So I’m not the only one that does this
Choice of literature as a barometer for love?
Um, ka-YES.
It’s not the only factor; it’s not like “YOU LIKE DAN BROWN OBVIOUSLY WE CAN’T DATE,” but matching taste in literature is wonderful.
I would completely shriek to my friends if someone I liked didn’t know Pushkin. Eugene Onegin, anyone?
Although I take offense at the “Virginia Woolf (too Virginia Woolf)” comment. I like Virginia Woolf, though she may overuse semicolons at times. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself, and well she should. Everyone has a suicidal lady author phase (some people love Woolf, some Plath, some Sexton, etc.).
Thoughts? Books you like?
I may be forced to put up a book list eventually. Jesus.
If you like trashy chicklit, now is your chance to confess.
Man, I’m an English dork. Books and grammar all the way….
raalla replied:
Hey.
don’t hurt me, but I suppose I should tell you that:
I don’t know Pushkin, or Eugene Onegin. I’ve never read Virginia Woolf.
I read trashy chicklit sometimes.
I find YA books really ARE more interesting to me than adult books, but only if carefully filtered.
29 March, 2008 at 4:10 pm. Permalink.
bylandl replied:
I never said that chicklit was a bad thing,
and I think you need to run off and read (or at least read about) pushkin. There’s hope for you yet. =P
29 March, 2008 at 4:44 pm. Permalink.
raalla replied:
Yeah, also, I do this too…
well, Elena does it to the people I like. She highly disapproved of Gracie because she “doesn’t really read.” She ended up being right….
29 March, 2008 at 6:05 pm. Permalink.
Pip replied:
http://xkcd.com/304/
I read this right after I finished “Children of the Mind”. And I laughed for a solid ten minutes.
(I loved them all, can’t chose)
30 March, 2008 at 12:54 pm. Permalink.
katling replied:
Fellow bibliophiles unite!
*waves tiny flag*
I’m on a Campion spree right now …I cannot spell the authour’s name, being that it is long and English (I can read but I cannot spell….*weeps*)
30 March, 2008 at 4:36 pm. Permalink.