It's Not You, It's Your Books...

HA! I remember Henry Rollins saying in his spoken word performance that while he is attracted to women who actually read he was always afraid to ask what they read....for fear that he's hear them say "Oh, Harry Potter books" HAAA! I was glad to know someone else out there thought Harry was painful reading!
 
>HA! I remember Henry Rollins saying in his spoken word
>performance that while he is attracted to women who actually
>read he was always afraid to ask what they read....for fear
>that he's hear them say "Oh, Harry Potter books" HAAA! I
>was glad to know someone else out there thought Harry was
>painful reading!

*Just popping in to say* Mmm . . . Henry Rollins! Drool, drool. :)
 
That was funny! My DH is such a non-reader. I'm glad I was more concerned about how his ass looked in jeans when I met him, than what he read.

Every time I recommend a book to him, his reply is: "Does it have pictures?" :)
 
Great article! I do have to admit that I love my fair share of 'low brow' literature though. Anne Rice anyone?. Anyone? :)

Carolyn
 
Okay, I admit I can be a bit of a book snob, but man, I hope I'm not THAT bad:p

And for the record, I loved the Harry Potter books. I guess maybe I won't be dating Henry Rollins or Beavs anytime soon. ;)
 
>That was funny! My DH is such a non-reader. I'm glad I was
>more concerned about how his ass looked in jeans when I met
>him, than what he read.
>
>Every time I recommend a book to him, his reply is: "Does it
>have pictures?" :)

LOL Gail! DH was a sort-of reader when I met him. He'd read anything that had pictures of men in orange hats holding chainsaws in front of large trees. I called it his hetero man-porn. :D He reads a lot more now that we're married. In fact I have turned him on to Annie Proulx and Christopher Hitchens. He loves that I am a http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b39/Batgirl_1969/nerd.gif

I love a great, mind-stretching read but I think reading for the sheer fun of the story is OK too! I loved the Harry Potters, and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is a hoot! Only thing I just can't do are romance novels, and anything by John Grisham. Yee gods, that man MUST have had a relative in publishing.

Sparrow


Even after all this time the earth never says to the sun, "you owe me." Look what happens with a love like that.

It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz
 
Sparrow - ITA on John Grisham. He describes every woman simply by her hair colour and breast size. I guess that appeals to some;-)

My SO loves to read but he is a science fiction geek and likes war history non-fiction too, particularly WWI and WWII. I finally got him to read the HP series and he really liked them.
 
>Great article! I do have to admit that I love my fair share
>of 'low brow' literature though. Anne Rice anyone?. Anyone?
>:)
>
>Carolyn
>
>

Carolyn - You're not alone. I'll admit to reading at least 3 of hers. ;)
 
> Anne Rice anyone?. Anyone?
>

Now there's a women who could on and on for pages ad nauseum. I got through "Interview" and liked it OK, but threw the towel in with "Vampire Lestat".

My 'low brow' confession...I liked "The Da Vinci Code"...

*slinks sheepishly out of thread*
 
>> Anne Rice anyone?. Anyone?
>>
>
>Now there's a women who could on and on for pages ad nauseum.
>I got through "Interview" and liked it OK, but threw the towel
>in with "Vampire Lestat".
>
>My 'low brow' confession...I liked "The Da Vinci Code"...
>
>*slinks sheepishly out of thread*

You know, I liked Da Vinci ok, but I really liked "Angels & Demons" for some reason. Maybe because it wasn't all that controversial. I wish they would make that one into a movie. Have you read that one?
 
I haven't read that one, but I've had several friends say the same as you, that they like "Angels & Demons" better.
 
Ugh to Da Vinci Code! I had to read it for a book club and was furious at the time I wasted. Sorry to those who liked it!
 
My DH recommended "Angels and Demons" actually, for a time there I read anything I could get my hands on about the Knights Templar, Mary Magdelene, the Priory of Sion or is it Zion? Very fascinating stuff indeed. And as a child I had a morbid fascination with the Holocaust and read every book I could find concerning that awful time in history.

Shelley, no wonder DH loves John Grisham...;)

I loved Anne Rice, but I too threw in the towel after the Lestat book.
I actually powered through Atlas Shrugged, and it was my intention to read the Fountainhead, never have got to that one.
I had never touched anything by Hemingway or Fitzgerald believe it or not, so last year made it my mission to read as many as I could. The Great Gatsby and A Moveable Feast were my favorites.

I am not a book snob at all, I love to read anything, especially autobiographies as I am a bit of a voyeur I think.;) One of the most amusing books I have read in a long time was "Bitter is the New Black'..hilarious!:7 I just ordered a book I heard about called "Confessions of a Sexpert"..about this guy who explores sexuality in all sorts of different cultures...sounds juicy doesn't it?
And I am not above picking up the latest edition of "Star" either.:p
 
>Ugh to Da Vinci Code! I had to read it for a book club and
>was furious at the time I wasted. Sorry to those who liked
>it!
>

Shells - Was it the subject matter or the actual writing? I thought Angels and Demons was wayyyy better as far as the subject matter and the actual story. If you didn't like the writing style though, you probably wouldn't like the other book either.
 
HA! I read none of that stuff. I've always preferred non fiction, particularly military history related titles. I know I should bust out the classics but there are so many things I want to know about and non fiction satisfies the curiosity. I have always loved The Great Gatsby though....
 
Liann - it was the writing style, mostly. I think the subject matter could have been intriguing, but I just couldn't get past all his hackneyed characters and cliches.

Beavs - as long as you don't look down on us fiction reading types... ;)
 
Oh, Shelley....ITA!!! I had to read it for a book club, too. (WARNING: for those who loved it, don't read any further!!!!)

How that book became so popular is BEYOND me!!!! The worst writing ever!!! Those cliff-hanger chapters made me want to throttle him! When people in the club were claiming they stayed up all night reading it because it was so fascinating , my friend replied, quite dryly, "I could put it down." Believe me, so could I...the problem was, I picked it up again. I kept thinking, "It just has to get better..." Oh, well, I'll never get those hours back.

I was suckered into another book that got glowing reviews and everyone I knew loved: "The Lovely Bones." I actually DID throw that one across the room about 3/4 through. It started out with such promise, and then that Patrick Swayze-popping-into-Whoopie Goldberg's-body "Ghost" moment came and I lost it!!!!!
 
>Ugh to Da Vinci Code! I had to read it for a book club and
>was furious at the time I wasted. Sorry to those who liked
>it!
>

Shelley, TOTALLY agree. I felt physically assaulted by the bad writing.

Even after all this time the earth never says to the sun, "you owe me." Look what happens with a love like that.

It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz
 
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