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.

I think I'd draw the line at thinking the Left Behind books are the pinnacle of literature, but outside of that I'd like to think I'm open minded.