Hi Josh:

Perhaps you are reading less fiction for the following reason...

I read the other day a quote from some hollywood bigshot who stated that sit-coms and such were pretty much shite because they were written by people who grew up on TV rather than on reading

That kind of makes sense to me because they are rather different narrative traditions and different mediums of communication.

So, if you think about it, Movies and Television, The Internet and The Literary Tradition convey narratives and information in different ways.


Perhaps Movies&TV and the Internet truncate, abridge, parse down the art of telling a story, exploring the richness of a character and oversimplify the means by which we convey The Story.....

and perhaps you are finding some fault in that on a subconscious level or something.

On the other hand, it could be that these mediums of communication that affect traditinal forms are still maturing and the narratives that are emerging within fiction are trying to integrate them

or something.



~V