The business of books is bad for reading

Inversion Features :: Don't Point that Ad at Me :: the business of books is bad for reading

This rant offers much that I agree with: that glorious feeling of hefting a book to help decide on its purchase, the joy of discovering a new author or book, even the fact that I also am too quick to proselytize the merits of this or that book, but slow to heed the recommendations from friends and family. I even find the author's list of notable books intriguing; I looked up each with which I was previously unfamiliar. And isn't that the value of word-of-mouth publicity?

So I wonder: have you read any good books lately? Come on, be out with it...