Great! Harry Potter! It's got kids READING again! - Page 5

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 12:43pm

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Originally Posted by Evapilotone

Could the same then be said for those that read loads, but don't read alot and watches a little?

How can you read loads and not read a lot, I thought you'd just cocked up your post but Rachael seemed to understand it?

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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Hmmm.

Maybe.

Reading books is kinda like living in a wee bubble.

I read loads of books but I dont watch much tv, and as such have a pretty good imagination but very little grasp of current affairs.

I tend to read when I'm out and about (Very rarely go out without a book) but I can't see myself doing this watching television.

Bunnylingus · 27th August 2008, 12:45pm

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Originally Posted by Hammer

Read more newspapers

Fuck that. They depress the utter shit out of me.

I just dont find current affairs that important, I enjoy my wee bubble.

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

But, TV gives one an infinitely greater idea of what, for example, a lion stalking and catching an antelope actually looks like than does a natural history book.

A writer can pen beautiful prose to describe an area of outstanding natural beauty, but seeing its reality is a different thing entirely. Not that the prose is somehow worse, it's just different. Serves a different function.

Which doubtless means that important parts of my imagination have come from watching tv. Im not disagreeing here at all really.

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

I tend to read when I'm out and about (Very rarely go out without a book) but I can't see myself doing this watching television.

I prefer reading to pretty much anything, I've always got 3 books on the go so that when I inevitably lose one, there's still 2 more to plough through.

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 12:47pm

Wasn't my point, I tend to read socially and am more than capable of reading a book while watching whats going on around me.

No bubble here.

Hammer · 27th August 2008, 12:48pm

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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Fuck that. They depress the utter shit out of me.

I just dont find current affairs that important, I enjoy my wee bubble.

There are some really depressing books out there.

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 12:51pm

Fiction is rarely more depressing than reality.

Evapilotone · 27th August 2008, 12:56pm

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

How can you read loads and not read a lot, I thought you'd just cocked up your post but Rachael seemed to understand it?

I just switched the situation Rachael gave around.

*LesMTS* · 27th August 2008, 12:58pm

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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

I read loads of books but I dont watch much tv, and as such have a pretty good imagination but very little grasp of current affairs.

Pick a story that looks like it's going to go on for a while and follow it. Don't even read a whole newspaper, just read the story you've picked every day. You'll be surprised how quickly you get wrapped up in it, and want to know what's going to happen next, just like serialised fiction.
Recommended right now: the US presidential contest and Russia acting all badass.

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 12:59pm

I found that after while reading newpapers just made me feel complicit in my governments actions to a sickening degree.

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Originally Posted by Evapilotone

I just switched the situation Rachael gave around.

But how can you read loads and not read a lot?

Evapilotone · 27th August 2008, 1:01pm

I meant could the same be said for those that read loads but don't read alot anf watch a little.

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 1:02pm

I must be missing some fundamental component of your sentence that makes it makes sense.

How can you read loads, but not read a lot?

Evapilotone · 27th August 2008, 1:05pm

I'll rephrase.

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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

I think what people's problem is the AMOUNT of time some kids devote to tv - watching lots of it as opposed to watching some and reading a little is surely not as good for them?

Could the same be said then for those who read lots of it as opposed to reading some and watching a little.

MarkMono · 27th August 2008, 1:08pm

Ah, right, thank you (That was driving me nuts)

I disagree, as was made plain by the posts following Rachaels, but this is overwhelmed by the feeling of relaxation that I can now understand what that sentence is supposed to mean.

Hammer · 27th August 2008, 1:08pm

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Originally Posted by Evapilotone

I'll rephrase.

Could the same be said then for those who read lots of it as opposed to reading some and watching a little.

Television isn't known for helping kids improve their literacy skills, especially not when presenters talk as if they've been lobotomised.

Evapilotone · 27th August 2008, 1:13pm

So true.

Bunnylingus · 27th August 2008, 1:27pm

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

Wasn't my point, I tend to read socially and am more than capable of reading a book while watching whats going on around me.

No bubble here.

I love my bubble. I get too wrapped up to notice things.

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Originally Posted by Hammer

There are some really depressing books out there.

Which I dont read.

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

Pick a story that looks like it's going to go on for a while and follow it. Don't even read a whole newspaper, just read the story you've picked every day. You'll be surprised how quickly you get wrapped up in it, and want to know what's going to happen next, just like serialised fiction.
Recommended right now: the US presidential contest and Russia acting all badass.

Doesn't work for me, I get confused by all the diferent information and in all honesty, I have very little interest in most of it.

I'll read up on films etc, but thats about it.