Molly sent me the following Times article; not hard to see why 1. she would be reading this (it's in the book section after all) and 2. why she thinks its applies to me. One of my exes Facebook profiles lists "Where's Waldo" among his favorite books. Not hard to see how that floundered...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Donadio-t.html?ex=1207454400&en=3fe2d9d47b60bac0&ei=5070&emc=eta1
"We’ve all been there. Or some of us have. Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast. At least since Dante’s Paolo and Francesca fell in love over tales of Lancelot, literary taste has been a good shorthand for gauging compatibility."
Nice Inferno 5th canto shoutout.
I think its probably more likely that I exclude someone for not reading the newspaper than for reading bad books. If you are unlikely to read nerdy and dorky articles like this one, really, where is this going?
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What about someone who might list H.A. and Margret Rey as their favorite author
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