Are you dying to get your friends to read that great book you just couldn’t put down? You may want to think twice:

Adoring a book and trying to convince other people of its merits can make you feel like a Jehovah’s Witness. If we’re honest about it, most of us do not welcome book recommendations. Sometimes it seems that there is no more annoying pair of sentences than “You should read this book. You’d really like it.” The more passionate the endorsement, the more suspect it becomes. The truth is that “You’d really like it” rarely means the speaker has taken into careful consideration your tastes and interests and is suggesting this book accordingly. Instead, it means “I love this book and can’t bear the fact that I have no one to share it with, that the thoughts and emotions it stirred in me are swirling around the confines of my skull like hallucinations. Read it, please, and make me feel less alone.” — Laura Miller, salon.com

Sounds plausible. There may be some truth that this is why people give recommendations, but I like to get them anyway. Maybe I’m just an enabler . . .