I am so not going to finish my summer reading. I am only halfway through my first book. That books is The Fountainhead and it is kinda long. Someone recently made fun of The Fountainhead and said it and Catcher in the Rye are the two big books that teenagers name drop to sound intellectually hip. I have never read Catcher in the Rye but I can see that. The book is okay I guess. I really really really disagree with Ayn Rand I think. I'm not going to go into that now. I'm going to start name dropping Tom Clancy books and see if that gets me any Lit cred. It is kind of sad that the intellectual value of a book can be diminished just because people use it to sound cool. I need to stop hanging out with kids who think books are cool. I think that is the big problem. Since when were books cool? I think I'm gonna change the "books" section of my Facebook "about me" to:
"lol who read books?"
or
"fuck reading and shit"
or
"i like everything except country and rap"
I guess its impossible to be actually cool and intellectual. I think I'm gonna go put in some Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor and go watch some Wes Anderson Flicks. Right after I put down this great Bukowski book I'm reading. Is it still cool to eat thai food?
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