Ten years from now, a lot of those kids will be buying my books. May the gods rain blessings upon Harry Potter. Every time I come across a neat bit of storytelling, I file it away. I steal from everybody. Shit, Gabe, reading was never supposed to be for everybody.
Universal literacy is virtually an American invention.
Novels are for people who are comfortable using their brains, and we all know that isn't the whole human race. Reading garbage is no better than watching garbage on TV or any other pointless time-filler. Garbage is garbage, whether it comes on a page or in a game cartridge. Better that than supporting the aforementioned shitty fantasies that crowd the good stuff off the shelves. If this makes me sound like an elitist snob, it's only because I am.