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mjh215, I for one try to stay away from Bestsellers and most science fiction, although I must confess I sometimes read what is praised by nerds like myself, Neal Stephenson, Michael McCollum, Chuck Palahniuk, Ian Banks, Frank Herbert, although I love Star Trek, I have read only a single novel, I have also read the Harry Potter(I felt it would be important in understanding the generation after my own) series, The Da Vinci Code, 2 Ayn Rand novels, I think I started on the Foundation series and gave up, also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep(novel from which was based the Blade Runner script, although I didn't even like the movie that much, just felt curious), and others my shame won't let me remember. Sometimes it is just a guilty pleasure that usually leaves you incensed afterwards, but the problem for most people is, how distant saying, "I, have read most of Proust and Henry James", makes you seem to the common man, and occasional reader, and most of the times even to avid readers. Still, it is very true, there is no comparison between the joy from reading a acclaimed work that really resonates with you, and most of the acclaimed works that doesn't, to the joy of reading just any book. Some here will say "Reading classics is just a phase, you will out grown it", I for one hope not, but, well, shit happens.
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