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Originally Posted by sfernald
Even in Shakespeare's era, people didn't want to read (even if they could, most people probably didn't even know how), they wanted to watch fun plays with music and drama and have the story unfold before them.
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... and get drunk.
We all have to agree that since life is going faster and faster it is difficult to set aside precious time to do some quality entertainment reading. jOb's life must be set at a faster pace than anyone I know. Maybe the people around him are just as frenetic as he is. Or perhaps the next series of devices aPple (I love this Nate
) builds will leave us no time to live as we know it?
As for the younger people, my 25 year old daughter is a library rat and loves books with a passion; yet she oggles my 500 any time she sees it. Unfortunately, she has come to love reading out of voluntary poverty as she prematurely left the comfort of our nest. Since any available entertainment cost something, books became her boredom abaters. She has kept to them and devotes prime time to them. I can not say the same about my 23 year old son. He's a gamer, the next addiction scurge. The only serious book (over 50 pages) he's read is a 'Beers of the World' encyclopedia.
I too for that matter came to books out of necessity. In a kids life, rural summer days without work, tv or companionship can lead to weird things. Fortunately I was presented some litterary jewels that picked me out of trouble and of torturing my neighbor's animals...
