What Your Favourite Book Says About You?

Friday, July 12, 2013, 18:39 [IST]

Even those of us with a limited literary taste have at least one favourite book. It may be a book you read when you were in the 4th grade or something that stirred your youthful passions in college days. Usually, we learn to make mature choices after becoming adults. But your favourite book remains the ones you read in your early youth when your heart was still fired up with passion and not logical thought.

You would be surprised to know that your favourite book gives away too much about you. We can infer personality traits and even certain special hidden factors about your nature by knowing your favourite book genre. For example, if you are a lover of Sherlock Holmes novels, then you love mystery and adventure. And if you love P G Wodehouse, you are happy go lucky and comedy is your book genre of choice.

The specific name of your favourite book can help us uncover much more than personality traits. It can sometimes tell us about your most secret desires. But all this analysis is purely for fun. Every book means different things to different people. You can always take the predictions that we give with a pinch of salt and a heart of laughter.

So here is what your favourite book says about you.

Things Fall Apart: Chenua Achebe

You love yams because they mean so much to the tragic hero Okonkwo. You are almost 30, you don't have 3 wives like him and nothing has even meant so much to you as those grubby yams meant to Okonkwo. Sniff..Sniff

Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand

One thing is for sure, you do not like paying taxes. Another thing is that you must be supporting the Republican party. Are you actually a closet 'fundamentalist' too?

Twilight: Stephenie Meyer

You are that frigid girl in high school whom nobody notices. And your only hope that turning into a vampire or consorting with one might make your boring life interesting.

Catcher In The Rye: J D Salinger

Well many people would name this book as their favourite and so we better tread with caution. You are probably a recluse or want to turn into one. After all, the whole world is 'phony'!

Ulysses: James Joyce

You are plain and simple bluffing. Honestly, did you finish reading Ulysses or are just trying to appear intellectual? Wasn't there are record that very few people actually read this book cover to cover?

Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov

Ya, you will say you are mesmerised by the seductive language and lyrical imagery. But if truth be told, you are a closet paedophile and I will keep my kids away from you!

Harry Potter: J K Rowling

Hey, I know its cute but you have a serious urgency to grow up. You are clearly someone who loves to stay in the world of fantasies.

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

Well here is the truth honey; playing hard to get is not going to make you land up with Mr. Darcy. So just settle for a decent enough loser like the rest of your sorority sisters.

The Sun Also Rises: Earnest Hemingway

Well, you love sayings and quoting Hemingway. And in this book, almost every line is quotable so you mesmorised it.

Lord Of The Rings: J K R Tolkein

You pay great attention to detail. You can turn the story of you going out to have coffee into a 100 page dissertation that includes the license number of the coffee parlour.

1984: George Orwell

If your favourite book is '1984' then your favourite television show is most probably 'Big Brother' or 'Big Boss'! Someone is watching...

Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte

You have a darker side of you for sure. And that dark side includes dark fantasies about a dark and dreadful man. Everyone has a Healthcliff and most of us are smart enough not to marry our Healthcliffs.