in the yuppie/techie cohort, reading books *at all* is a status symbol that almost everyone signals strongly, even though most only make time to skim a couple trendy titles per year (or worse, listen to ‘key ideas’ via app)pic.twitter.com/bNzB3kNyVA
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in the yuppie/techie cohort, reading books *at all* is a status symbol that almost everyone signals strongly, even though most only make time to skim a couple trendy titles per year (or worse, listen to ‘key ideas’ via app)pic.twitter.com/bNzB3kNyVA
Have you read Sapiens? Reading it was fascinating, and more importantly made me feel better than all the people who haven’t read it. There’s also no better way to be pretentious than to use it as a way to position myself as superior to all human history
More importantly no one knows you never finished it
I literally only read Gravity’s Rainbow so I could turn around and yell “I’ve read it!” to the entire theater when Daniel Craig cracks a passing joke about nobody ever having read it in Knives Out
I tried reading it to impress a boy, but then he ghosted me and I have a third grade reading level so i didn’t finish
Where is this from?
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Normal People! Great book. It has quite a few emotional gut punches in it, too.
This post is meta. That said, I feel like you can tell when someone is really a bookworm v if they read for status.
It’s why I always read books “late.” So I don’t fall into the party...
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