That statement should come a zero percent surprise to anyone who has ever met me for a nanosecond. The truth of it is I love to read; always have always will.
I am currently reading the new Chuck Palahniuk novel Snuff. If you love Chuck you will think it is a good time. What's not to love about an adult film star aspiring to get it on with 600 men and discovering whether or not she ends up being the star of her own snuff film. I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
So I'm sitting in the airport today reading my book enjoying my company paid for coffee beverage; and three different people felt the need to inform me that I'm not reading the most ladylike book. Two people thought I was reading porn. The last guy thought it was weird until I told him that the guy who wrote Fight Club wrote this book as well. It caught me completely off guard. None of the people who said anything appeared to have any chromosomal defects. It was totally random.
After the third person said something to me, I looked around my gate to see what other things people were reading. Teenagers reading the vampire books, Twilight is the only one I know the name of. Soccer moms reading the weekly gossip magazines. Business men with their mysteries. The only book that I saw being read that even crossed my radar screen was some dude reading a self-help book, and even then I only though he had chutzpah for reading it out in public. At no point did I feel the need to accost any of my fellow reading brethren. I was just happy to see people with the nose buried deep inside their books.
Friday, June 27, 2008
I Like To Read..
Posted by Jules at 9:00 PM
Labels: Stuff Which I Love
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2 comments:
The interfering strangers suck - I really enjoyed "Snuff" But then I like most of his work. People just have no respect for the literate anymore.
Wow. It would never occur to me to comment on what someone else was reading - unless it was to ask them if it was any good! So, is it any good? I rented Fight Club this weekend and it was a horrible movie (believe it or not, I thought it was too whiney). I'm almost tempted to read the book to see if it's any better but I probably won't.
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