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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People didn't read the original Dickens or Dumas all at once. They were installments in magazines and paid by the page. [/quote]

This. It was like watching a TV show or multi-part video. Also it was *about* them / relevant to their lives in a way it isn't relevant to ours. Still great stories, I love Dickens, but you need to understand the context.

I'm a voracious reader -- I read easily 50 books a year -- but OP would probably scoff at my choices. Sci fi, romance, YA, maybe a little comedic non-fiction. I'm an escapist reader, I have no interest in heavy drama. [/quote]

Same. I generally only read a "serious" book when it's the choice of my neighborhood book club.

There's no way to compare reading today to reading 100+ years ago when it was one of the few options for entertainment. As PP says serialized stories like Dickens were much more analogous to TV's role in society today. And I'm sure the intellectuals of the day lamented the poor entertainment choices of the masses vs their sophisticated reading of what they considered classics. [/quote]

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