I couldn’t agree more.

I do. If any pop culture celebrity recommends it, I refuse to buy it. I do it purely out of spite and to rebel against the cult of celebrity.

Okay, not really. I read the blurbs, but they don’t sway my purchase decision, yay or nay.

Unbroken is phenomenal. The movie sucked. The book will sit with you a long time. Anything by Bill Bryson is you want to learn and laugh at the same time.

Lots of names to put on here. I’ll go with David Foster Wallace. I’m reading Infinite Jest and it’s nothing but an MFA’s wet dream. He’s gone out of his way to say, “Look how brilliant I am!” Meanwhile, 443 pages in, there is no plot, he didn’t seem to predict that in the future, media would be watched on portable devices (in his future we’re still watching movies on cartridges), the NE is a garbage dump (literally, a garbage dump), and there’s apparently a massive herd of feral hamsters. If you’re going to be remembered for being pretentious, you should at least leave us with something that an average MFA student hasn’t already done.