'Cause she loves the classics....and they're pretty dirty.

February 13, 2012 6:10 PM

Poet and Educational Consultant Mark Grist - Girls who read.
posted by lazaruslong (20 comments total)

Previously.
posted by timsteil at 6:14 PM on February 13, 2012

I like a guy who likes a girl who reads....
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 6:22 PM on February 13, 2012 [2 favorites]

He's a frigg'n poet that's not even drunk, what other kind of girl would he be interested in?
posted by sammyo at 6:29 PM on February 13, 2012

Thanks, lazaruslong. I am pretty tanked up on cough syrup and my brain isn't working as well as it might, so everything is seeming a little Alice in Wonderland to me tonight!
posted by Sidhedevil at 6:30 PM on February 13, 2012 [2 favorites]

Girls who read...are sexy as hell provided it's a book I approve of.
posted by tumid dahlia at 7:06 PM on February 13, 2012 [1 favorite]

I am not going to even apply that rule.

Girls who read are hot PERIOD.

Now to find a girl who reads who might like a guy whose neighbors call him "The Book Dude."
posted by Samizdata at 7:59 PM on February 13, 2012 [1 favorite]

Yes, yes. A thousand times, yes.

Coming out of a long-term relationship, I am bound and determined the next go-around requires a Reader. A girl who reads.

If you please.
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:01 PM on February 13, 2012

Girls who read are hot PERIOD.

Really? How about girls who read Ayn Rand? And LIKE IT.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 8:01 PM on February 13, 2012

Oh, and I have this print of my favorite Picasso, seen at the Norton Simon: Woman with a Book.
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:03 PM on February 13, 2012

Really? How about girls who read Ayn Rand? And LIKE IT.

Still hot, but I wouldn't go picking out curtains with her.
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:08 PM on February 13, 2012 [3 favorites]

That made my non-event nearly Valentine's Day.

/cuddles up with a good book
posted by smirkette at 8:25 PM on February 13, 2012

Because I go for cheap puns: this guy likes girls with big books, not girls with big boobs.
posted by madcaptenor at 9:27 PM on February 13, 2012

This made me very happy.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 9:42 PM on February 13, 2012 [1 favorite]

I liked this better when it was called The Whore of Mensa.
posted by jdfan at 11:42 PM on February 13, 2012 [4 favorites]

I really liked that. Now sending to all librarians I know and also all women who read that I know - which is all of em !
posted by Faintdreams at 3:27 AM on February 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

Also, don't miss Mark Grist's scathing freestyle rap smackdown of 'Blizzard':
posted by mattholomew at 4:33 AM on February 14, 2012

I've never dated a non-reading woman. I've never even explicitly thought of it as a criteria, but I have trouble imagining being really compatible with someone who doesn't share that pleasure.
posted by Forktine at 6:07 AM on February 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

From Tom Bissell's A Bridge Under Water: "Disappointment," he says, "is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand."
posted by benito.strauss at 11:18 AM on February 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

I find it hard to have conversations with people who don't read, much less relationships.
posted by BrashTech at 4:11 PM on February 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

His thoughts were red thoughts: "Girls who read are hot PERIOD.

Really? How about girls who read Ayn Rand? And LIKE IT."

These just need broken to harness is all.

Oh, fuck. Did I type that out loud?
posted by Samizdata at 8:06 PM on February 26, 2012