When you read more, you acquire a wealth of knowledge. When you acquire more knowledge, you become more interesting. This allows you to better engage with everyone around you. Reading gets you into circles beyond the understanding of your friends, acquaintances and even passers-by. But, when these people don’t quite understand exactly how you acquired all of this knowledge, they begin to conjure up impossible scenarios for your new-found knowledge. Rarely do they pin it down to reading the right books that make you unexpectedly interesting.