By squopular demand 17 June 2003, 23:09

This or that: Reading

This better not make me throw up.

1. Newspapers or magazines?
Why do you do this to me?

2. Books-on-tape or regular books?
Regular, high octane and check the oil, please.

3. Paperback or hardcover?
Paperback, necessitating less than 1200 pages please

Buy me before good sense insists
You’ll strain your purse and sprain your wrists

-Poem inside Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy (over 1500 pages)

4. Fiction or non-fiction?
Fiction (loaded statement)

5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy or romance novels?
Heavily on the Fantasy side of SF/Fantasy

I have a theory (which is mine, ahem) that if They wanted to produce porn for women, it would be in text form and emphasize aesthetics and emotions, i.e. it’s already being done: romance novels.

6. Borrow from library or buy books (either new or used)?
Buy (Hmm, when did this begin?)

7. Subscribe to magazines or buy on newsstand?
Newsstand. The last was what, Wired? Ye gods.

8. Current best-sellers or classic literature?
A false dichotomy; current literature

9. Read books once, or re-read favorites every so often?
Depends on how much it takes outta ya

10. Here in the U.S., we have two hot best-sellers…former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s memoirs, and the new Harry Potter book (coming out June 21). If you had to read one, which one…Hillary or Harry? Why?
Hahaha. Here on the Internet, we have…ok ok ok, Harry Potter, and don’t be ridiculous. Girls, if you want to be somebody, marry somebody important.

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