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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Taste Is In The Eye Of The...Wait, What?

I recently read an article on the favourite books of celebrities. It was enlightening, not in the sense that we got to know who they were as people but who they wanted people to think they were.

The people who were in it were people like Jim Carrey, Alec Baldwin, Gary Lineker and such so I was expecting some half truthful answers.

Now I expected that with some of these books there would a be a few who claimed to like the classics such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist but never so many as there actually were. The article was filled with books that would all easily make it onto my high school reading list.

I mean my main point is (you can see I'm serious because my main point is coming in so soon) that you cannot tell me that if once you become mildy famous you suddenly need to like things of what some would call a 'higher class'.

I mean all of the books chosen were the sort you would find in the Waterstones classics section. I mean there was Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and J.D. Salinger. But the only people with any real sense of truthfulness were Gordon Brown and Wayne Rooney. For those that are interested Brown's favourite book was The Snail And The Whale (I can only presume he has a kid, and is forced to read the same book over and over until he is forced to fall in love with it. We shall talk about this concept later).
and Rooney's was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Yeah you heard me Philosopher's not SORCERER'S.

I'm just saying they surely have guilty pleasure books and these are often the best. If you ask me 100 time what my favourite book is, 100 time I will say it's Hover Car Racer. By far one of the most enjoyable books ever. Just brilliant.

I have read that book ten times and probably more. I got it when I was like 11? And it's now the most dog eared thing I own. And I have a dog so think about that for a second.

"And that's all I have to say about that."
(I know this was a short and awfully written piece but it just came to my head).
P.S. I'm also a little tipsy. Sorry.

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