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07/11/2005: "Harry Potter and the Dumbing Down of America"
The new Harry Potter book is being released this Friday, and the media is blitzing it. It will most likely sell several million copies in its first few days.
Harry Potter is the literary version of Friends. But at least Friends has Coutney Cox (yumm). So, when will it be that the American public can get excited about anything besides insipid pulp? Where's the Joyce? Where's the Hawthorne? Where's the fucking Quine?
Not all reading is good just because it's reading. You might as well pick up this week's issue of Redbook. It's probably more interesting. And it's got a quiz.