tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14496565.post112180758671209753..comments2008-09-28T22:33:34.540+01:00Comments on The Silver Eel: The Silver Eelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615661656637047142noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14496565.post-1122063550378694022005-07-22T21:19:00.000+01:002005-07-22T21:19:00.000+01:00Good old Postman, one of the few required reading ...Good old Postman, one of the few required reading authors (along with Eco) I had time for in college (the rest seemed to me to know little of actual media viewing and were indulging themselves in intellectual masturbation). I too would now query his view that reading required more intellectual effort today. <BR/><BR/>Not only in the case of tabloid but even in a great number of novels. We still have quality writers, but the mass of the reading public now seem to expect a novel to be unchallenging entertainment in the same vein as a popcorn summer blockbuster film. While there is no shame or problem with enjoying these I do worry that they are becoming the norm rather than the exception - it is becoming the intellectual equivalent perhaps of eating fast food or chocolate regularly instead of occassionally as an enjoyably guilty treat.<BR/><BR/>Still, it lets those few of us with functioning brains feel superior to the great mass of sheep-like public majorities...Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257155435655575336noreply@blogger.com