tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638686372357269034.post5955406711161118600..comments2023-11-07T00:18:36.694-08:00Comments on Fancy Prose Style: Possible Reasons for the Decline of Readership.Slothrophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05260871930263825748noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638686372357269034.post-45070481098817331492009-02-02T18:33:00.000-08:002009-02-02T18:33:00.000-08:00Yes yes, the past few years have been terrible 'Ho...Yes yes, the past few years have been terrible 'Hollywood' film years. I agree [As a film major, it's highly disappointing!] Same goes with the telly. And since this isn't a film studies course, I won't even go into the "film canon" and what has been worth note these past few years.<BR/><BR/>I think most everything has already been told- beginning to end. Sports are as predictable as a book. Someone wins, someone loses, and someone will get injured. Same with a book- it will start with one Letter and end with one Punctuation Mark. It's everything in the middle that keeps the Sports Fans going to games, and keeps the Readers in the books. I'm not into sports- so everything you said (save the Phelps comment) meant absolutely nothing to me. Now if I were to sit a person down and tell them about everything from my favorite book "The Loved One," would it mean anything to them [if they had not read it, or even heard of its author]? I see where you are leading the point of focus, but I don't think they can be compared fairly- I think it discredits both of them in some way.<BR/><BR/>Shakespeare might have been an amazing rapper- but he used what was available. We have so many ways of expressing ourselves (text messaging, Twitter, blogs, Facebook, email-little snippets here and there) so it's easy to look down upon the book. But I think as long as people are reading [in some capacity] there will be books. I don't think books are the "supreme" medium. I think storytelling is. Writing, art, music, tweeting, sports.....it's all storytelling. Because when the electricity goes out and your iPod is dead- what do you do? I bet you tell some story.Samihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111465089477955470noreply@blogger.com