good book recommendations

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by AlexMack

I gotta admit this-I'm sort of a book snob. I cannot bring myself to buy any trashy chick lit, be seen reading it, be seen considering it, any of it. Well that and the blatant consumerism in the Shopaholic series sickens me, but yeah...uh...I can't bring myself to read the popular fiction like that. Sometimes I steal other people's books instead. I read so fast they can have it back in a day. It's all formulaic anyway. Woman, late 20s, bad dating life, works in publishing or marketing, neurotic about shopping/weight/food/alcohol or all four, meets guy, he's the boss, gets promotion, falls in love, solves major conflict, the end. Boom, I just wrote some chick-lit. 30 second novel.

I used to feel that way when I was in college. Now that actual, like, work has got me busy and thinking about buildings and money like, all the time, I would rather read Sophie Kinsella and Jennifer Weiner than Freakonomics. It's good subway reading.