Saw a woman reading THE LOST SYMBOL on the subway yesterday. I'm surprised it took me almost a month to spot one, though my sample is both small and non-indicative of the hardcover-buying population (and I'm not the most attentive rider in the world). She was past the 400-page mark and looked bored.
*I see a fair amount of young men reading in Hebrew on the subway -- again, not because the language is demonstrably taking off, but because I live downstream from a Jewish university. Other popular categories on my commute include back issues of the New Yorker and self-help in Spanish.
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I too see a lot of New Yorker readers, but then my neighborhood has a pretty high per-capita population. I see Devil In the White City and The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao a fair amount, considering their relative age and popularity.
I saw someone reading THE LOST SYMBOL on an airplane yesterday: he was past Chapter 100.
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