The Inconvenience Of Hastings Entertainment

In the New Atlantis, Christine Rosen wrote an article, “People of the Screen.” The article talks about old books that are no longer being printed, that if the books are no longer printed, if we choose to replace the book-what will become of reading and the print culture it fostered? Rosen states, “We have already taken the first steps on our journey to a new form of literacy— “digital literacy.”

When I was younger, the amount of obligations upon me fewer and less likely to affect life in the long term, it was far easier to pursue my passion for fiction. School consumed less time, and the classes were introductions to various principles rather than in depth study. The books contained within the library of my elementary school weren’t great works of literature either. They were simple stories, with simple characters and events, but I loved them anyways. These simple things made sense, a comfort blanket that I simply had to reach into a basket on a shelf to find. When library time rolled around every week, I always managed to find three or four new ones to take home, and then read them all within a day or two. I had never been a particularly athletic child; I had the time and the will to devour as many stories as I possibly could.

2015 is the 62nd anniversary of the publishing of the novel Fahrenheit 451 by the acclaimed author, Ray Bradbury. Even though it was written more than half a century ago, it is still relevant today and thus still being read in school. While the book takes place in a future that many feel is unimaginable and ridiculous, many aspects are similar to our current society. Knowing this, it is possible to say that if we continue on our current path, the society’s perception of entertainment and media envisioned in Fahrenheit 451 are entirely plausible in our future. This can be shown through the perception of the territory technology take in our lives, of violence, and of the need for bigger and better electronic devices.

Unfortunately, the requested book was unavailable at that store, but the associated offered alternatives to Drew. The alternatives included purchasing the book from another Bookmaster store across town, transferring the book from another store, or using an e-book version. However, Drew was not satisfied with any of the alternatives, so he chose not to purchase the book. Despite Drew’s dissatisfaction the associate put forth effort to help Drew in locating a copy of the book which showed that the employees at Bookmaster care about their customers’ wants and needs.

...a gimmicky approach to the emptiness of life without books cannot convey what books mean or what they’re for: homage to literature and wisdom cannot be paid through a trick shortcut to profundity; the skimpy science-fiction script cannot create characters or observation that would make us understand imaginatively what book deprivation might be like. (8)

Today, people are trying to put reading as a form of binge-watching, but for books. In the past, before TV became mainstream, people used to read books to past time, but as TV become more mainstream, reading has become less appealing or “uncool”. Now people are trying to put reading back as a trend to make it “cool”. However, the issue with doing this is the way books are created, you can pick up a book for a single story and when people read it is to be educated, create vivid images in their minds, and get lost in the story, while TV is a form of media where you watch to past the time with little use of brain power. Another issue with putting books in the center, will cause books to become more like TV shows where you have to buy multiple books to have the complete story unlike now where I can buy any book and have a complete story in one book.

Barnes and Noble Bookstores deliver their product in a specialized way. This bookstore offers a wide variety of books for the reader; it would be very rare for a customer to be unable to

I embraced what it means to be a real reader at a young age. I didn’t merely read books, I LIVED books. My second grade teacher insisted her students write about their favorite books and why we chose that specific book. Easy peasy lemon squeezy Mrs. Laforte! Gazing down at the paper on my beloved cubby desk, the choice was clear: Dinosaurs Days by Joyce Milton. “I love this book because I love dinosaurs. I even have dinosaur toys!” (From an adorable little boy a.k.a. Bradley). It was around this time when I delved into solely fiction novels such as Narnia, which undoubtingly influenced how I viewed the world and its inhabitants. Nearly everyone daydreams when there is a certain lack of stimulation, but I’d bet I spent

I spent my childhood consumed by books. I kept one in my bag and took every spare moment that I could to read, even if it was only a page. My parents made my teacher’s promise that I wouldn’t read during recess. In the mornings when they woke me up for school, they found me sleeping, still clutching my book from the night before, unable to put it down in spite of the tug of sleep.

Throughout my childhood I enjoyed reading a variety of books as a method of escaping my troubles and delving into someone else’s world for a short time. But it is my belief that being an avid reader also helped me become

A book that I feel strongly about is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I love this book because of all the pop culture references to the 80’s, and I enjoy 80’s culture and all of the music and the people from that time. I feel that Ernest Cline wrote the book ant a perfect time because it was just when gaming culture was going into mainstream media. In Ready Player One the world is in 2044. The current generation is called the “Missing Millions” not because they are missing, but because there is nowhere to go because the world is overpopulated, and they have no place to go but the Oasis

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you’ll go,” says the famous author Dr. Seuss. In today’s culture though, many children spend great amounts of time staring at their personal devices or watching television. Children do not realize that reading provides a form of entertainment that proves not only educational but fun, too. Providing an exciting way to learn, books offer better entertainment than a movie, since books last longer than a movie because reading takes longer, as a result of this, they give more detail. Also, books grow the reader’s imagination because they allow the reader to envision the setting themselves. Whether through fairy tales, historical

Books have been in our lives since we were just in pre-k or kindergarten for some. Books are now something we do either for leisure or because we have to. The reading of books has changed from since we were little because they are now more electronical and can take away from the experience of a real book. It still matters how you read because even though books do the same thing, the distractionless and temptatious environment can hinder the books wonders. Books aren’t just for nothing but are used to teach, to learn from, to enjoy, and to become better from.

The second shelf holds the timeline of my progression from an innocent child to a passionate preadolescent. Tales of Mother Goose no longer filled my desire for knowledge, and tales like The Great Gatsby began to satiate that desire. These were the years that I found myself with too much time on my hands, and turned to books to fill my time and mind. I would sit and read, always ready to snap at anyone who dared to interrupt me. I read anything I could get my hands on. Newspaper clippings, leaflets, travel guides, and flyers are strewn about on this shelf. I read because I wanted to learn. Reading began to take me out of reality and into the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I accumulated a personality based on the characters I read about; I found little pieces of myself scattered throughout each novel I

As printed text becomes more difficult to read, reading as a hobby has gotten a lot less attractive to some people. UCLA psychology professor Patricia Greenfield points out in her studies, “reading develops imagination, induction,