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Terrified by averages.
Oct. 21st, 2008 | 07:40 pm
Standing next to Waldo at:: Surrounded by fellow Mac users
Feeling kinda: : 
scared
Grooving to: : RnB crap overhead
So I read today that apparently your average USian reads one book a year. Now, I am not a fast reader and probably consume in the range of 20 or so books a year. Given this there are 19 other people out there who don't have to read jack for an entire year. They can hang out on the beach, drink, smoke out, while their fellow outlier is propping them up, making them feel smarter.
I guess that's okay, and if I do run across the illiterates on the beach, I can only hope that rather then grinding me into the sand, they'll stop a moment, recognize through their depressant stupor that I'm the one keeping them free to do as they want so they don't have to bother with that processing words crap.
Oh, and this year has actually been a good year in the book world. If you're going to read anything, here is your list for the next three years of your life, The Last Wish, Generation Kill, and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. As much as I liked all of them I would highly recommend the third. It's a book written for teens how they actually talk, rather than how their parents or Harry Potter wished they'd talk. Or if you're feeling really daring read all three this year, and know that somewhere out there, two more people can lounge on the beach because you've done your part.
I guess that's okay, and if I do run across the illiterates on the beach, I can only hope that rather then grinding me into the sand, they'll stop a moment, recognize through their depressant stupor that I'm the one keeping them free to do as they want so they don't have to bother with that processing words crap.
Oh, and this year has actually been a good year in the book world. If you're going to read anything, here is your list for the next three years of your life, The Last Wish, Generation Kill, and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. As much as I liked all of them I would highly recommend the third. It's a book written for teens how they actually talk, rather than how their parents or Harry Potter wished they'd talk. Or if you're feeling really daring read all three this year, and know that somewhere out there, two more people can lounge on the beach because you've done your part.