books
sorry, I read that
from the NYT [h/t AYG's facebook feed]:
Still, to some reading men, literary taste does matter. “I’ve broken up with girls saying, ‘She doesn’t read, we had nothing to talk about,’” said Christian Lorentzen, an editor at Harper’s. Lorentzen recalls giving one girlfriend Nabokov’s “Ada” — since it’s “funny and long and very heterosexual, even though I guess incest is at its core.” The relationship didn’t last, but now, he added, “I think it’s on her Friendster profile as her favorite book.”
I dated a woman once who went on and on over our initial dinners about how she was "studying world religions." When we finally got to the reading-in-bed stage, she pulled out a dog-eared, fat paperback copy of some kind of Penguin/Norton "Book of World Religions" and proceeded to read a page or two before intently staring out into space, seemingly listening to the ether for an answering sound before eagerly turning back to the next few pages.
a rather obvious point
When you buy a book used on Amazon, it can cost anywhere from 50 to 75 percent less than new. I just bought a bunch of books I need for a piece and realized I have a default tendency to buy them new for no apparent reason.
