Are book lovers snobs

[rssllue]

I don't think so nor would I like it to be truth. I am not a book snob and dislike snobs from any kind. Most of my acquaintances don't read and some of them are still intelligent.

I would have to say the same about my acquaintances who do read too!

[Archie1791]

Yeah, sometimes when a person doesn't read and say stupid things about a book or about the people who reads.
They don't know how much they are missing, i think we learn something from each and every line we read. It feels so good to read to feel the emotions and pain and happiness and all the other feelings of charecters of a book. I love books and hate who say stupid things about books.

[Gravy]

I have to argue with the assumption that non-readers are automatically not as intelligent as readers.
Many of the most intelligent people don't read...or at least don't read the way most people consider reading.

[ALynnPowers]

I wouldn't want anyone else to look down on me because of something that I don't do. Take watching TV, for example. Or listening to a different kind of music. As long as they don't try to change me into a non-reader, I won't try to change them into a reader, we can both have our own interests, and then let's all get along and be friends and bake a cake filled with rainbows.

[Gravy]

let's all get along and be friends and bake a cake filled with rainbows.

If I ever had a doubt that you were a cheery person this would answer the question.
I'd like to bake a cake filled with rainbows...
I should look up a recipe

[ALynnPowers]

let's all get along and be friends and bake a cake filled with rainbows.

If I ever had a doubt that you were a cheery person this would answer the question.
I'd like to bake a cake filled with rainbows...
I should look up a recipe

Also a semi-quote from Mean Girls.
A cake made out of rainbows and smiles!

[Lyn_R]

Point Proven: How can book lovers be snobs if we are sharing rainbow cakes?

[textcritter]

If you use books as a weapon to demean
others or place yourself above them in a league that's entirely of your imagination. You're going to be very unhappy. You're trying to fill voids in your life with something
you're good at and possibly someone else isn't.That's a lot of territory. One of my favorite authors was Bill
Buckley. He was a complete snob and when he trotted it out to use on others who
weren't socialized in his very elitist environment, it was painful to watch. He ran over
people like Huey Newton and Cesar Chavez by using a vocabulary they didn't understand. Why did he have to do this? To make the world aware that he had attended
Yale? And that his closest friend was God? If you're a book snob,consider where you
are and what you've really won. Actually, the whole notion is harmless and not worth consideration. Now that Bill's up there, playing chess with his best Bud, i've got over kill and The History of Punctuation all to myself. I hope.

[suzy1124]

If you think about it we're all snobs or " biased " to some degree or another , there's no escaping it, it's human nature..

Interesting thoughts re Bill Buckley!...I got a kick out of it!...( Limbaugh continues to make a fool of himself by mimicking his mentor /Buckley and pronouncing words like "SCHEDULE " as " SHEDULE "...........I can just hear his wife telling him :" Hon, what's w/the British ? "...Sooo OBNOXIOUS!

[textcritter]

Bill had some good ideas and some bad ones. He was virulently anti- Communist.
But brought in Whittaker Chambers(The Pumpkins Papers) as a contributing editor
for The National Review from 1955 til 1961, because he "hated to see his incredible
genius neglected." He played his instincts and first impressions. If he didn't like you,
you were doomed(Gore, Spock, and Chomsky were regular recipients of his ire). He
loved his classmate at Horace Mann, Jack Kerouac, enough to invite him on Firing Line.
Kerouac arrived drunk, got drunker, and passed out before the interview was over. When they returned from commercial break, the camera panned Kerouac's empty chair
then locked on WFBs toothy grin. He hissed "To Be Continued" at the camera. FIN.
Buckley was never seduced into snobbery by anybody, and certainly not books. He was a self made man.

[Gravy]

If you think about it we're all snobs or " biased " to some degree or another , there's no escaping it, it's human nature..

So sad
So very true
Even if it's being prejudiced against prejudiced people...it's still a prejudice
Well said suzy

[rssllue]

This thread is starting to become a real bummer! Can't we all just be happy snobs?

[suzy1124]

TY G.R.!

[Greeneyedphotogirl79]

I don't think so. I think we have an advantage in life being readers. If I talk to someone who doesn't read, I don't snub them. Everyone has the choice of reading or not.

[suzy1124]

Here's to Caviar, Champagne dreams and Rainbow cakes...