More fun from Chuck Klostermann:
A novel titled Interior Mirror is released to mammoth commerical success (despite middling reviews). However, a curious social trend emerges: Though no one can prove a direct scientific link, it appears that almost 30 percent of the people who read this book immediately become homosexual. Many of these newfound homosexuals credit the book for helping them reach this conclusion about their orientation, despite the fact that Interior Mirror is ostensibly a crime novel with no homoerotic content (and was written by a straight man).
Would this phenomenon increase (or decrease) the likliehood of you reading this book?
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I think it would increase the probability, but possibly not enough to actually get me to read it. For the simple reason that I haven't read a newly-published work of nonfiction that wasn't Harry Potter for as long as I can remember, I'd say that without the phenomenon there's no way in hell I'd read the book. I'm not sure I'd seek it out, but I guess that the whole point of a novel called "Interior Mirror" would be to look inside yourself, and I'm guessing that it's that self-reflection the novel engenders that yields this high rate of life-changing decisions. I could probably use a little look inside my soul. Couldn't we all?
On another note, I just got my laptop back from HP, and the strangest thing happened. There are no changes to the content on my hard drive except one. The #1 most played song on my iTunes is now "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, having been played at least 100 times in the past week and a half that the laptop was gone. I'm so confused I don't know where to begin.
Also -- most underrated women in the country? Colorado.
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