College students like Dan Brown

Jan 23 2010, Written by Andrew Hibbard in Culture,Literature,Playground, 1 Comments

America’s college students, considered yourself judged.

A report in The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals that college students aren’t that different from the rest of America in terms of literary taste.  The report indicates that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was the most read purchased book in the month of November among college students. Superfreakonomics, Stephanie Meyers’ Eclipse, The Time Traveler’s Wife and Precious (the movie tie-in of the book Push) round out the top five. So much for all those scholarly texts.

What does this mean? Commenter bfrank1 (Barney Frank?!?) puts it nicely:

“Wow, that’s impressive. I’m not worried about our future anymore, that’s for sure. Now I’m certain.”

Then again, given the rush regulation’s of Cornell’s Pi Phis or Yale’s latest admissions tactic (or this blog), was there ever any doubt to begin with?