Are you what you Read?

[Stephanie]

You have probably heard the saying that you can tell a person[character etc] by the company that they keep?
Do you think the same holds true for what a person reads?
I saw somewhere on this website a thread asking 'what sort of Jane Austen character are you?'  It was quiz question.  It got me thinking.  I have never read Jane Austen or any of the Bronte Sisters and I have only read two so-called chick-lit books.  I didn't like either of the heroines in these two chick-lit books.  They were tiresome, unlikeable and two dimensional, and the other characters were lazy stereotypes - the macho businessman, whom our heroine  will do anything to marry, the heroine's gossipy, bitchy, 'sex and shopping' mad girlfriends etc.
  Does this mean that I am not as feminine as I like to think, or does it mean that when it comes to literature I have good taste? 

[Nero]

hey, I love Jane Austen! 

[Stephanie]

Btw I didn't mean to imply that I think Austen and the Brontes were bad writers I am simply not drawn to their books.

[Nero]

okay, I was just teasing. 

I don't think there's a law somewhere that chicks must read chick books, so I think you're okay there. 

[Stephanie]

Hi Nero 

I just remembered I read Jane Eyre in first year at university.  I liked that book!


I often identify with the the principal female character in books.    I liked and strongly identified with Brenda Last in Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust that was until Waugh brilliantly in the course of a few pages transformed Brenda into a figure of contempt!

[LivingInGrey]

I could use more chick-lit (never heard that term before0 in my library.

gimme the good stuff

[Jamie-o]

I worked in bookstores for 8 years.  The most popular genres for women were actually #1 mainstream, dramatic literature (e.g. Kite Runner, Middlesex, Life of Pi, etc.) and #2 Thrillers.  I would say "chick-lit" (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, etc.) came in third.  Of course, it varied a lot from community to community.  When I worked in a blue-collar town we sold a lot of Romance, whereas in a wealthy town with an older population we sold almost none.