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[shadowkat]

Co-worker: No one reads books anymore. Everyone binge-watches television shows. There's so much on.
Me: I do. I read books. And I write them.
Co-worker: You are in the minority.


Sigh.

Please tell this is NOT true. Please, please tell me that I am not in the minority!

Anyone???


If I were to rank my cultural interests they would remain:

1. Books
2. Music
3. Live Theater and Dance
4. Television/Film

I can live without TV. I have before. I cannot live without books. It took me forever to figure out how to read. I desperately wanted to. I could escape into the books, into another world, and cast the characters as I saw fit. Hear them in my head. Skip ahead. Skim. No commericals. Complete control.
And I could tell myself stories, spin them.

Books teach you empathy. They take you into someone else's head. I love them. You can read them anywhere.

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

Hmmm. I watch far, far more tv anymore than I read books. And I don't really feel apologetic about that, though I am trying to get back into reading more because I do love it.

Weirdly, if you forced me to choose only one, I think I would have to go with books, possibly for the reasons you state: I have lived without tv (mostly) and thus can imagine living that way again. But I have never not had books.

[shadowkat]

I'm about even at the moment. Many of my co-workers watch tv at lunch or on their commute on various gadgets. I can't stand watching television on gadgets, because I need the screen to be at least three or four feet from my face. So, I read and write at lunch time and on my commute. (We all take subways and trains to work, no one really drives, except for maybe three or four people. It's cheaper and easier to take the train, partly because our organization provides railroad transportation for free.)

I'm not reading great literature or anything. And don't get me wrong, I love television. Just, as a writer of books, I'd prefer people read them? LOL!