Actually, he also reads books about baseball.

[snarp]

Dad, aggrieved: Sarah, have you everread a John Grisham book?

Me: Have you ever read a Patricia McKillip book?

Dad: No, Sarah, he's a really good writer -

Me: Do you even remember the last book you read?

Dad: Yes! It was on vacation last week. I read the latest John Grisham.

Me: So you only read John Grisham books, and political books with titles like "Obama: How He Won."

Dad: That is accurate.

Me: See, this is why I can't trust you when you tell me John Grisham's a good writer! You've got zero credibility! - Did you even read The Great Gatsby last night, like you said you were going to?

Dad: I got about two pages in and then decided to go to bed.

He decided he was going to read The Great Gatsby because he was watching Midnight in Paris YET AGAIN, and he likes Zelda Fitzgerald. (Also, he can't read anything by Hemingway or Faulkner because it's too dark, and he can't read anything by T. S. Eliot because it's too "effeminate." I don't know what his problem is, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is basically a Woody Allen movie.)

Comments

[chomiji]

Perhaps some suitably macho military scifi might prove to be a gateway drug for his reading of more creative types of fiction.

[snarp]

He actually doesn't like anything with violence in it; the only movies he watches are PG-13-rated romantic comedies, stuff about animals, or Woody Allen. When I was a kid he would actually leave the room at a certain point in Care Bears II.

[rroselavy]

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is basically a Woody Allen movie.

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