Reading is sexy...according to poll

[dwndrgn]

This is an article on the Guardian blogs website: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturev..._you_look.html

a snippet:

Not only can you judge a book by its cover, it seems you can judge the person reading it, too. According to a survey of over 2,000 adults carried out by internet pollsters YouGov for Borders bookstore, books play a crucial role in influencing our opinions of strangers. Half of those asked admitted that they would look again or smile at someone on the basis of what they were reading.

I agree. Anyone reading a book gets an extra notch upwards in the 'attractive' scale.

Read the comments after the article - they are a treat.

[Alia]

Some books which would make me sit up and take notice: anything by Murakami; any Ishiguro after (and including) The Unconsoled; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; early Updike; any of Rankin's Rebus books; any of Mankell's Wallander books; in fact, any Scandinavian mystery; any Paul Auster or Siri Hustvedt book; any Paul Theroux book (especially one of his travel books); anything by Christopher Hitchens; Lucky Jim.
Posted by joana on August 1, 2006 05:32 PM.
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Joana: you've pretty much summarised my literary tastes. what are you doing this weekend???
Posted by bananawater on August 1, 2006 05:38 PM.
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I thought this was fun!

Now if I saw a man reading Kate Elliott, I would talk with him even ask him out for lunch to continue our discussion. But alas, a man reading in these parts is rare and even rarer still to be reading Elliott's work.

[Joel007]

I rarely see anyone reading anything that I've read. Although i was on a bus with 3 pratcheteers once

[Paige Turner]

Reading is sexy… according to poll.

I remember reading that somewhere…

[TK-421]

To the authors of the poll: Tell me something I didn't know already!

[Joel007]

awww, if only he'd left that open for all of us to answer I could have swept us off in a tangent. Ah well.

[Paige Turner]

Originally Posted by Joel007

… I could have swept us off in a tangent.

You know, the word tangent is derived from the arabic word tanjit, meaning "riverbed," a reference to its undulating, random course.

[mosaix]

I read the title of this thread as Reading in Berkshire - you know - the town. I worked there for years and although it's not bad it certainly isn't sexy.

[Nesacat]

Sexy it certainly is but I hardly ever see anyone reading anything at all here. Even in bookstores. If i saw someone reading something I liked I'd definitely go over and say meowrr.

[Foxbat]

Hmmm....I do all my reading in private...perhaps that's why I'm single

[Nesacat]

That might a contributory factor.

[Joel007]

well, when my wife watches TV and i want to talk to her she says wait for the adverts... so i say the same when i'm reading and she wants my attention

"But there aren't any adverts!"
"And that's the way i like it!"

[CarlottaVonUberwald]

i'd like to believe this but..the guardian? come on

if it is true you never know though i could be in luck

[GOLLUM]

AH.....so that explains all those looks I keep getting from young ladies when out and about on public transport...

[Joel007]

They said that women like you if you can make them laugh... I should be right in there then, women laugh at me all the time!