I’m actively angry at this book. “Probing my own experience, I discovered I generally find happiness in book reading when it’s desultory, unregulated, and somehow truant. I confess to taking gross liberties with traditional books, savoring the rule breaking, skipping forewords, concordances, and boring chapters, while lavishing prurient attention on jacket copy, dedications, and acknowledgements.” So what you’re saying is you judge books by their covers and don’t pay attention while reading? That’s evident from the prose. Apparently Heffernan doesn’t pay attention while writing either. […]