Writing for The Guardian, Zoe Williams is horrified - HORRIFIED! - to learn that British Members of Parliament plan to read The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter 6 on summer vacation. But remember, it’s not snobbery if your book choices make her think that you are a retard:
Back to the fiction: on face value these choices suggest an extremely low IQ. This isn’t a question of literary snobbery, of failing to understand the joy of an undemanding read. It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve been working; if you can find pleasure and, more importantly, diversion in a book that has been written with deliberate preteen simplicity, a very low level of ambiguity and an emphasis on dog-level clarity (Yes! No! Good! Bad!) then you are not very bright.
What an asshole.