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Originally Posted by queentess
Ditto for books. The good stuff is rare, no matter the medium.
Sometimes I read just for enjoyment, not for some sort of enlightenment. I also sometimes watch movies just for the enjoyment. It doesn't have to the The Godfather to be enjoyable or viewable multiple times. Not to mention it's a much lesser time commitment to watch a 2 hour movie than reread my favorite 12-book 1,000-page-each fantasy series.
Asimov? I enjoy his writing, but The King of Space Opera probably isn't your best defense here.
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Yeah I would put the work of Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov above that of George Lucas and James Cameron, yes. More of their fantasies about future events have come true than many others. Beyond that I consider 5-15 hours of enjoyable story for a quarter of the cost of a DVD a value.
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?? So it's ok to pirate movies but not ok to pirate books?
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Now you are making an inference that I did not present; great way to start an argument; bad way to make a point. I simply said I respect the works of authors over those of the typical Hollywood type. To make it clearer for the slow folk, I could care less about movie or music piracy (since I have nothing to do with it) as they have the means and obvious will to protect themselves. I do not see book authors afforded the same protection and so was asking if there was some avenue for them to get recompense when something of theirs gets pirated. So I prefer to support authors than all of the big music and movie houses combined. Shoot me. I stand by my convictions.
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The exact same thing happens in the publishing world. For instance, the recent rash of vampire stories spawned by the popular Twilight series. Or the flood of wizarding stories after Harry Potter became popular. Or the deluge of Brownesque 'controversial' religious fiction.
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Not that I read any of that; the last good vampire story was penned by Bram Stoker and the last decent one by Anne Rice. As for religious fiction, I had 8 years of that in parochial school
