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Originally Posted by Undertoad
A lot of people think that the novel is going away as an art form, partly due to the short attention spans of modern people. We got stuff to do, ain't nobody got time to digest the entire life and motivations of Gatsby.
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I don't buy it, or at least not the reasoning. If we have the time and attention span to binge 8 hours of Breaking Bad, we have the same capacity to read a novel. As for whether people who like fiction are shifting to other forms of media, vs. people like Carruthers who prefer nonfiction and thus the printed word feels more reliable than a dramatization of facts by an actor, that's certainly possible.