Wednesday, April 6, 2011
blog #9
A world without books would be a horrible, probably dimwitted place. Books open up a world inside our minds that challenge our imagination and creativity. In a world without books, most stories would probably be told by word of voice, or converted into a t.v show of some sort. How dim and uncreative we would be if every story we heard was displayed in front of us, no reading, no imagination, nothing but flickering lights and a talking box. I for one would greatly miss books, if you had asked me this a year ago i would most definitely have a far different answer, i appreciate books due to the fact that when you read the story everyone has a different image of the characters, how they talk, how they sound, smell, etc.. As an art major books have been a great inspiration to some of my more representational art. Unfortunately we have already started book burning. T.V has replaced books, most books now are being turned into movies so someone can just watch a movie and say that they know what has happened in the book. Wrong. books have so much more detail, emotion, and power. I can foresee in the future there wont be a paperback book, youll have to read books online or watch a movie rendition. This saddens me greatly.
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"i appreciate books due to the fact that when you read the story everyone has a different image of the characters, how they talk, how they sound, smell, etc.." I always hate reading a book and having this image in my head of characters and then seeing the movie and they are completely different
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ReplyDeleteLike I had talked about in my blog, the attention to detail present in books lacks greatly when it is turned into a movie. This reminds me of the Twilight series--I hear the books are great, but the movies are absolutely terrible in comparison (no thanks to Kristen Stewart)
I think it's funny because I got a nook for Christmas and have been using it for my books. It's wonderful because I have my whole library on it and can buy books whenever I feel like it. But, I do like paperback books more--I think it's the feel and smell of them that technology could never recreate.
Also, I don't know if you listen to Pandora radio, but there's a commercial that says something along the lines of "Don't have time to read a book? Try an audiobook instead!" I'm sorry, but if someone doesn't have time to read a book, they sure as hell don't have the time to listen to someone read it to them! (:
I agree, TV is making us dumb. Lets face it, anything educational on tv, sucks.
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