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Originally Posted by Ea
Good question. How would you define literature. I almost answered 'no' to your question, but then realised I wasn't certain that I wouldn't call graphic novels 'literature'. But on the other hand, it's also a thing into itself. You have to take the images into account when evaluating it, so graphic novels can't be compared 'straight' to written books. I do think though, that the stories being partly imagined visually does not make them worth less than written fiction. You 'read' images' just as much as you read words. Those images are not 'illustrations', they *are* the story in themselves. The best is created by visual artists who are no lesser artists than authors may be. As an example, I think it would have been possible to write Persepolis as a novel, but the artwork itself adds so much to the story (not that the artwork in Persepolis is outstanding - but it does relay so much that it would take many to tell).
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Exactly.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I think it's more just the tone. Calling some reading junk. The attack on graphic novels (and I don't even read them) not being literature.
Stuff like that kind of takes away from the topic at hand--what people gain from reading, whether that varies by what they read etc.
I'm not a big believer in reading--at least fiction reading--shaping a person's thought process, values, beliefs etc. But that's just my bias from growing up on movies, tv, sports and video games and still enjoying all those more than reading.
Hell, it's ridiculous I waste so much time here procrastinating work, talking about what's a very minor hobby with me. So with that realization I think I'll take a break from the site for a while, if not permanently.
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First of all, I was not "attacking" graphic novels. I made it very clear it was my own bias. I could care less what people read. I made a comment, tried to explain why I felt that way.
Your statement about your own bias towards reading because of growing up the way you did, speaks volumes.
There is a huge difference between someone who grew up with a passionate love of books, and someone who just "isn't a big believer in reading fiction".
As for taking a break from this site? I haven't found anything in this thread thats even came close to being objectionable. Except for the op's link to the article.
No one has 'flamed out', and I haven't even gotten my stick out.
