Problem and Solution

It's tough enough getting anyone to read these days, let alone young boys. The Wall Street Journal had an article today titled Problem: Boys Don't Like to Read Solution: Books that are Really Gross. The article goes on to extol the virtues of books like Leopold II: Butcher of the Congo, Help! What's Eating My Flesh? and Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger. Apparently, it's much easier to get grade-school aged boys to read if they're grossed out at the same time. Makes sense.

For getting older boys to read, the answer is much simpler, and a lot more pleasing to the eye--nudity!


More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss


World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks


Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons


What to Eat by Marion Nestle


The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle


Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek




See? Don't you feel like reading already?