What Karin wrote. I'm a word person rather than a picture
person and rarely watch a movie even. I picked up a graphic
novel in a store once, saw all the pictures, and put it
back.
I have only so much time left on
earth to read, and all this copyediting and proofreading has
turned me into a slow reader.
But I like new crime fiction more
than David does. Joy
Karin Montin wrote:
>I was started to write something very similar, but
I've got to work.
> At 10:06 AM 01/05/2008 -0400, David
wrote:
>
>>Just because Penzler says he doesn't read it
doesn't necessarily mean
>>that he looks down on it (though he may very
well). Speaking for
>>myself, 80% of the crime fiction I read was
published before 1970, and I
>>read graphic novels only occasionally. And it's
not that I dislike
>>graphic novels or books published after 1970-it's
just that I have only
>>so many hours in the day to read (and only so
many days left in my
>>lifetime), and I know, in general, all other
things being equal, that I
>>am more likely to enjoy a crime novel published
in 1955 than 1985, and I
>>am more likely to enjoy a conventional novel than
a graphic novel. But
>>this is largely a matter of personal
taste.
>>
>>As for graphic novels and older readers, I do
know several readers of
>>the 50+ group whose prejudice against the genre
is downright irrational.
>>I have one colleague in the English department
where I teach who
>>stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that the term
GRAPHIC NOVEL even
>>exists-they're all "comic books" to him. Then
again, he's got age AND
>>literary snobbery working against him.
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