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Trust me. TV is NOTHING compared with the comfort of a good book. It is just so sad that kids don’t read today.
Speaking as a writer and as a sad, lonely geek, when I was in school, I had a very difficult time. People would bully me and steal my lunch. Throughout six years of school, from junior high till graduation, I never had a thing to eat.
To forget my hunger, I went to the only place in the school where I could be alone: the school library with its vast array of books. Yellowed old classics, ratty James Bonds, vast arrays of Indian writers, the occasional Star Wars novel…and Pollyanna.
Books are, were and will be the mainstay of my life. I despise e-books and Kindles because they take everything writers work for and reduce it to less than cheap newsprint. And for the most part, TVs are just as bad.
Everyone on this website should take the initiative to read at least one good book a day. Particularly kids. Especially latchkey kids.
Remember when Calvin was reading a book, and asks Hobbes about a quote he had just read: What does it mean— Religion is the opiate (opium) of the people The TV in the background thinks: Marx hasn’t seen anything yet!!
You know, that’s something I despise. People thinking everyone can read a good book in a day. I, for the most part, can’t. It usually takes me a week or two to go from cover to cover just curling up and reading a few chapters a day. Unless it’s a short book I can’t read it in a single day, but I enjoy my time with it.
I do wonder how many people REALLY read a book in a single day who claim they do. And how many read a book in a single day who skip over sections. I’ve got two sisters who both claim to be able to read a book in a day. The younger of the two can, or could given how often shes too busy now, read four books in a day. Each book being 212 or more pages long. And you’d ask her about something in the books and she could give details saying she’d actually read them. The older of the two was a skipper, she’d come up to you and start a discussion on the book, discussing parts from the beginning and end so it would seem she’d read it. But she had the slight problem of you bringing up something from the middle of the book and she’d ask what book that was from. Then she’d admit she hadn’t read that part.
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Kosaka Jinnai said, 6 months ago
Don’t even go THERE, piggywiggy.
Trust me. TV is NOTHING compared with the comfort of a good book. It is just so sad that kids don’t read today.
Speaking as a writer and as a sad, lonely geek, when I was in school, I had a very difficult time. People would bully me and steal my lunch. Throughout six years of school, from junior high till graduation, I never had a thing to eat.
To forget my hunger, I went to the only place in the school where I could be alone: the school library with its vast array of books. Yellowed old classics, ratty James Bonds, vast arrays of Indian writers, the occasional Star Wars novel…and Pollyanna.
Books are, were and will be the mainstay of my life. I despise e-books and Kindles because they take everything writers work for and reduce it to less than cheap newsprint. And for the most part, TVs are just as bad.
Everyone on this website should take the initiative to read at least one good book a day. Particularly kids. Especially latchkey kids.
win said, 6 months ago
Kill your television.
Keith Russell said, 6 months ago
You mean, that’s a TV? I thought they were um… more rectangular and thinner?
hcr1985 said, 6 months ago
That TV just goes to show how old this strip is!!!….of course, today that would probably be an ipad!!
mvw said, 6 months ago
At least Mr. Haney didn’t show up to sell him a new one.
exturk said, 6 months ago
Remember when Calvin was reading a book, and asks Hobbes about a quote he had just read: What does it mean—
Religion is the opiate (opium) of the people
The TV in the background thinks: Marx hasn’t seen anything yet!!
CrypticWizard said, 6 months ago
@Kosaka Jinnai
You hit the nail on the head, my friend. Things were the same for me in school, and I feel the same way about books. I sense a kindred spirit in you.
F6F5Hellcat said, 6 months ago
@Kosaka Jinnai
You know, that’s something I despise. People thinking everyone can read a good book in a day. I, for the most part, can’t. It usually takes me a week or two to go from cover to cover just curling up and reading a few chapters a day. Unless it’s a short book I can’t read it in a single day, but I enjoy my time with it.
I do wonder how many people REALLY read a book in a single day who claim they do. And how many read a book in a single day who skip over sections. I’ve got two sisters who both claim to be able to read a book in a day. The younger of the two can, or could given how often shes too busy now, read four books in a day. Each book being 212 or more pages long. And you’d ask her about something in the books and she could give details saying she’d actually read them. The older of the two was a skipper, she’d come up to you and start a discussion on the book, discussing parts from the beginning and end so it would seem she’d read it. But she had the slight problem of you bringing up something from the middle of the book and she’d ask what book that was from. Then she’d admit she hadn’t read that part.