If you read this article from G.Q. (a magazine) you’ll know what you shouldn’t read.
It is a listing of overrated books compiled by unrated editors.
Finally!
I can ignore classic literature and feel smug instead of lazy!
Thanks, G.Q.
I wish I had this when I was struggling through High School Lit. class.
I could have told my English teacher, “Catcher In The Rye is without any literary merit whatsoever…so I’m not reading it.”
I’d have had more time for comic books and video games.
On the list of overrated books is, “The Bible”.
It’s not #1 though.
That’s odd.
Seems to me, a book that claims to be the Word of God is more overrated than “Huckleberry Finn”.
But who am I to argue with G.Q. Magazine?
I’m a back-water hayseed who thinks the best way to judge the value of a book is to read it.
So closed-minded.
Too stubborn to let the kids at G.Q. tell me what to read.
I know I’m out of touch.
I don’t need to educate myself anymore.
The opinions of anonymous intellectuals are just a click away.
I just can’t shake the old-fashioned notion that wisdom isn’t found in hip popularity.
It sucks getting old.
Maybe I’ll write a book about that.
Or, I could compile a list of overrated magazines!
I already have an idea for number 1.
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Reading the GQ article makes me feel like I’ve been thrown into the movie, “Idiocracy” for some reason. But, hey, we don’t need to read books at all. We could just watch the Disney version or the History Channel.
I keep thinking of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, and the similar PC groupthink that the G.Q. hack is promoting.
This is a clip from a recent film remake of the book. I liked the original best, but this pretty well illustrates the dangers of what the PC unread are buying into.
Thank you, John, for your blog!
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) – Antisocial Element
Oops, I had been thinking of George Orwell’s “1984”, too, in relation to the horrifying G.Q. piece. Somehow my phone retained the “1984” link and not the “Fahrenheit 451” link.
That’s easily found, though…
“What! What! What!” (screams the bibliophile).
The person who wrote the G.Q. article must be among the most illiterate wretched creatures, endowed with poor reading comprehension and saturated in today’s non-culture P.C. offal….