I can't stand the presumptuous tone of this article. The author really has no idea which books his audience has read, or when they may have read them, so why i

I can't stand the presumptuous tone of this article. The author really has no idea which books his audience has read, or when they may have read them, so why is he talking down to us? I happen to agree that some of those books are really good, but the tone of the article is so annoying I won't do more than skim through the list.