Today, I stumbled upon an article: "My 6,128 Favorite Books" by Joe Queenan in the review section of The Wall Street Journal. I thought I'd share some of his comments, which I find to be true.
"A case can be made that people who read a preposterous number of books are not playing with a full deck. I prefer to think of us as dissatisfied customers. If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find "reality" a bit of a disappointment."
"Women in our own era read "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre" and even "The Bridges of Madison County"- a dimwit, hayseed reworking of "Madame Bovary"- because they imagine how much happier they would be if their husbands did not spend quite so much time with their drunken, illiterate golf buddies down at Myrtle Beach."
"People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, not merely an electronic version, believe that the objects themselves are sacred. Some people may find this attitude baffling, arguing that books are merely objects that take up space. This is true, but so are Prague and your kids and the Sistine Chapel. Think it through, bozos."
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