paul talks about jonathan frazen; i follow the amazon link to see what else he’s written besides The Corrections. the list of “customers who bought this book also bought these books ” beneath frazen’s How to be Alone: Essays is as follows:

Strong Motion: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen (Paperback)

You Shall Know Our Velocity: Or, Sacrament by Dave Eggers (Paperback)

Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer (Author) (Paperback)

it’s somehow fitting that the same people who purchased Eggers’ novel about personal inertia also can’t be bothered to do yoga, and yet hope that by purchasing a book, yoga will somehow be done for/to them. kinda like the series i purchased in college called Japanese for Busy People (what could i do? i was in love with a boy who had ditched me for asia). no wonder lauren snickered at them – the books might as well have been called Japanese for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Learn Japanese. never did get past the ordering-soup-buying-train-tickets stage.