It's just....I'm not sure I could date someone who considered The DaVinci Code to be *good* writing. I mean, I'm ashamed to say that, but it's true.

This is true for me too. One bf thought just that...and read the lowest of brow fantasy as if it were of War and Peace significance.

Now, I'm a fan of trashy movies, magazines and other types of entertainment. I think the qualifying ability is knowing the difference.

It makes me feel like a character in a Woody Allen movie to confess that I might just dump someone for loving the "wrong" book.

(This is after last night, when I was curled up in bed reading Bruce Wayne: Murderer? and told The Boy that I was reading it because I wanted something "comforting and familar" to fall asleep to. I think he laughed for a full minute.)

(So we can all see that I don't have a leg to stand on. Not even a false leg. Not even a TABLE leg.)

I can find a morsel of enjoyment out of just about everything I read. And I'm all over the map with what I'll read. Has words? Will read, pretty much. Unless it is Cormac McCarthy. I tried, I really did. I just couldn't get past the first 2 or so pages.

No, wait, I guess I should say that, if I was already unhappy with somebody, I might factor the rotten reading taste in. Not that I could think somebody was lovely and sexy but he reads junk, so, hasta.(unless we're talking "Turner Diaries" or something. Racists are deal-breakers) I do sometimes use things like that to decide who to date, though.

It's like I don't even know you anymore.

Non-fiction is boring! I want explosions! Magic! British detectives!

Non-fiction is boring! I want explosions! Magic! British detectives!

Let's just be friends.

My sort of ex was horrified that I read the Stephanie Plum books. He felt slightly better when I explained I buy them from the bargain bin. :)

Would you break up with someone who read something to lowbrow?

Sometimes reading preferences reveal a deep philosphical difference and they've been a canary in a coal mine for me.

I read a lot and majored in English, but even so, there are loads of books that I haven't actually read. I think I'd be pretty angry if someone judged me unworthy.

Breaking up with someone because they've never heard of Pushkin? Ugh. I do not truck with that kind of elitism.

Unless you happen to be a Pushkin scholar and have told your significant other all about Pushkin, only to have your SO turn around and say, "Who is this Pushkin fellow?" Then I think perhaps that there are grounds.

I suppose if I found out my lover thought The Celestine Prophecy was the best book ever written I might consider breaking it off with them.

Would you break up with someone who read something too lowbrow?

Only if they never ever stopped talking about it.