Rachel

We have been talking a lot lately on the longevity of books, and whether or not they will still be around in the next century. One of the main arguments is that curling up with a good book and feeling the turn of the pages on your hands can not compare to reading a book online. Why should this be any different if the content is the same? It must be that the medium is the message. Also, the experience of watching a movie on the big screen cannot compare to watching it on a tv screen or on a video ipod. Would "Braveheart" have won an Oscar for best picture if the judges had watched it on a normal sized televsion? If the content is the same than surely it is more than that we are just used to reading books are watching movies in theaters, it surely has to do with the medium. This, mixed with the fact that we have an aversion to new forms of media taking over the old, is why we like it more.

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When these conspiracy theories finally get to us, we can go out in style with these

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I haven't finished the book yet, because I only got it a couple days ago, but I'm trying! I like it a lot so far, though its true that a modern novel has yet to be written without mentioning male genitalia. Male HORSE genitalia at that. Its scary to think that this is pretty much how things really do go down in Washington, though it seems as though there are at least a few gentle souls left out there. I like how this is written as well. I like first person narratives, and I like that it is written in a series of run-on sentences, it makes it seem more like the way people actually talk.

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