Thread: What 20th Century Writers do you think will still be read 100 years from now?
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Old 11-13-2009, 03:52 PM   #75
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I didn't see Harper Lee mentioned, but I scrolled the thread pretty quickly. She deserves multiples anyway!

I just read To Kill a Mockingbird this summer. Absolutely one of the best books I've ever read, and shocked to discover it was her only book!

I've actually tried to discuss the book with several people. Universal response, "Oh, I had to read that in school." End of conversation.

I appreciated it, but I read it for enjoyment. However, being forced to read it -- or probably any book -- seems to be detrimental to the experience. As an example, I still can't stand my 9th Grade assigned The Good Earth..

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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
It will be horrible for most of us looking from the now into the future, but I can't see how the concept of authorship can survive a connected and real-time world. Look now at the most popular form of fiction; the video game. There's no author of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Batman: Arkham Asylum, and as those fictional experiences become more immersive, the creator/audience will blur into one another. Characters will survive, they always do. There are plenty of people now who can tell you who Sherlock Holmes is without knowing his creator. Everyone knows Batman too, but I bet there are very few people who can tell you the creator's name.

Again, it's not something I'm happy about, but I can't see how writing/reading as a form of pleasure will survive.
Video games are certainly progressing in their storytelling capability, but they're far more akin to a movies than books. They're more group efforts. They have a writer(s), a director(s), animators, story boards, cut scenes, etc. Everything inherited from making movies. And while I enjoy a good story, many games are just fun for the interactive aspect. Witness the multiplayer experience. Halo and COD had good storylines, but were heralded for their online play, and that has no story aspect at all.

So I really don't see that games and books are at all similar. And given that books have survived and thrived in the era of film, I don't think games pose any sort of threat at all.

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