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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a more educated population yet there's been a reduction in the reading level that seems to line up with the rise of social media.

Some Tech guru (Dorsey?) said something about how we don't "need" War and Peace anymore, we can do it briefly with the new advances.

[b]In his day, Charles Dickens was massively popular among factory workers, but in today's much more educated population people say "it's too intellectual, 600 pages is too long" etc.[/b]  Apparently we don't need great literature anymore because there's Twitter, Tiktok and ChatGPT.

It's a strange phenomenon.  
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Well, "In his day," no one read 600 pages of Dickens. His work was serialized in magazines. Folks read a chapter at a time. If you read him today, look for how often there are mini cliffhangers at the end of each chapter.

At any rate, there is plenty of great literature being written today. So much that I have trouble keeping up with it. If you want an idea of where to find it, buy Pulitzer and Nat Book Award finalists and read them and go from there. Even if you don't love all of them, you will find a few writers you realize are amazing. [/quote]

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