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Kids Will Read Gossip Girl, But They Won't Listen To Other People Reading It

Richard Lawson · 08/18/08 01:02PM

Don't worry. Those gangly things who smell weird and never talk to you that live in your house are actually reading books (not just blogs and texts and IMs!) Teenagers, as we know, do nothing but think about Gossip Girl all day long (if I, at 25, am an example of your typical teenager), whether it be the teen soap on the CW or the books. Yes, books! There have been 5.6 million copies of the 12-installment series sold to our braced-teeth gnashing youth, only 30,000 of which featured the television show's cast on the cover. They don't care if it's just a book! What little grownups. But, um, they're not little old people: