I just had to say something...
...something I can't say in Multiply because I went ahead and added my office-mate (who, btw, is the topic of this post). Good thing there's LJ.
Anyway, so yesterday, having nothing better to do and since we're stuck together for the rest of our stay in this company, my office-mate and I started talking about books. She isn't much of a reader which will kind of be her disadvantage when it comes to thinking creative thoughts and witty lines because--no matter how much we try to say it came from us--we are always influenced by the things we "eat." As most people who are not really into reading, she asked if I like Twilight to which, of course, I answered "no." I know I have no right to dislike something without even trying to read it but I've watched the movie and I didn't like any of the lines (which are actually cliche's put together to make a conversation).
So anyway, being half a book geek, I started raving about my favorite books and recommended some to her. She told me she bought Jane Eyre back in high school and she was still in the third chapter. And I was like "whut?! I finished Jane Eyre in three days and that was when I still hated reading books!" Well, anyway, I can understand her since she's not really a literature student. I think she's even better suited as an AE because she has a bubbly, friendly personality which is very important in the accounts department.
After some more minutes of talking about books, we moved on to authors. I talked about Le Guin and raved about Pratchett which was all in vain because she knows neither of them. After the fruitless author subject, we moved to movies. I told her I'm waiting for Coraline to come out in the cinemas and she asked me what the movie was about. And then I said, in a fan-girly kind of way, "It's based on Neil Gaiman's book!" and she was like, "who?"
I was shocked but I tried to dig about her memory for any recognition of one of the best authors today. I told her Gaiman wrote the Sandman series and her reply was epic: "Hindi ba kalaban ni Spider-man si Sandman?" So I gave up. If she didn't know the sandman who goes around making people sleep, then she would have no idea whatsoever of who Neil Gaiman is.
My mom said I was being unfair. Maybe I am. I'm so used in being surrounded by people who know the authors that I know and maybe more that my jaw literally dropped when someone don't know one of the best mainstream authors of today. Gaiman is mainstream right? Like Rowling and, oh well, Meyer?
Anyway, so yesterday, having nothing better to do and since we're stuck together for the rest of our stay in this company, my office-mate and I started talking about books. She isn't much of a reader which will kind of be her disadvantage when it comes to thinking creative thoughts and witty lines because--no matter how much we try to say it came from us--we are always influenced by the things we "eat." As most people who are not really into reading, she asked if I like Twilight to which, of course, I answered "no." I know I have no right to dislike something without even trying to read it but I've watched the movie and I didn't like any of the lines (which are actually cliche's put together to make a conversation).
So anyway, being half a book geek, I started raving about my favorite books and recommended some to her. She told me she bought Jane Eyre back in high school and she was still in the third chapter. And I was like "whut?! I finished Jane Eyre in three days and that was when I still hated reading books!" Well, anyway, I can understand her since she's not really a literature student. I think she's even better suited as an AE because she has a bubbly, friendly personality which is very important in the accounts department.
After some more minutes of talking about books, we moved on to authors. I talked about Le Guin and raved about Pratchett which was all in vain because she knows neither of them. After the fruitless author subject, we moved to movies. I told her I'm waiting for Coraline to come out in the cinemas and she asked me what the movie was about. And then I said, in a fan-girly kind of way, "It's based on Neil Gaiman's book!" and she was like, "who?"
I was shocked but I tried to dig about her memory for any recognition of one of the best authors today. I told her Gaiman wrote the Sandman series and her reply was epic: "Hindi ba kalaban ni Spider-man si Sandman?" So I gave up. If she didn't know the sandman who goes around making people sleep, then she would have no idea whatsoever of who Neil Gaiman is.
My mom said I was being unfair. Maybe I am. I'm so used in being surrounded by people who know the authors that I know and maybe more that my jaw literally dropped when someone don't know one of the best mainstream authors of today. Gaiman is mainstream right? Like Rowling and, oh well, Meyer?