The Nation's Bad Education

[dotinthesky]

What is worse: to be caught reading The Da Vinci Code on public transport, or one of Dan Brown's other novels? Because to read The Da Vinci Code tells the world that you are a sheep, a lemming with no taste; but to read another Dan Brown novel means that you actually liked The Da Vinci Code.

Other books you should not be caught dead reading on public transport:

• Harry Potter novels (for anyone over 14). Yes, they are pleasurable to read, but reading one in public is like going to work in your Halloween costume. There's a time and place (i.e. your home) for these if you are an adult.
  
• The Dummy's Guide to...
  
• How to Make Friends and Influence People
  
• Chick lit novels (these usually have pink or baby blue covers, with cartoonesque drawings.)
  
• Jehovah Witness pamphlets
  
• Celebrity magazines and trashy tabloids (although it's OK to read The Weekly World News.)
  
• Autobiographies by ex-Big Brother contestants
  

Any other reading material I should add to this list?

Comments

[greenteablack.livejournal.com]

LOL I thought it was funny when the Harry Potter books came out with Adult covers so people wouldn't look like they were reading kids books on the subway. lol

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

they should bring out a version of the books which is actually well written instead, it would be much more useful.

Personally i'd add Stranger in a Strange Land to that list, not because it's a bad book, far from it, but because it caused mad old hippies to approach me on the tube and speak to me about whether i "grokked" it and how much it changed their lives. I would have prefered scientologists actually.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Exactly! They know there's an embarrassment that can be tapped into for money.