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

[showwyourteeth.livejournal.com]

AGREED!
and thankyou again for writing what we're all thinking very well.
And no more 'Go Ask Alice' please. Most teenagers read it because they think it gives them some depth, and perhaps, a brain.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Never heard of 'Go Ask Alice'. Maybe it's just a Canadian thing?

[showwyourteeth.livejournal.com]

well then you know it must have started in America =P