3/19- I'm a Lowbrow Reader

Why can't we enjoy some highbrow reading mixed in with the low stuff.  I'm not ashamed to say that I've read War and Peace in the same week as I've read a $2.00 romance paperback ( mostly I just like pirates). And maybe it was more Jane Austen then War and Peace but the premise remains the same!  All literature moves us in some way or form, so why not be able to read the low and the high.  Why even be so elitist as to say that something is low and not high.  How about judging on how fast you want to turn the page, or it's ability to move you out of your head space.  After all, it's unlikely you'd have to reread the same sentence in a dime store romance like you have to in some of these high brows.