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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (35976)	4/26/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Does that make me pretentious? I certainly hope not. We do the same thing here, and I bet Thomas does too. That's the mark of a real reader, I think. I am excited when I look at my stacks of unread books. And there are many that I browse rather than consume at one go. Pretension is buying the cover because it's the perfect shade of green for the study, or the title because it's a best-seller and they want it on the coffee table where they can say- "Oh, I haven't started it yet, but I can't wait!". Then there is a whole separate class of people who read The Celestine Prophecy and believed they'd found the true meaning of life. What does one say to them? (Dan said Moby Dick was horribly boring when he read it- out of guilt- a couple of years ago. I never read it--- and I don't intend to. I read lots of decadentjunk and thoroughly enjoy it, and sometimes I even take it with me in public, so I can't be accused of pretension.)