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This is something that has been on my mind for a long while now. I am sick of all of the hate that literature gets by people in today's world. It really pisses me off when people treat reading as something stupid and boring. Seriously, it annoys the hell out of me how dumbed down the world is today. Seriously people, you have limitless knowledge at your fingertips through this magical thing called the internet but god forbid that you actually take time to sit down and seek it out. I believe that one of the things contributing to this little problem is how reading has suddenly become "uncool" or some similar bull****. I mean god****, if people actually took the time to sit down to enjoy a good story more of us might actually know what these mysterious things like "character development" or "good plot structure" is. Although I'm sure that James Cameron wouldn't want people reading because if they did Avatar wouldn't have made all of that money that it didn't deserve.
This is a list of ten famous, well-known authors and some of their work:
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Robert Luis Stevenson - Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World, A Study in Scarlet
HP Lovecraft - The Call of Cuthulu, Azathoth
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot, The End of Eternity
Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days
Bram Stoker - Dracula, The Jewel of Seven Stars
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
If you are not familiar with any of these people, and/or haven't read any of the books listed, you need to go out and do so. Honestly, people act like you need to be old and boring to enjoy books but you really don't have to go outside your interests to enjoy one. For instance, if you're a Castlevania fan you could check out the original story by reading Dracula, or a Prince of Persia fan might be interested in A Thousand and One Nights. Books are filled with various themes and stories that relate to similar themes within games. There are games about epic fantasy adventures (Zelda, Elder Scrolls) there are books and epic fantasy adventures (pretty much every high fantasy book ever written, ever), the same goes for horror, science fiction, just about everything.
So here's the point of this brief little rant, forget what television and your buddies have told you. Books can be interesting and entertaining, so head down to your local used book store and look for something that you're interested in. You might be surprised.
This is something that has been on my mind for a long while now. I am sick of all of the hate that literature gets by people in today's world. It really pisses me off when people treat reading as something stupid and boring. Seriously, it annoys the hell out of me how dumbed down the world is today. Seriously people, you have limitless knowledge at your fingertips through this magical thing called the internet but god forbid that you actually take time to sit down and seek it out. I believe that one of the things contributing to this little problem is how reading has suddenly become "uncool" or some similar bull****. I mean god****, if people actually took the time to sit down to enjoy a good story more of us might actually know what these mysterious things like "character development" or "good plot structure" is. Although I'm sure that James Cameron wouldn't want people reading because if they did Avatar wouldn't have made all of that money that it didn't deserve.
This is a list of ten famous, well-known authors and some of their work:
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Robert Luis Stevenson - Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World, A Study in Scarlet
HP Lovecraft - The Call of Cuthulu, Azathoth
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot, The End of Eternity
Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days
Bram Stoker - Dracula, The Jewel of Seven Stars
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
If you are not familiar with any of these people, and/or haven't read any of the books listed, you need to go out and do so. Honestly, people act like you need to be old and boring to enjoy books but you really don't have to go outside your interests to enjoy one. For instance, if you're a Castlevania fan you could check out the original story by reading Dracula, or a Prince of Persia fan might be interested in A Thousand and One Nights. Books are filled with various themes and stories that relate to similar themes within games. There are games about epic fantasy adventures (Zelda, Elder Scrolls) there are books and epic fantasy adventures (pretty much every high fantasy book ever written, ever), the same goes for horror, science fiction, just about everything.
So here's the point of this brief little rant, forget what television and your buddies have told you. Books can be interesting and entertaining, so head down to your local used book store and look for something that you're interested in. You might be surprised.