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WORK

The Hate Reader. Oh, you. You pretend to be curmudgeonly, you do, but you really just devour the reading you do in a different way. You’re loving it nearly as much as you’re hating it…

The Chronological Reader. Slow and steady wins the race, dear reader. You are the tortoise to the promiscuous reader’s distracted-at-any-turn hare…

The Book-Buster. Is your home strewn with books scattered about, this way and that, their pages turned, their covers folded over, their backs broken and their limbs splayed out on either side? You are a destroyer of books, but you love them so. Your spirit book character is Lennie of Of Mice and Men…

Delayed Onset Reader #1. You are without a doubt a book lover, and when you walk into a bookstore or any place books are available, you can’t help yourself, you buy one or many…

Delayed Onset Reader #2. You are not a book lover. You buy books so you can show them off…

The Anti-Reader. You are the book version of the person who claims “I never watch TV! I don’t even own one!” You never read books, because you find them too long. You consider blog posts too long, too, and are always penning comments that say “TLDR”…

The Cross-Under. You are a grown-up who reads Y.A. or kids books, or a kid who reads adult books, and there is a place for you in society, finally…

The Multi-Tasker. This is the nice way of saying you are a promiscuous reader, but it’s not that you don’t finish reads. Instead, you just have a sort of hippie reading way about you, free love or some such…

The Sleepy Bedtime Reader. Do you feel the only time you have to read is when you’re about to go to sleep? …

—Jen Doll
—from “What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide”

Bonus: Part Two: “Many More Types of Book Readers: A Diagnostics Addendum”

WORD(S)

feculent. adjective. Foul. Impure. Covered in filth. Containing feces, sediment or dregs. From Latin, faeces plural of faex (dregs).

“Both his handes most filthy feculent.” (Edmund Spenser)

“…floury and feculent substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment.” (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

“…we want these children to feel justice has been served. That way they can sleep soundly tonight on their hard, feculant, motel pillows.” (Sideshow Bob)

“Thinking of the chickens made her think ineluctably of her father, for whom the chickens, even though sick, unattractively bald in spots, and feculent, were cherished reminders of his departed wife…” (Sam Savage)

“In due time he was dragged across, half strangled, and dreadfully beslubbered by the feculent waters.” (Ambrose Bierce)

WEB

1. One of the best obituaries I’ve seen: “Walter George Bruhl, Jr.”.

2. I think Matthew Yglesias is mostly right. At the very least, the idea that big publishers are morally superior and in it to serve readers should be questioned. → “Amazon is Doing the World a Favor by Crushing Book Publishers”.

3. APHEX SWIFT is surprisingly great.

4. A Modern History of Thirst.

5. Today in 1954, the first Godzilla movie is released. See the original trailer. Did you know that the original Godzilla (or, more accurately, the 200 pound suit) was covered in scars designed to evoke those borne by survivors of the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? And we might chuckle at the visual effects today, but at the time they were scary…so scary that people watching in Tokyo’s Toho Theater actually ran out of the building when Godzilla crushed that very building in the film. And fortunately for movie lovers of all kinds, the company simultaneously producing this and Seven Samurai didn’t quite go bankrupt.

REPRISES/RESPONSES/REJOINDERS/RIPOSTES

• Reader C. writes, re: the “vegetarian reader” in Friday’s newsletter: “I’d say that’s more vegan than vegetarian reader these days…”

• Reader J. muses on lists, books, moves and combinations thereof:

"My first instinct (it would be almost anyone’s first instinct, I’d guess) was to carp about the omissions (and occasionally the inclusions); my second was to cavil about the (tacit) criteria: is a great book made into a good movie a better adaption than a mediocre short story made into a very good film? Lots of excellent westerns were adapted from dime novels with no literary pretensions, for instance. Finally, it was clear to me that this is just a web thing: the point isn’t to be right, it’s to get hits (the web equivalent of being right, or even of speaking truth).

Here are ten more, in no particular order: The Princess Bride; Death in Venice; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Wise Blood; Beowulf; Solaris; Red River; Greed; The Innocents; The Conformist.

and ten more: The Idiot; The Spider’s Strategem; The Pillow Book; La Bete Humaine; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Blow-Up; 1984; Madame Bovary; 100 Days of Sodom; Peter Pan.

And: The Hunger Games; Frankenstein; The Lover; Memoirs of a Survivor; Total Recall; Troy; The Decameron; Pather Panchali; Moby Dick; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

And: The Bible."

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