If I pissed anyone off in here tonight, that was not my intention. Yeah, sure, I didn't come here organically, but it being about something I really enjoy and partake in made me want to engage in good faith.
I only read books that have pictures Which is another way of saying my current literary hyperfixation is comics/graphic novels. I haven't been in the world of academia in a long time but I do have a MA in English/Creative Writing (Poetry) so I definitely can read. I just need to remember how...
picked up the first 2 volumes of Absolute Batman tonight. about to dive in. I've dabbled with comics/graphic novels here and there but want to get more into it.
One of our school board members, who I am pretty sure cannot read, got a manga banned from our school district because reading right to left is "the wrong way" to her.
Funny enough, I struggle with graphic novels. In whatever creative art college course I took it was focused on graphic novels and I really, really struggled to maintain focus haha
This thread is very reminiscent of the AP days tonight in a bad way. Why are people openly talking shit about other users one forum over and then bringing it into this thread? I feel like that kind of cliquey nonsense makes sense when everyone was a bunch of teenagers / early 20-somethings. But practically everyone on here is well into their 30s now. It’s embarrassing
Picked a good night to watch a motion picture and not log onto the World Wide Web I guess. Weird vibes.
If you want more recs after AbsBat, especially beyond superhero comics, I'd love to recommend some stuff.
I see where both sides were coming from here. As educators, I can see how something like this would be actively annoying and make their jobs, especially teaching the subject at hand, more difficult and depressing with less engagement. If the letterboxd 500 list was topped by avengers endgame, I could see why film school teachers would think that app sucks and is useless. A hunger games book being rated the best best ever is objectively very dumb even if I myself view it to be relatively harmless. that being said I do see where people are coming from to say let people enjoy things. Or at least, because I’m sure it will seem like I do not practice that at all lol, I’m trying to. Also just anecdotally, my sister is a much more adventurous reader who has probably read more of the classics and more Important books than I have. The first hunger games book came out when she was 12 and is the first book I remember her choosing to read on her own and tell me about it and pretty soon after that she was doing the same for other stuff. I could see it being a gateway book for a generation younger than us and that’s cool. It isn’t for me and I do think any site that says it’s the best book ever probably isn’t super worthwhile but I’m trying not to yuck yums. No clue why people were being so weird about this
Yeah to reiterate, The Hunger Games is not the “trash” or tiktock nonsense I am talking about. It is a good book, it’s also insane to call it the best book ever (which no one did outside of that dumb clickbait tweet). This is the trash that I am talking about/that I see regularly
Not trying to relitigate this and I agree with your point generally but haven’t books like that always been super common and predate good reads? I can see how that and booktok would exacerbate the issue but it seems like something that has been around for generations.