The kids ain't right

Interesting post here about the difficulty high school students had with Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I was in AP/gifted & talented classes with the same cohort for eight years or so and vividly remember one boy proudly stating that he had never read a book all the way through. He was a good to average student in my freshman English class. I'm not sure how he managed that, but those sorts of BS skills are surely evidence of some gift.