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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jesus_marley" data-source="post: 1939851" data-attributes="member: 24730">Actually, I said I am surrounded by people who brag about being able to read Hop on Pop.  You are right that it is good that more people read books. What bothers me is that the quality of available reading material has dropped severely. What bothers me more is that functional literacy is becoming as rare as hen's teeth. While more people are indeed reading, the overall number of functionally literate people is exceedingly low.I am truly amazed at just how bad it is sometimes. As an example, my fiance is currently taking a masters degree in English and has the dubious pleasure of marking essays from first year students. I have personally seen essays written in "leet". I have seen an essay that was  literally one five page sentence. I have seen essays where the spelling was so atrocious, it made my eyes ache.I guess you are right on this one. I almost cried yesterday when I was speaking to somebody about the movie I, Robot. They mentioned they didn't like the film. When I told them the book was infinitely better, the looked at me blankly and said, "There is a book?"</blockquote>