November 19, 2007

Shocking New Study

According to a recent 99-page report, you young whippersnappers aren't reading as much as you used to. Or should be. At least that's what the jist of the report is, I don't have the time to read the whole damn thing. But I read enough, and you don't. Don't you remember, Knowledge is Power?

Reading is cool. All of the cool kids are doing it, and what's more, they're doing it naked. Don't you want to be cool?

Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy


The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann


The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor


The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie


One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Here lies a most ridiculous raw youth, indulging himself in the literary graces that he once vowed to eschew. Now he just rocks out.