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That’s alarming and sad. No pleasure or drug is as powerful as a good work of fiction.
by magic_beans 8y ago
That’s alarming and sad. No pleasure or drug is as powerful as a good work of fiction.
- azernik 8y agoI have read fiction in the years in question, but most of my fiction consumption lately has been serial TV (by internet). Modulo Sturgeon's Law, the quality in the last decade has gone way up.
- stephengillie 8y agoThis could be said about Game of Thrones in the first book. Sadly, it's not 1996 anymore.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoI don’t think so - web forums and HN itself has taken over a lot of my attention that was once given to books. I still read a book or so a month, but that’s probably a quarter of what it was ten years ago.
- pathartl 8y agoThere's nothing sad about it. I know people that hadn't watched a movie or TV show in 2017. I know people that hadn't played a video game in 2017. It's just a matter of perspective and interest.