first book.

David Gemmel? Gormenghast is written by Mervyn Peake I thought. Gormenghast isn't really fantasy, rather surrealism, everything is physically possible, no monsters, no magic. To me, the books are unlike anything I've ever read. The style of writing is sometimes chaotic and fast (in terms of happenings), then it is slowly describing every detail of the weird environment, it describes with many details the weird (yet recognisable :-)) characters.

Yes it is written by Mervyn Peake, I was just lumping it together with fantasy - which is probably a little hasty. I remember reading a passage from Titus Groan for my English GCSE exam (standard exam we take at 16), and I liked what I read then.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I dunno how old I was when I read Gormenghast (20 or so, probably)... But sure I remember it was kinda hard to read. The last book of the trilogy I never completed reading it. It wasn't translated in Dutch yet and the style of writing in English was really uncommon and hard to read, according to me.
I continuously re-read parts that I thought I understand but later in the book appeared to be different.

though, heavy stuff for a 16 year old...

[Methuselas]

42.857142857142854% nerd blood flows through your veins.


I embrace my geekdom.  :lol:



What bothers me most is the fact that I got the D&D ones right.....


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Can you imagine if they  actually classified a BREED of nerds? 'Damn, there goes that {bleep} half-nerd again. Why can't he be FULL nerd, like the rest of us??!?' :-o  :-o  :-o