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Annadog40 said
I don’t get why people are so down on TV and videogames
Because it’s not something they enjoy so must be inferior to the things they do enjoy?
I’ve seen lots of videogames with far better stories than anything in Harry P.
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Offline Some kid died a few days back……..he’d been playing a video game for 22 days almost non-stop. DVT apparently.
………So OK not great for your health…….but perhaps that could be said for books too……
The other point is that these games can become powerfully obsessive/compulsive……..so they must be hugely enjoyable. I remember watching my son play guitar hero for the first time……He was instantly hooked. I had a go and got hooked too.
They are here to stay. I’m not sure books are.
Kindle means that perhaps in another generation people will say, “What are books for? Oh I know they are those things that you put on shelves”
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Some kid died a few days back……..he’d been playing a video game for 22 days almost non-stop. DVT apparently.
Have everything in moderation. Alcohol kills far more people then video games.
The other point is that these games can become powerfully obsessive/compulsive
Everything can be powerfully obsessive/compulsive, books, movies, TV, anime.
And books aren’t going away any time soon. They might be more online then their are now but people will still like to read. Reading is a wonderful way of experiencing a story.
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As regards Harry Potter and the dislike of some forum members of it, I think to truly get into the “Potter scene” you need to have been either a child or a teenager when they came out or you read it alongside children (like a parent, teacher, aunt/uncle whatnot). Of course there are always exceptions.
Reading the first two now in my late-teens, I notice how the writing isn’t really that great. It’s just the magic and wonder in the tale that keeps on bringing me back to those books again and again. I’ve been reading Harry Potter over-and-over again since I was 7 so I’ve obviously got some nostalgic connection to it.
This video always makes me tear up- Harry Potter really was a large part of my childhood and as I grow up I’ll still read the books hundreds of times over.
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Offline As everyone says everything can be in moderation. Nothing wrong with watching tv or playing video game. However i would argue that books spark your mind in a way that film and video games dont; same as with radio v tv. Again nothing wrong with any of them.
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1 November 2013
Offline Film, TV and Video Games do spark your mind and make you think and push people to creative heights just like books. People create stuff based off film, books, movies, Video Games, Theater and many other types of entertainment formats.
It is because Books are the oldest of them that it get’s the most positive vibes.
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Offline If you dont have the images in front of you then your imagination is pushed more to picture the events yourself. There is a reason why a lot of the time folk will say the book is better than the film.
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Offline But on the other end, you don’t get thoughts in a movie so you have to infer what they are thinking since you only see what they are doing. And lots of books have pictures on the front.
It’s a different kinda of imagination. Their is more to imagining then thinking about what they look like.
Some books aren’t as good as the movie.
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Offline Annadog40 said
I don’t get why people are so down on TV and videogames
I think it may be that they have an addictive quality which tends to suck you in, more so than books do generally (unless you’re like me and find it physically taxing to put a book down until the ‘what happens next’ has been found out). And like anything, too much is too much.
And @Wigwam, I think you misunderstand me. Not only do I not mind assigned reading (saves me the trouble of finding good books to read, myself) but I enjoy classics. So keep your sympathy for a worthier object… I require it not. 
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Offline Annadog40 said
Some books aren’t as good as the movie.
Like Forrest Gump, I love the film but the book is meh.
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Offline meanmistermustard said
As everyone says everything can be in moderation. Nothing wrong with watching tv or playing video game. However i would argue that books spark your mind in a way that film and video games dont; same as with radio v tv. Again nothing wrong with any of them.
Not everyone.
I’m not interested in anyone else’s ideas of moderation and how much time I should spend enjoying time doing things; including reading – we often hear about books “you can’t put down” and generally consider this a positive thing and yet the same thing said about TV or video games is bad??
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Some kid died a few days back……..he’d been playing a video game for 22 days almost non-stop. DVT apparently.………So OK not great for your health…….but perhaps that could be said for books too……
The other point is that these games can become powerfully obsessive/compulsive……..so they must be hugely enjoyable. I remember watching my son play guitar hero for the first time……He was instantly hooked. I had a go and got hooked too.
They are here to stay. I’m not sure books are.
Kindle means that perhaps in another generation people will say, “What are books for? Oh I know they are those things that you put on shelves”
Let me go thru this and explain my words a little better…..
My first point is that someone actually died and the death is attributed to playing an online game non-stop for 22 days causing a DVT.
Conclusion….’So OK not great for your health………’But perhaps the same could be said of books’
What I was hoping a reader would draw from this……..Was…..Shock that someone actually died playing for 22 days non-stop is EXTREME! But also it was my attempt at balance……It’s not video games or books that are bad per-say…just taking your interest in them or almost anything else to such an extreme is.
As Anna helpfully says……Have everything in moderation. Alcohol kills far more people then video games.
I’m in agreement as that was my point……So to re-iterate I’m not down on games…….not down on books!
I continue…..It follows that these games can be powerfully compulsive so they must be huge fun and easy to become hooked on. Because of this they are here to stay…..But perhaps the days of books are numbered…….
I didn’t mean to suggest that books aren’t huge fun too but because more and more is being done online….It’s becoming more the norm that fiction and non-fiction are published and purchased online….and then read on kindles or tablets.
Then Anna says……”And books aren’t going away any time soon.”
Now if by books Anna means fiction then I agree. If by books Anna means Books then I’m not sure they will be around much longer.
Her next sentence suggests she does indeed mean holding a physical book and that actual books will survive……She says: “They might be more online then their are now but people will still like to read. Reading is a wonderful way of experiencing a story.”
Of course people will still like to read and of course reading is a wonderful way to experience a story……??
I, like Anna, prefer books to kindles …..But the trend is not good in that respect. As the generations that grew up with books by the bed is slowly sent to the great Librarian in the Sky..And the generations that succeed grow more accustomed to tens of thousands of books available at the touch of a button……..Stored in Clouds, or HDs…..No clutter……no need for trees to die anymore for our pleasure…….It’s catching on.
But maybe there’s hope for books…..(remember not to be confused with fiction which will last as long as we do)…..When 100 years from now and it all looks done dusted………Just as vinyl is making a comeback maybe books will be seen as a great retro experience.
Finally yes Silly Girl I did misunderstand your ‘mawahaha’….even though you clarified it with a 55555……..
…..I really have no bloody excuse do I?…555
I think I was projecting my own feelings when I saw my assigned reading list 45 years ago…….
Long live the Book……..Long live the Video game…….Long live Anna and her Dog…….Long live her Silliness!
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It’s written in a Kerry dialect and I speak/write the Connemara/Greater Munster form of Irish so it’s fun looking at the spelling differences e.g.
How I would spell ‘here’ in Irish, ‘anseo’, how they spell ‘here’ in the book ‘anso’ and so on and so forth.
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Currently reading “The Dead & The Gone”. It’s basically the other side of the book “Life As We Knew It” that I just finished reading. The moon gets knocked out of orbit, and then extreme climate changes occur, and many people either die or leave the area (which might explain the title “The Dead & The Gone”).
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I, like Anna, prefer books to kindles …..But the trend is not good in that respect. As the generations that grew up with books by the bed is slowly sent to the great Librarian in the Sky.
*snip, snip, snip, snip, snip*
Two thoughts immediately flashed in my mind when I saw that: is @Ahhh Girl OK?; and, I wonder if the Librarian in the Sky has diamonds?
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