WHAT are you reading right now?

[Sethomas]

I read that back in '02 for a Social Science class. The professor thought that we needed to be rounded out by something contemporary. I loved it, but the writing is banal and predictable. All journalistic articles of the past decade have the exact same structure to them (NOT the inverted pyramid), and Schlosser begins each and every chapter like he's doing a human interests piece in US Weekly. I guess it's because modern Americans don't like reading about facts and figures unless they're written as being one investigator's quest for the truth, which incidentally happens to be a bunch of facts and figures.