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The question is, have you stopped reading same-ish books only to watch same-ish TV series? While various obligations can reduce your entertainment time, I've n

The question is, have you stopped reading same-ish books only to watch same-ish TV series? While various obligations can reduce your entertainment time, I've noticed that most people complaining about that tend to be able to list tens of Netflix series that they watched. And then wonder why I have no idea what they're talking about and when I have time to read. > Even the sci-fi and fantasy books, once I loved, lost their magic. Have they, or have you finished all the great books that were published before the present, and now need to wait for someone to write new great books? 95% of what gets published in a year in any medium is probably only worth watching/reading if you're very bored. Your saving grace when you are born is there is a century of previously published good stuff. But you're eventually going to run out.

watwut 2y ago
> Have they, or have you finished all the great books that were published before the present, and now need to wait for someone to write new great books? I know that for me, the kind of books I used to like lost appeal. I would read them multiple times, but I just do not find them pleasurable anymore. It is not about me finishing all the great books humanity wrote up to now. It is about me changing. For the record, the same thing happened with some movies/series. They used to be super great, when I am trying to rewatch they are not.
markus_zhang 2y ago
I don't watch movies or TV shows very much. For TV shows I keep going back to the same ones I loved, that is the X-Files. And I can't even think of a second one I'd go back to watch...damn there is really no other TV show I'm going to watch, unless you count kids show such as Bluey. For movies I'm also going back to the ones I loved to watch. I think I did add maybe a few throughout the years, but it's safe to say that most of the movies in my library are older than 10 years old. The thing about movies and shows is, reality can be weirder and more interesting. Most of the movies and TV shows are pretty naive when they try talking about politics or such.

watwut 2y ago

> Have they, or have you finished all the great books that were published before the present, and now need to wait for someone to write new great books? I know that for me, the kind of books I used to like lost appeal. I would read them multiple times, but I just do not find them pleasurable anymore. It is not about me finishing all the great books humanity wrote up to now. It is about me changing. For the record, the same thing happened with some movies/series. They used to be super great, when I am trying to rewatch they are not.

markus_zhang 2y ago

I don't watch movies or TV shows very much. For TV shows I keep going back to the same ones I loved, that is the X-Files. And I can't even think of a second one I'd go back to watch...damn there is really no other TV show I'm going to watch, unless you count kids show such as Bluey. For movies I'm also going back to the ones I loved to watch. I think I did add maybe a few throughout the years, but it's safe to say that most of the movies in my library are older than 10 years old. The thing about movies and shows is, reality can be weirder and more interesting. Most of the movies and TV shows are pretty naive when they try talking about politics or such.