Can You Name a Book? ANY Book???

According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, almost one in four Americans has not read a book in the past year. So to find out if that is true, we sent a team to the street to ask pedestrians to name a book, and here are the very sad results.




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Can You Name a Book? ANY Book???

[chinmaya]

A moment of silence for the many people who named a book but didn't make it on to this video...

[BournetoRead]

Tbf the guy that said The Jungle Book was right it is a book by Rudyard Kipling

[damosanchex]

They 100 percent just cut out the people who don't panic

[midori]

The Librarian can definitely name a book. I think people’s minds just go blank when they’re put on the spot.

[megansimpson]

Even if you don't read, I don't see how you couldn't think of any name of a book.

[Dgm-oevm]

Incredible how people couldn’t even say like Harry Potter or something

[jasonwong]

They should've cut into between the videos to show that one guy who couldn't stop naming books

[merissamakesstuff]

Side note: I read 3-15 books a month and blanked when the video played. I spend 1-5 hours a day reading. I'm currently reading three books. I imagine at least the librarian just blanked.

[ripapa]

"I was a librarian, now I'm unemployed"
Sounds about right after seeing this.

[Zilray]

and when the camera turned off 5 book titles came in their minds

[cassieosbourne]

In fairness, "The Jungle Book" is a book

[orangesheep]

Haha I remember one time a psychology therapist went to our school to check us kids and when they talked to me to find out if I'm mentally stable to be there they asked me about my favorite subjects. I told them that I love literature. Then they asked me to name some books. They didn't give me any explanations. I was confused because I didn't know if they want me to name something from school program or something I enjoy. I was so anxious and all my classmates were there, which made me even more anxious, so I don't even remember now if I said anything properly. I love reading by the way! So I understand these poor people

[soup]

Cameraman: "Can you name a book?"

Me: "Yes."

*walks off*

[MostBelovedMonster]

No one said the Bible?
I'm not even religious, but come on people.

[cevewr]

this is THE SADDEST video I’ve seen recently

[TheBestSam]

I think this has totally been cherry-picked to an extreme degree like they were probably just stressed or freaking out

[TanakaMatsumoto]

How does a former librarian not remember any title of any book? Well I guess it shows why she's no longer one...

[rokuwhitefox]

"I'm surrounded by idiots." - Scar

[dilberttaint]

People aren’t this dumb. People just get really nervous when you ask them a super generic question while they are getting recorded by a huge camera and have a microphone on them. They just blanked.

[nintendoman]

"Can you name a book? "
Me: starts naming every book from the 1990s