Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.
I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.