There are of course profound moral and psychological truths to be found in great literature. It's perhaps the most important criterion for actually being “great literature.” However, I'm also putoff by how often a passion for reading is leveraged as a signal of morally upstanding characters. This bothers me more in film, novels, etc than in real life because I see it used more lazily in those settings. Nonetheless, seems like we need some cultural representation of very bad no-good bibliophiles.