Would you break up with someone who read something too lowbrow?
Only if they never ever stopped talking about it.
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2008 9:51:30 am PDT #8384 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sean K - Mar 31, 2008 9:51:32 am PDT #8385 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
meara - Mar 31, 2008 9:52:27 am PDT #8386 of 10001
Would you break up with someone who read something to lowbrow?
Considering the trashy romances and scifi I read, I don't think I'd have a leg to stand on. I'd just be thrilled if I was dating someone who liked to read!!
flea - Mar 31, 2008 9:53:16 am PDT #8387 of 10001
information libertarian
mr. flea probably reads two books a year. Plus a lot of Scientific Americans and some New Yorkers (and, of course, tons of kiddie books.)
I pretty much read nonfiction and mysteries and romance, and have done for maybe 10 years. I have to read Suite Francaise for book club for next month, and I'm kind of afraid.
Kat - Mar 31, 2008 9:53:21 am PDT #8388 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Steph, I totally get where you are coming from. It's not the consumption of the lowbrow, but thinking that it's quality would be the issue.
(says the girl who loves to read Jodi Picoult).
beekaytee - Mar 31, 2008 9:54:04 am PDT #8389 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
The Celestine Prophecy
What am amazing phenomenon of popularity vs. horrible writing evah.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 9:55:05 am PDT #8390 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Not for that alone, but those choices can be telling enough of other issues that they should not be ignored.
So very much this.
I think the problem I have is that I think of books as short hand for other aspects of one's personality.
And this.
I also think that if you are a person who believes either of these things, you will probably not get along (in a long-term relationship) with someone who does not, because you're going to be approaching the media you consume in such vastly different ways as to make conversation difficult.
beth b - Mar 31, 2008 9:55:06 am PDT #8391 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Reading is important, and I dated two people that didn't read. One was dyslexic - but he wanted to be an actor - so he still got the word and story thing. The second - well, we had some major differences anyway ( He didn't believe in abortion, but you should have seen him goggle at the idea of being a single father, which was one alternative I offered)
As I was typing I remembered a third. he was a party boy/bad boy - so that was different.
Sue - Mar 31, 2008 9:56:03 am PDT #8392 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Steph, I totally get where you are coming from. It's not the consumption of the lowbrow, but thinking that it's quality would be the issue.
I can totally see that.
Of course, I've been reading so little lately, I feel functionally illiterate.
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 9:56:53 am PDT #8393 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Steph, I totally get where you are coming from. It's not the consumption of the lowbrow, but thinking that it's quality would be the issue.
(says the girl who loves to read Jodi Picoult).
Mostly, though, I'd have to break up with someone who hated to read, and proclaimed such. I don't expect my BF to be a wordnerd like me, but I suppose I do expect my BF to understand *why* I'm such a wordnerd, and respect that.
Although the Dan Brown thing might just kill me.
(I *have* re-considered my friendship with someone who did say, verbatim, "I *hate* reading! It takes up too much time I could be doing FUN stuff!" And she was in her 20s, not 4.)