As reported by the the Daily News, during his recent UN Address, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez held up a book by Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance,” and recommended it to everyone in the General Assembly, as well as to the American people, saying “The people of the United States should read this … instead of the watching Superman movies.”
This has had an unexpected side effect: the book jumped into the top 10 of Amazon, where it was ranked 20,664 the day before, and of Barnes & Noble.com, from a previous ranking of 748. Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt, has ordered an additional paperback printing of 25,000 copies.
Gentlemen and Ladies, I present to you… The Hugo Chavez Book Club.
I wonder what he’ll recommend next. Probably something related to Satanism. I wonder what the members of Oprah’s Club will think.
But it probably doesn’t make a difference anyway. After all, no one is reading anymore. We’re too busy watching all those TVs in our houses.
