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April 10, 2008
My friends keep sending me this article from the March 30 New York Times
They want to know what I am thinking over this one. Does what a man reads affect the way you think of him as a person if you yourself are a reader?
Well, I am thinking plenty.
Look, if you are a guy and you don’t read at all: I am talking even the Sport’s Section of USA Today, a woman who reads really will not want to have anything to do with you. For some men this seems to be ok. They like a woman who seems a bit vague.
I would think that this would get boring. I want nothing to do with it.
As for those who do read, what you read DOES make a difference. Sorry. But it does. If I see a man who has a bunch of touchy feely self help books or anything with Mars and Venus in the title on the coffee table I am running like the wind.
However, there is nothing worse than the Pretentious Reader. We have all bumped into this guy. He will read nothing that is not sanctioned by The New York Review of Books. God forbid that anything should be enjoyable or fun. This man loves the dry, dusty and boring. You know that you have been trapped by him at a cocktail party pontificating on the latest rave review. Chances are he has not even read the book. Just the review. And you are praying while he lectures that your glass is bottomless so you can make it through.
I myself like an across the board reader. Someone who will enjoy the latest W.E.B Griffin book, but, at the same time, he doesn’t cringe at the idea of picking up the latest McCullough history, or rereading a classic..
This is how I tend to read and maybe that is what the point is. Like always looks for like. In love and in reading.
Posted by JenniferD at April 10, 2008 02:59 PM
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I think this article is a bit over the top. It probably applies more to book snobs than book lovers. I was an English major when I met my husband. He was not a big reader. When he does read it is Grisham, WEB Griffin, other military junk. Still, he did read, sometimes. That is the important part to me. My dad is a horrible speller and barely gets by with math, but he loves to read. Mostly Westerns. He reads the type of books that 'educated' raeders would scoff at. Yet, he reads. I have always admired that. Maybe that is why it does not matter to me what a person reads, but that they do. Of course, there is the whole subject of graphic novels. I won't go into that. I'll just say that it's a goog thing they weren't popular when I was dating.
Posted by: Lauri M, YA librarian, Coventry, CT at April 17, 2008 04:01 PM