Posted by jkm822 at michigan.mgmt.rpi.edu on May 28, 2003 at 13:56:52:
In Reply to: Really, it's all subjective, isn't it? posted by Lithmick on May 28, 2003 at 13:51:33:
My ex had it, so I borrowed it and read it. I thought it was pretty damned funny, as well.
I agree that there's not enough reading out there, but I don't know that convincing to read the moving words of Marilyn Manson is a solution to the problem... or something that will further the cause.
Do I have a closed mind to someone whose music makes me want to hurl? Yeah, I'll admit to that. If I have no interest in what he has to say musically, I see no reason why his prose should be any different.
I also don't think that reading the bio of a celebrity could NECESSARILY be termed constructive reading. Not that most of what I read - sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comic books, and humor - are any better, I suppose. I like fine literature, as well, but there's only so much of that you can make it through before you come to the end of it; all the authors are dead, you see.
I'm glad people are reading, it just saddens me that it takes a biography by a "shock-rock" twit to get people to crack a book. And it saddens me that it's CALLED a book.