someone lends you a book to read? Someone lent me their copy of Rant by Chuck P. and sent my reading list into a frenzy. Don't give me pop-lit books to read! I have a list!
someone lends you a book to read? Someone lent me their copy of Rant by Chuck P. and sent my reading list into a frenzy. Don't give me pop-lit books to read! I have a list!
What I hate is when friends who don't really read much besides garbage, tell me I should really read this book they are reading, or have read.. invariably it always turns out to be complete trash, so I don't read most of it, but that seems to bother some people, makes me a snob or something.. I suppose, I shouldn't tell friends that the books they like and recommend to me are garbage.. but I just can't help myself
Yeah sometimes, especially when "non readers" lend you books because you are a "reader":
"Oh, I have this book you must read, I couldn't put it down, and I know you read a lot, it is called The Da Vinci Code, it is fantastic, I will lend you his other one called Angels and Demons, it is not as good but it is still really good, I finished that in five days, but I finished the other one is two and a half days, it’s the best thing I have read …”
That sounds really snobby, but still. Anyway, I had to read The Da Vinci Code for University so eventually they won in the end.
Edit: I wrote this in reply to the original post, but island, you got there before me with the same thought.
EEEEW, yeah!!! Pop-lit, as it has already been said, is a nightmare, especially when I try to read it and can't get into it and force myself to finish it while my mind keeps wandering off to other books, CLASSICAL books, that are ever so much better than this one....
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
I get that 'snob' and 'elitist' tag sometimes, but seriously, when you're used to reading good literature you're forced to continue those kinds of selections. Everything else is like reading TV.
Reading tv...Originally Posted by spearmint
nice. I'm definitely gonna use that phrase when someone starts philosophizing to me about books and it turns out to be an inane pop-lit book
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
I just finished Paradise Lost and my friend recommended "Life of Pi"..
So what? Life of Pi is not a bad book.
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
Yeah "Life of Pi" is actually pretty good.. I definitely would not call it pop-lit or genre trash, that's for sure..
I don't know anyone else who reads... so it has never happened to me.
Where are all the readers? Reading?
LOL, none of my friends or family read either. I cannot even discuss Harry Potter with anyone I know. Thank goodness for the internet!
Agreed. There's a point where snobbery can keep you from reading some very good books. Although recommendations from friends are always chancy.
I go through phases. And some of the modern books I've read (Water for Elephants, Art of Racing in the Rain, Cold Mountain, Life of Pi, Kite Runner) I have really enjoyed, whereas I had to have a forced march through Crime and Punishment.
I go through phases too
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