March 25, 2009

Study says men are more likely to lie about what they read, are slower readers, and a lot of other things I haven’t finished reading about yet, but I’m sure they’re not good….

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Women are far more avid readers than men, according to a new survey for the National Year of Reading Campaign. The study found “almost half of women are ‘page turners’ who finish a book soon after starting it compared to only 26 per cent of men,” according to a Telegraph report by Alastair Jamieson. Men were also “more likely to have shelves full of books that have never been opened,” more likely to lie about having read a book when they haven’t, and twice as likely to be slow readers who only get through one or two books a year.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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