boo Twilight

The author points out that there are people other than middle schoolers that buy such novels like the Twilight series. He's stating that teenagers and college students aren't reading classic literature as they should. Books like Twilight are being placed in top 10 books to read lists. Students are reading what's just popular now. I think this article is aiming towards teenagers because it's our "problem" in our generation. I agree with David Farber and Mike Conney though. Farber was stating that a reasonable explanaiton would be that people, not pre-teens, are trying to hold onto their childhood. People are using the time to just read for pleasure, not really getting real classics. Teenagers are so wrapped into the pop culture and that makes them forget about classics and reading good literature. It's all about the next cool thing. Twilight was a huge thing, a big hype, and so it got people's attention better than something near non-existent these days to alot of people, like a book of Donald Barthelme's.