What Book Are You?

/ Tracy Abell

Okay, I usually avoid these quizzes but this one appealed to me and not just because I ended up with this:


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.

When I was fifteen, my parents let me skip school one day to wait in line for Bob Dylan tickets.  He was touring for the first time in years and it was a huge deal.  I’d requested permission to camp out but the best they could do (which was still pretty cool) was let me get in line at 5:30 in the morning.  My best friend, S., and I got to the Dane County Coliseum and were amazed by the many tents and the many, many bedraggled people who’d been waiting in line for several days.  Bottles, cans, paper bags, and sleeping bodies were scattered about.  Among all that general debris was a copy of WATERSHIP DOWN.  It didn’t seem to belong to anyone so I picked it up. 

After hours of anxiously waiting and hoping, S. and I got tickets just minutes before they sold out (we felt bad for but were also grateful to the “disoriented” folks who hadn’t made it back into line).  Our excitement was temporarily dampened because our tickets were stamped “Limited Vision” and were for seats behind the stage but then we decided to just be ECSTATIC.  And when the time came, Mr. Zimmerman didn’t let us down.  He turned and played much of the night to his fans seated behind him, giving us nearly front-row seats.  The show was phenomenal.

Well, somewhere in that timeline I read and fell in love with my newly adopted copy of WATERSHIP DOWN.  And I guess after that maybe I did a lot of talking about talking rabbits because S. and other friends started calling me Bigwig (which they continued doing throughout high school).

My ticket stub is in my scrapbook.

That copy of WATERSHIP DOWN is on my bookshelf.

And S.?  He’s in my heart.

  

20 thoughts on “What Book Are You?”

    • Hey Christy! Nice to see you here.
      I wonder what would’ve happened if we’d chosen “armadillo” rather than “rabbit”? Is there a talking armadillo book?
      Glad you like the Dylan story. It was nice reliving those memories.

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  3. Great story!! I’m trying to remember if ’78 was one of the years I saw Dylan in concert. It’s so long ago, all the concert memories are merging together. šŸ˜‰

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    • It’s funny but my stub doesn’t have the year on it. I verified that via my concert t-shirt which I still have but can no longer wear. Oops.
      I was amazed to discover a website with playlists from all those shows. There are Dylan fanatics and then there are DYLAN FANATICS!!

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  4. Great story!! I’m trying to remember if ’78 was one of the years I saw Dylan in concert. It’s so long ago, all the concert memories are merging together. šŸ˜‰

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  5. Hey Christy! Nice to see you here.
    I wonder what would’ve happened if we’d chosen “armadillo” rather than “rabbit”? Is there a talking armadillo book?
    Glad you like the Dylan story. It was nice reliving those memories.

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  6. Hey Christy! Nice to see you here.

    I wonder what would’ve happened if we’d chosen “armadillo” rather than “rabbit”? Is there a talking armadillo book?

    Glad you like the Dylan story. It was nice reliving those memories.

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  7. It’s funny but my stub doesn’t have the year on it. I verified that via my concert t-shirt which I still have but can no longer wear. Oops.
    I was amazed to discover a website with playlists from all those shows. There are Dylan fanatics and then there are DYLAN FANATICS!!

    Like

  8. It’s funny but my stub doesn’t have the year on it. I verified that via my concert t-shirt which I still have but can no longer wear. Oops.

    I was amazed to discover a website with playlists from all those shows. There are Dylan fanatics and then there are DYLAN FANATICS!!

    Like

    • Isn’t it fun? Zebu took it over and over, changing his answers to see what he’d get. He seemed fine with most except LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA and LOLITA.
      I bet whoever came up with these book summaries would write a killer query letter!

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  13. Isn’t it fun? Zebu took it over and over, changing his answers to see what he’d get. He seemed fine with most except LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA and LOLITA.
    I bet whoever came up with these book summaries would write a killer query letter!

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  14. Isn’t it fun? Zebu took it over and over, changing his answers to see what he’d get. He seemed fine with most except LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA and LOLITA.

    I bet whoever came up with these book summaries would write a killer query letter!

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