Literacy
a trendy reading list? who shapes what they read by what's popular? music is one thing, many people listen or claim to listen to what is popular. but to start to judge someone's level of hipness based on what they take out from the library is taking this crazy thing to new levels. maybe by using the word 'library' i have just been dismissed from all good society? should purchasing the book full price from an independent bookshop have been more down with the kids? are certain people bad or uninteresting because of their unability or lack of desire to keep up to the minute with pop culture or hipster culture? are those of us who read whatever looks interesting instead of what we should be seen reading on the train not as smart as those of us who automatically head for whatever book was seen more than once at the organic coffee shop? understandable is the fact that books on the best seller list might just have some worth behind them. if they were horribly written pieces of shite than not so many people would have bought and read them. the da vinci code, girl with a pearl earing, gallileo's daughter....all might have been extremely good books, i've yet to flick through the pages. someone told me my choices from the library weren't trendy today. i didn't go to the library intentionally to increase my social standing. i've never thought of books as fashion accessories before. kids these days. when i was young we wouldn't be seen dead with a book! 'you can read???i saw that book in your bag?'-'nu-uh! i can't read. i don't know what you talkin' bout,' and so on and so forth. now if you haven't read david sedaris and nick hornby and can't compare catcher in the rye to igby goes down i pity your soul in the pits of a williamsburg party. amen. what a disorganised rant. ridiculously pissed off am i. the nerve. hmf.