Janet F Hamlin

> << Is a trashy novel more worthwhile than A&E
> Biography or Discovery?
> >>
>
> Sometimes, late at night, when I'm all alone,
> YES!!!!!!!!

Now we can get into what would define a trashy novel!
A subject that could get hot with some of my in-laws!!
What they call literature I don't call anything at
all. What I enjoy quite often has subject matter they
feel should not be refered to at all.
Sharon>>

I like trashy novels and (some) junk TV just as much as the next person. I
was just pointing out to those that feel TV is evil and books are sacred
(I'm exaggerating :) that there are good and bad in both mediums, with
"good" and "bad" defined solely with the "user" (or by the eye of the
beholder <g>)

Janet

Bridget E Coffman

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:08:56 -0400 "Janet F Hamlin" <jefhdvm@...>
writes:
>
>
> I like trashy novels and (some) junk TV just as much as the next
person. I
> was just pointing out to those that feel TV is evil and books are
sacred
> (I'm exaggerating :) that there are good and bad in both mediums, with
> "good" and "bad" defined solely with the "user" (or by the eye of the
> beholder <g>)
>
> Janet
>
>

I don't think TV us evil or that books re sacred, I think both can be
abused if the person partaking is hurting his/her life in the process.
That said on to the interesting subject:

I had a discussion a while back on a writing list I think about what
'literature' is and what has value. I truly believe that hundreds of
years from now the surviving literature will be Harry Potter books, Tom
Clancy, Steven King, Danielle Steele, James Patterson, etc. We have this
hoity toity attitude about popular fiction - that it is somehow less
worthy but in the long run what will survive is what got printed the
most. I personally, like Dean Koontz. I also read Tami Hoag, Patterson,
Clancy, Janet Evanovich and oodles of others.

Bridget


~~~~If electricity comes from electrons...does that mean that morality
comes from morons?~~~~
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell;
And by and by my Soul returned to me,
And answered, "I Myself am Heaven and Hell." -- The Rubaiyat