Mortimer Adler. How to read books (№ 171413)

They picked up the book and soon could tell that it is not so. They are simply bursting with feelings of self-importance, but because the book in their Arsenal was just an excuse for narcissism. Hardly such people can be called readers. Rather, they would be correct to classify those who consider the conversation is an occasion for self-assertion and monologue. With these people there is no sense to talk, listen to them usually is not worth it.