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Originally Posted by Sregener
Again, I really think you need to read Jim Trelease's book. There is a snobbery that says that some books are "garbage" and others are "quality." One anecdote he uses is when he asked a mother if her son read. "Oh, never." She said. He poked around. "Comic books?" "No." "Magazines?" "He reads Sports Illustrated every week from cover-to-cover." Trelease then analyzed the complexity of the writing in Sports Illustrated and compared it to broadcast television. The writing in SI was orders of magnitude more complex than what was on television. His point is that what is widely considered "garbage books" (even comic books) is far better than what is considered quality television.
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Some of the best essayists and non-fiction writers of the last century were sports writers. And more than a few fiction writers.
And comics used to be the gateway to Science Fiction for a *lot* of people. Probably a bit less so these days, with SF (both real and pretend) all over TV and the movies but then comics have matured into a "respectable" literary form in their own right.
I will admit that the quality of cereal box writing has declined, though.