become a genius

I have a long list of books I will read this year and this summer, but the books I want to read now include….

Gulliver’s Travels
Nicholas Nickleby…maybe
Both of Barack Obama’s books
Tyler Perry’s as well
Motocycle Diaries

Yes, that should be it…well I go to the bookstore this weekend, it should work.

It would be nice to be really smart and know more than someone for once. My school is really competitive and filled with overachieving smart kids so naturally, I’ve devloped this stupidity complex in which I feel mentally inferior and dumb in general. What am I to do?
I guess I can just read a lot of books from now on; that’s how most people I know have become as smart as they are, in fact that’s one of the only ways that people really become intelligent! Is it so easy?