A Study of Reading Habits

Going straight to the last line in the final stanza of the poem 'books are a load of crap' you just get the wrong idea because it is about someone who works in a library you expect them to want to read books so you know that is obviously a joke that Larkin has done through the persona. The book is the way the persona in the poem uses to escape from the world and get away from real life. In the final stanza it just shows again how Larkin is using different situations to express disappointment in life. Since growing up even the book has changed because he has grown up, the books haven't changed but he has.