Current Events > Books are so dumb and boring and wasteful and heavy.

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Literally nothing about them movies and audiobooks don't do better. Even audiobooks are pretty boring though.

Audio and digital are the worst. I read one and need to throw away my kindle and buy a new one every time I wanna read a new book.

Only thing worse than books are zoetropes. Goddamn those thing bore me

This is such a Sunhawk topic.

I could imagine a "philosophy movie" that uses brief lectures and dialogues to make an argument or such, and I might like that more than a book.

But reading books you want to read is actually a great experience, you just need more patience.

I vastly prefer physical books for D&D and other roleplaying games because they're much faster and more convenient for reference

Can audiobooks show you a map of where all the action is taking place i think not buddy

Billyionaire posted...

Literally nothing about them movies and audiobooks don't do better. Even audiobooks are pretty boring though.

most books are better than their movie versions easily due to more detail and it's usually as the author intended. Obviously movies are shorter

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I could imagine a "philosophy movie" that uses brief lectures and dialogues to make an argument or such, and I might like that more than a book.

But reading books you want to read is actually a great experience, you just need more patience.

How about you don't tell me what I need. I can watch LOTR extended while only taking one bathroom break, so I promise you I have plenty of patience. Also the movies are better than Tolkien's books

Audiobooks are for multitasking

SauI_Goodman posted...

Can audiobooks show you a map of where all the action is taking place i think not buddy

They can provide a mental map, and that's just as good.

A_Good_Boy posted...

They can provide a mental map, and that's just as good.

Is it

Just admit you are trolling with this topic dude.

Billyionaire posted...

How about you don't tell me what I need. I can watch LOTR extended while only taking one bathroom break, so I promise you I have plenty of patience. Also the movies are better than Tolkien's books

Alright fair enough

But you did make a general statement instead of making it clear this only extends to your subjective experience

Arcanine2009 posted...

most books are better than their movie versions easily due to more detail and it's usually as the author intended. Obviously movies are shorter

*raises an eyebrow in The Hobbit's direction*

Arcanine2009 posted...

Just admit you are trolling with this topic dude.

I fully believe TC needs flashing lights and motion to be engaged

no they are cool and rad <3

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I fully believe TC needs flashing lights and motion to be engaged

A common elementary grade-level insult leveled against the average movie enjoyer by the average book fan. Always falls flat.

Whenever I try to listen to an audiobook my mind wonders. I much prefer the paper books or even an ebook.

Yeah, books are bad for the environment. Such a waste.

Billyionaire posted...

How about you don't tell me what I need. I can watch LOTR extended while only taking one bathroom break, so I promise you I have plenty of patience. Also the movies are better than Tolkien's books

you also need the ability to read btw.

Books are extremely important for the development of civilization

Brain-dead topic.

Billyionaire posted...

Literally nothing about them movies and audiobooks don't do better. Even audiobooks are pretty boring though.

idk theres a lot of books that are better than their respective movies

Nothing like holding a tree carcass in your hands to feel that superiority.

*Books are dumb, boring, wasteful, and heavy.

I like ebooks more than books

That sais my mind has slowed down the past few years. The words get a bit jumbled now. I wonder ehat is happening to me

tc be like "fruits are awful, gushers are just as good"

Billyionaire posted...

A common elementary grade-level insult leveled against the average movie enjoyer by the average book fan. Always falls flat.

Isn't it true though? There is something about movies that books don't have. Also weird how you're ignoring everything books do have.

Also, the average movie probably creates more waste than the average book. But I guess there are more books. I don't think it's known for being a wasteful industry though, aside from the fact of consumption

Love love love my ereader. Takes up no space (as opposed to a ton of physical), memory is huge (books take up a tiny smidgen of space in it), battery life goes forever, can take it anywhere.

I'm saving all the books to read in case I get sent to prison.

theAteam posted...

idk theres a lot of books that are better than their respective movies

Ever seen/read Jaws? The book blows.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

There is something about movies that books don't have.

Go watch Barry Lyndon, where every frame of the movie could hang in the Louvre, and try to tell me the book is better.

I love audiobooks and use them a lot but anything dense or complicated just doesn't work for them. Try reading Pynchon or Dostoevsky or McCarthy in audio form and you will develop ADHD

Billyionaire posted...

Ever seen/read Jaws? The book blows.

The book IT is way superior to either movie adaptation.

Eh, a lot of what needs to be conveyed can be difficult for the movie depending on the book. Thats the problem with books like Dune, theres so much going on in that first book, that its nearly too much of a daunting task. Denis did a good job though.

Billyionaire posted...

Ever seen/read Jaws? The book blows.

Go watch Barry Lyndon, where every frame of the movie could hang in the Louvre, and try to tell me the book is better.

Those are two examples that don't tell me much. Why is there no Infinite Jest or The Recognitions movie? Are they complicated to translate to film?

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Those are two examples that don't tell me much.

Then... go watch them?

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Are they complicated to translate to film?

There is nothing that is too abstract or conceptual to have an interpretation in movie form.

Attempting to troll by bragging that you're barely literate is such a self own I barely feel the need to post this.

Billyionaire posted...

Then... go watch them?

There is nothing that is too abstract or conceptual to have an interpretation in movie form.

Just because a few movies are good it doesn't make every movie better than the book version. Terrible generalization and you know it. Anyway, I'm more likely to watch a movie than read a book. But books are usually the better experience for me. If you like movies that's fine but it doesn't make books boring. I don't get how you're going from A to B.

Movies are a superior art form - and have moving pictures and sounds. Books are literally what people use to fall asleep to. What more needs to be said.

books are just a manifestation of language and ideas. to categorically declare them boring and dumb is itself nonsensical

People that read are smarter than those who don't.

Wetterdew posted...

books are just a manifestation of language and ideas. to categorically declare them boring and dumb is itself nonsensical

Not so. The Epic of Gilgamesh wasn't written in a book so that's proof that it doesn't take a book to write things down.

Billyionaire posted...

Movies are a superior art form - and have moving pictures and sounds. Books are literally what people use to fall asleep to. What more needs to be said.

Sure, movies might be superior for some people, but that doesn't make books boring, dumb, or wasteful. They can be heavy though.

My book collection is for flexing bro.

Anyway, this topic makes me want to read so I will go do that

Billyionaire posted...

Not so. The Epic of Gilgamesh wasn't written in a book so that's proof that it doesn't take a book to write things down.

i didn't say or imply that writing can only exist in books

but who cares if a story was written on stone tablets or books, or spoken. it's the same language either way. books are just a manifestation of language and ideas

lol even thinking about books makes you smarter

if books are dumb, why do you watch movies based on books?