Literacy

Every time I get caught up in my thought's of America's exclusivity, I read something like this that brings me back down to earth: 

Bible is America's favorite book

Somehow we manage to prosper despite...

The first thing that comes to mind is that I would wager 90% of the idiots who responded "the Bible" never read the thing.  Honestly, its antiquated writing style and abundance of parables and the like does not exactly cater to the kind of folks who rated Dan Brown novels as the #2.  As an aside, I just could not believe how bad the writing was in The DaVinci Code.  I was given a copy by a friend when I was in China and it was so bad I thought I had a pirated version that had somehow been typed wrong.  Then I checked a version in the US and it was the same. 

 

Comments

[Matthew G. Saroff]

Funny comment on Dan Brown.