Thursday, April 06, 2006

Generalizations are Good if they are Right

Funny that even the chichi Guardian types read like I do. There should be more Dostoyevsky on the men's list, though. Here are the results of the corresponding poll for women. The comments are too ridiculous for me to synopsize here, so please have a look.
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My Frontier Thesis said...

"We found that men do not regard books as a constant companion to their life's journey, as consolers or guides, as women do," said Prof Jardine. "They read novels a bit like they read photography manuals." Women readers used much-loved books to support them through difficult times and emotional turbulence, and tended to employ them as metaphorical guides to behaviour, or as support and inspiration.

I don't read photography manuals because I don't often read manuals. I guess the Musil, Gibbon, Nietzsche, Hume, Twain, Mencken, and Bukowski on my shelf are, from this point forward, to be read as photography manuals. Maybe I'll just start laying them around the apartment for others to find. I could even open them to certain passages and pages, and maybe I could even retreat to the backs of dimly lit coffee shops and don my best self-reflexive look.

4/11/2006 3:06 PM

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