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Men prefer novels about alienation and women prefer novels about passion. The latter gender reads a lot more than men do, according to this Guardian article.
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It's well known in publishing that women buy the vast majority of books sold.
Posted by: Ed | July 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM
That list reads like my bookshelf. Flanked by radios of course! ;)
Posted by: Chris | July 29, 2009 at 03:25 PM
Where's all the Tom Clancy and spaghetti westerns and "adventure" books that stands between the romance section and trash bin? Okay fine, the article mentions "many of whom had some professional connection with literature," so maybe the pop genre fictions won't be in there, but really, the results sound awkward.
I've got issues w/ Heart of Darkness as I find it a semi-racist text that -- though it attempts to critique imperialist and colonial attitudes -- ends up reinforcing those same attitudes to a pretty impressive extent. Oh, and The Great Gatsby was an awful book.
Posted by: Jesse Menn | July 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM
I could never get through the Heart of Darkness. I hated Gatsby in high school but have grown to appreciate it as a masterpiece.
Posted by: Jeffrey McMahon | July 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM