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Smart Books, Dumb Books

This list is scientifically meaningless, but generally interesting.  I do know that I haven't met many imbeciles who have read Atlas Shrugged, Catch-22, or Lolita.  Most of my favorites did not make the list, since I read almost exclusively non-fiction.  (The only exception is fiction that raises existential questions, like The Road). Freakonomics was breezy reading - not much more challenging than reading US Weekly.  I suppose the answer is that only smart people would be predisposed to reading the book.  It's not finishing the book that correlated with intelligence - it's wanting to read the book in the first place. Also, C.S. Lewis's books "score" poorly, though his work is interesting, insightful, and much more challenging reading than Freakonomics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 27, 2008 (boomark / email).