Snobbery
A nice article about people buying books just to look cool. I am included in that demographic because I'm a big fat phoney. I don't however mind being a snob much because I don't really read for frivolous enjoyment and don't hide in the closet with Clive Cussler or some Tom Clancy book. I come right out and say I'm full of shit by reading Ulysses and not understand it, but I enjoy learning and pissing off my brain by making it think.
After a while you start to really love Graham Greene for Graham Greene or fucking Pope because you just know him. You look at Hemingway in a way that you identify with him and not just a a goddamn conversation piece. You're not under the bed with a flashlight at night but you aren't slupring down a big fatty cheeseburger of a fucking book that's just not good for you either. Books to me are like vegetables.
