[jimbokun]

TLDR: Western Europeans are dumber than an American 6th grader.

[Fricken]

I read my first Stephen King novel in grade 6. That seems to me more than sufficient aptitude for reading the things an average person needs to read to get through life.

[autoexec]

Was it assigned to you in school? Just because you read something in the sixth grade doesn't mean it was written at a 6th grade level.

[Fricken]

The assignment was to read lots, and lots of 6th graders read Stephen King, because that was the cool thing to do. The size of a typical Stephen King novel is intimidating but the writing is usually straightforward and clear.