Poll: Is the novel dead?

[Jingthing]

Here goes nothing.

 

[billd766]

25 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Here goes nothing.

 

A good poll and a very interesting thread.

 

Thank you.

 

I read an Ebook for about an hour a night.

 

I have read the first 4 books of Spike Milligan's war memoirs and I started a book called "The Sugar Queen" by Sarah Addison Allen.

 

Some authors books I have read 2 or 3 times as I enjoy them.

 

I used to listen to Audio books but I have run out of the authors I like and haven't found a better source yet.

 

I am 80 now and I first started reading properly when I got my junior library card at about 10 years old.

 

I prefer Ebooks as I can read them on most digital stuff and it is so easy to adjust the size of the text and the fact that I can carry hundreds or more at the same time.

[proton]

Can't read novels now, too many words.

[KhunLA]

I've read a lot of novels, but only 1 outside of work.  I only read a book, when bored and can't do anything else, including sleep.  Enjoyed most books I've read, and at least 1 a week for 10+ years.  Only to pass the time faster at work.

 

I haven't read one in 25 years, since I stopped working.  Actually bought one after retiring, and could get pass the 1st chapter.  To many things to experience in real life, rather than reading someone else's story about fictitious  people.

[Jingthing]

I think it's more or less dead already.

Yes many novels are published annually but only a tiny percentage of people read them anymore.

It's only a matter of probably a short time before AI can write great novels that will be totally indistinguishable from human written ones.

But people still won't read them AI or not.

If you meet a young person these days who says they want to be a novelist, perhaps the proper response is to slap them in the face.

 

[1FinickyOne]

They say that there are more people writing novels than reading them... 

[GarryP]

If they put novels on TikTok or Instagram then more people would read them. 

[Harrisfan]

12 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I think it's more or less dead already.

Yes many novels are published annually but only a tiny percentage of people read them anymore.

It's only a matter of probably a short time before AI can write great novels that will be totally indistinguishable from human written ones.

But people still won't read them AI or not.

If you meet a young person these days who says they want to be a novelist, perhaps the proper response is to slap them in the face.

 

Btw lol fyi now

[Yagoda]

Gravitys Rainbow was written in 1973. Thats it. Never again will there be such a work of creativity in the English Language. If you havent read it, oh well.

[save the frogs]

23 hours ago, Jingthing said:

If you meet a young person these days who says they want to be a novelist, perhaps the proper response is to slap them in the face.

but your story could get picked up by Hollywood and made into a film.

although that's a long shot

or not sure how it works, but maybe you can write a screenplay and try to reach out to hollywood if you've got the talent

i dont read novels much, only books with information

since there are so many movies for fiction

some people say "the book is better than the film." could be. but i like visuals and you can watch way more films than read books. 

also, there's a lot free animations online. i like visuals, which have mostly replaced just printed text. 

if I do get back into reading, it would be mostly short stories though as I have no patience for 500 page books.

 

 

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

but your story could get picked up by Hollywood and made into a film.

although that's a long shot

or not sure how it works, but maybe you can write a screenplay and try to reach out to hollywood if you've got the talent

i dont read novels much, only books with information

since there are so many movies for fiction

some people say "the book is better than the film." could be. but i like visuals and you can watch way more films than read books. 

also, there's a lot free animations online. i like visuals, which have mostly replaced just printed text. 

if I do get back into reading, it would be mostly short stories though as I have no patience for 500 page books.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course tv and films have replaced novels. Story telling is wired in humans. But reading a well written novel is an entirely different personal experience than watching the story. 

[connda]

I think there is a break in the number of people who actually read. And I hate to say it but it may have to do with the literal dumbing down of the public and the current generations.  And it might be generational.  Or not.  But I don't see publishers going out of business, and I've got to admit that I've read some really good novels this yet.  So novels have their place.  And there are good novels being written.

[connda]

Actually I came here looking for a "What Are You Reading" topic.  I don't see one.  Hummmm.  🤔