Many of my friends tell me that they do not like to read. I see them scrolling on their phones looking at tweets and Facebook posts. This causes me to wonder what is happening to society when stories are becoming irrelevant, even though civilization was built on the passing down of stories. Fortunately, I have seen the success of commercial fiction for capturing new avid readers. I like to meet up with friends that I see drooling over their phones now fixated in some adventure in the pages of a book. Literature has tough competition against the addictive qualities that technology carries. Technology provides entertainment quickly without much effort unlike books, whether they are literary fiction or commercial fiction. However, once a person is introduced to reading stories, a lifelong passion may be born. For those that have
Many of my friends tell me that they do not like to read. I see them scrolling on their phones looking at tweets and Facebook posts. This causes me to wonder what is happening to society when stories are becoming irrelevant, even though civilization was built on the passing down of stories. Fortunately, I have seen the success of commercial fiction for capturing new avid readers. I like to meet up with friends that I see drooling over their phones now fixated in some adventure in the pages of a book. Literature has tough competition against the addictive qualities that technology carries. Technology provides entertainment quickly without much effort unlike books, whether they are literary fiction or commercial fiction. However, once a person is introduced to reading stories, a lifelong passion may be born. For those that have