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		"Adults Should Read Adult Books", writes Time columnist. By that logic, Americans should only read American books, and morons should only read Time magazine (nytimes.com)		23
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DarthBrooks		2012-04-02 12:34:20 AM

9 votes:

I have no idea what "The Hunger Games" is like. Maybe there are complicated shades of good and evil in each character.

Welcome to The NY Times Hearsay Literature Review. Next week: "I've Heard Great Things About 'Sense & Sensibility' from People at Starbucks"

tuna fingers		2012-04-02 02:16:59 PM

5 votes:

I only read books about the struggles of the contemporary American black woman.

Because those give me a hard-on.

Mike Chewbacca		2012-04-02 02:03:54 PM

5 votes:

I appreciate that adults occasionally watch Pixar movies or play video games.

Yes, I'm sure every seven year old bawled his or her eyes out after the beginning montage of Up, because it just spoke to them and their real-life experiences of losing or potentially losing the love of their life. And I'm sure every seven year old gets nightmares from playing Dead Island or Left 4 Dead until 1am. Wait, that second sentence might actually be true.

Fano		2012-04-02 02:23:01 PM

4 votes:

I plan to sit in Starbucks with the dust jackets from weighty intellectual tomes covering over a Tijuana Bible. I will nod approvingly and purse my lips and sip my latte every so often, as though I had discovered something important about the human condition while actually seeing Wimpy schtupping it to Olive Oyl.

ferretman		2012-04-02 03:41:41 PM

2 votes:

It's a moot point.....children aren't allowed in these stores already.

Epicedion		2012-04-02 02:21:52 PM

2 votes:

Fizpez: Oh god.... that damn series has been on my "not done with it yet" for almost half of my life - it has become the Bataan death march of fantasy series - I will finish it if only to say that I survived it while so many others fell by the wayside.

Even the author didn't survive to the end.

BroVinny		2012-04-02 02:05:23 PM

2 votes:

At least these people are reading books instead of pissing away their lives away commenting on news aggregator websites.

GoodyearPimp		2012-04-02 01:58:19 PM

2 votes:

I read adult magazines. Does that count?

hubiestubert		2012-04-02 01:49:44 AM

2 votes:

This might have played better if he'd been pictured with an ironic hat and a PBR in his hand...

Sgygus		2012-04-01 11:59:09 PM

2 votes:

Actually, if I am seeking entertainment, I not uncommonly revert to childhood innocence to enjoy some fiction. Suspension of disbelief is just as necessary in 'adult' fiction as it is in 'juvenile' books.

/Joel Stein column. You have to scrape the slime layer of narcissism off the page before you can read it.

LewDux		2012-04-03 01:36:45 AM

1 votes:

neversubmit: It's been said before and yet it still seems no one knows how to tell todays "grow-ups" they are emotionally and intellectually hindered in such a way that they will listen rather than be offended.

Stephen Fry: Doctor Who is a children's programme (new window)

Fry, who hosts QI, said that the programmes were "like a chicken nugget. Every now and again we all like it ... But if you are an adult you want something surprising, savoury, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong.

"You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means."

Link (new window)

coldones		2012-04-02 06:31:41 PM

1 votes:

I can't even read at all .

ProfessorOhki		2012-04-02 05:49:36 PM

1 votes:

Mikey1969		2012-04-02 03:41:57 PM

1 votes:

Electromax: It's like the people who harp on about how TV is melting everyone's brains

No, just reality TV. That shouldn't even be shown to prisoners @ Gitmo.

PizzaJedi81		2012-04-02 03:09:53 PM

1 votes:

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: [i44.tinypic.com image 640x422]

He reads books, but ones you've probably never heard of.

Looks like he's drunk and pissing against the wall.

The WindowLicker		2012-04-02 02:41:29 PM

1 votes:

Epicedion: hailin: //Wheel of Time is proving hard to get through...plot can get boring for half a book at a time

It only ever gets worse, unfortunately.

No the wheel of time plot started moving much faster once the author died.

Fizpez		2012-04-02 02:16:14 PM

1 votes:

Epicedion: hailin: //Wheel of Time is proving hard to get through...plot can get boring for half a book at a time

It only ever gets worse, unfortunately.

Oh god.... that damn series has been on my "not done with it yet" for almost half of my life - it has become the Bataan death march of fantasy series - I will finish it if only to say that I survived it while so many others fell by the wayside.

/Feist on the other hand has been on the same series equally as long but I still plow through em in 2 days.

jayhawk88		2012-04-02 02:06:00 PM

1 votes:

What's a paper-back copy of Hunger Games going for on Amazon now...$10? Maybe less? This could be a fun mail prank...

KiplingKat872		2012-04-02 01:55:44 PM

1 votes:

...and may he be forever consigned to the "Pastel Aisle" in the book store. A lot of fiction aimed at "adults" is a much more crappily written than Harry Potter and the first Hunger Games novel.

Russ1642		2012-04-02 01:55:29 PM

1 votes:

blah blah adults occasionally watch Pixar movies blah blah

This guy is a complete moron.

PanicMan		2012-04-02 01:43:40 PM

1 votes:

Perfect timing:

you can't tell me what toys i can play with
you can't tell me not to grow my crops
you can't tell me which sex i can marry
its so scary the weird way that you watch

Mugato		2012-04-02 12:49:55 PM

1 votes:

"Hi, I'm a pretentious douchebag!"

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I did the compulsory lit classes in high school and college. I've read Tolstoy and Twain and Dickens and Shakespeare, I get it. I doubt any of them would be all snooty about being great artists. Well maybe Tolstoy. I have a niece, I've read a few chapters of Harry Potter. I don't see how greatly inferior it is than Tolkien. Twilight I have a problem with but besides that, STFU. At least some people are reading.