Intellectual Vacuum leads to Neurosis of What it Takes to be a Classic

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Call it the intellectual breakdown of the 21st century. It seems we live in an age where serious authors are shunned and their books burned. Obviously today's ignorant and stupid men and woman can't read a book that is just above their IQ level or perhaps one filled with words that they can't, won't understand. These people want a book to be filled with simple words for their simple minds, and if one is too …

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…shudder to think what kind of novel the next classic will be, and if it will be any good at all. New York Times Book Review. [http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0375726802-0] (Accessed May 9th, 2005) Hooper, Brad. "ProQuest Learning: Literature." ProQuest.com.(Accessed May 9th, 2005) Un-named Reviewer "Bull from the Sea." Barnes & Noble.com.(Accessed May 10th, 2005). Eckhart, Tammy. "The Bull from the Sea (vintage)" Amazon.com.(Accessed May 10th, 2005).