Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. Rare is the guy who’d throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing her imperfect taste in books.After all, women read more, especially when it comes to fiction. “It’s really great if you find a guy that reads, period,” said Beverly West.“Most of my friends and men in my life are nonreaders,” she said, but “now that you mention it, if I went over to a man’s house and there were those books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on.”

James Collins, whose new novel, “Beginner’s Greek,” is about a man who falls for a woman he sees reading “The Magic Mountain” on a plane, recalled that after college, he was “infatuated” with a woman who had a copy of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” on her bedside table. “I basically knew nothing about Kundera, but I remember thinking, ‘Uh-oh; trendy, bogus metaphysics, sex involving a bowler hat’...

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A perfect follow up to your previous clip! I have to find more time for Goodreads - maybe I'll fall in love there...?

Interesting - I've often figured that this is the sort of thing that urban hipsters concern themselves with faking well.

As for me, I'm happy to read my copy of Harry Potter out in the open. I wear my geekdom on my sleeve

Most of the readers I know are women, hmmmm.

Music rather than books can be a deal breaker for me.