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20056955 No.20056955 [Reply] [Original]

Why aren't there any popular reaction images based off of literature?

In other words, why are books such a small portion of pop culture? Is it because it's too much of an intellectual thing as opposed to other mediums which have visuals to help with its shareability? What would it take for books to be as much as a pop culture presence as, say, The Office or capeshit?

>> No.20056974

>>20056955
>images
>literature
literature is by definition not a visual medium
the vast majority of literature existed before photography
portraits aren't usually reaction image material aside from archaic rap and "give her the d."
most authors in the age of photography are autistic recluses

>> No.20056979

Harry Porter

Effort and time vs return. Other mediums deliever far better returns if you are lazy and want to be spoon fed. It has nothing to do with being intellectual. Afterall there is a theory that says the only reason we have become more intellectual is that collectively it allows us to be more lazy

>> No.20056985

>>20056974
This

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>> No.20056991

Did you go to school? Everyone in my classes hated every book, even the fun ones like Lord of the Flies. I loved Catcher in the Rye when we read it but all my friends shat on it or were apathetic at best

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>>20056985
This one is based on the book "The Time Machine".

>> No.20057022

>>20056974
>most authors in the age of photography are autistic recluses
I wonder why there hasn't really been a "rockstar author" yet. Embarrassing for me to say that the only one that comes to my mind is John Green.

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>> No.20057077

>>20057022
>I wonder why there hasn't really been a "rockstar author" yet
what on earth are you talking about?
even in the 1800s authors like charles dickens went on tour and were mobbed when they appeared in public. dickens even had a stalker

>> No.20057089

>>20056955
We used to have loads but frogs called them reddit and derailed the threads so we stopped using them.

>> No.20057099

>>20057022
That is literally what Hemingway was. His life and antics were a big part of what made him big, all the celebrity drama which followed him everywhere he went.

>> No.20057106

>tfw no one remember daveposting

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