I Hate Books

The New Yorker:

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life. --Kanye West, promoting his book Thank You and You're Welcome.

Whoever said life is an open book probably didn't have any friends. Sure, he probably liked the people in his book. But did they like him? No. Why? Because they aren't real.

Read the whole story: The New Yorker

Comments

[MosheDayanHero]

01:41 AM on 11/06/2009

A dude who doesn't read is promoting a ghost written book. And he's not even embarrassed.

[John Russell]

02:17 PM on 11/05/2009

That explains everything, Con(man)ye!

[Marcia Mayne]

10:41 AM on 11/05/2009

Kanye, Kanye, Kanye, forgive me for asking: but why'd you write the book? Did someone (Bill, maybe?) tell you it'd be good for your image? Man, I'm glad I'm not your publicist or I'd cringe each time you open your mouth!

[slvrfox857]

09:06 AM on 11/05/2009

President Obama was right about this guy.

[ChrisWarren]

06:08 AM on 11/04/2009

Those who read, automatically learn and become more aware. Those who don't, drift further and further apart from others and deeper into ignorance, as life changes and the world develops, until such times are they are no longer of any value to society. I suggest, Mr West, that if you read nothing else you should invest in a copy of my book, Randolph's Challenge Book One - The Pendulum Swings - you might find some valuable thoughts in there. I'll even autograph it if you want because, good as it is, it can't autograph itself!

Chris Warren
Author and Freelance Writer
Randolph's Challenge Book One - The Pendulum Swings

[brady61995]

12:12 AM on 11/04/2009

because they have been thrown at him too many times. he sucks

[applescruff]

10:24 AM on 11/03/2009

Sounds like a Republican. They have a fear of facts and reading themselves.

[omobob]

10:17 AM on 11/03/2009

That he is proud shows a monumental hubris that is his own lack of interest, curiosity or inability to read read. Personally believe it is the later. Who would say some thing so inane and self deprecating?

[eleanorhawking]

09:33 AM on 11/03/2009

WOW. Proud to be an illiterate, rude, egotistical, thug. Iddioooot.

[Crass Innuendo]

09:28 AM on 11/03/2009

There is no justice in the universe, else so many talented musicians and songwriters wouldn't be taken in their prime, and Kanye would have been deposited on a tissue and flushed.

[Olampean]

08:28 AM on 11/03/2009

It's not uncommon for someone to hate what they don't understand.

[Blurp]

01:34 AM on 11/03/2009

Well that explains a lot.

[ThePitchman]

05:20 PM on 11/02/2009

The president pretty much summed it up. Jacka$$.

[msladydeborah]

09:59 PM on 11/02/2009

Exactly!

[wmholt]

04:17 PM on 11/02/2009

"I would never want a book's autograph."

I wasn't aware that books were capable of giving out autographs.

Still, The New Yorker story is pretty funny, making fun of Kanye.