do you feel a bit superior..

[grownupreading]

...when you're reading a "proper" book when everyone else on the train in the morning has a copy of Harry Potter?

Sod off..........................

oh go pick a fight somewhere else!!

its like the short men having something to prove theory, why would someone need to prove they are clever enough to read a grown up book? feeling insecure?

Wilf Self was very funny on the radio this morning having a pop at adults reading Harry Potter. Today programme about half eight this morning.

It's obviously an aimed at a more mature audience anyway, you obviously haven't read it if you think its just for kids.

Have actually never read one so am talking from a completely unimformed view but I do find Will Self's endless grumpiness very amusing.

You can read both you know. Have read War & Peace, Anna Karenina, Therese Racquin, most of Dickens, Jane Austen, George Elliot, Thomas Hardy, as well as many modern authors. Doesn't stop me loving HP.

I feel superior because I read a wide range of books and don't have a narrow view point about what a "proper" book is.

I read Madame Bovary and HP weekend before last. It didn't affect my smuggery levels, but these are usually set at default position moderate to high anyway.

I feel smug because I read really fast so I can read Harry Potter and any number of grown-up books too. Therefore I know that quite a lot of the allegedly 'proper' books that other people on the tube are reading are utter, utter tosh and much less fun than Harry Potter.

I studied children's lit as part of my degree so read quite a bit of non-adult stuff - but won't be reading HP.

No, not at all. Spent yesterday's train journey reading Primo Levi. Spent the day before reading Harry Potter.

My first degree is in English so I do feel a leetle bit smug when I see Jackie Collins/Jeffrey Archer books on the train. Sorry about that. I can't help it. It's ingrained diehard literary snobbishness. I'll admit to catching a fleeting thought of wellatleasttheyarereading^ in very very smug and patronising manner. Feel the same when I see the Daily Mail too.