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Originally Posted by iMicro
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record but if books are beneficial to your education I'd consider that a pro. A difference yes, but a pro that books have over comics.
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Seeing as we're back to comics slightly, I'll indulge you.
AS I SAID; it depends on the TYPE of books doesn't it? The Da Vinci Code is a badly written book, Dan Brown has a bad writing style. It will never be used in any classroom worth a damn, it would be laughed out of any uni-level lecture room, where as Watchmen has been used.
If all you get out of a book is the skill to write essays, that's irrelevant unless you ENJOY writing essays. You're not gonna be writing them all your life. If someone reads Ulysses and hates it, then what have they truly gained from it? Nothing.
That same person might read Spider-Man and LOVE it, gaining inspiration or any manner of things.
THAT is what you KEEP failing to understand.
Productivity comes down to what's relevant, what's appreciated and what APPEALS to the reader.
Books are not inherantly more productive.
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Originally Posted by iMicro
And don't say that reading books aren't beneficial to your education, or else we wouldn't read them in school correct?
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What the hell does that have to do with comics being less productive? Honestly? You are so insufferably oblivious that it's honestly draining the spirit out of me.
ONE MORE TIME:
Productivity is not determined by the way they are used or length of them. Productivity is determined by what they give the reader, that being entirely subjective.
One book being long, and taught in a school, doesn't mean it has given a student anything more than a comic book would. It depends on the student, the book and the comic book subjectively.
Do you understand a shred of what I am saying to you?
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Originally Posted by Zeelxx
Norin Radd
I'm surprised Norin Radd can type a feasible sentence, what you know about the English language could fill a paper bag.
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Yes, and I'm going to take a man seriously who spelled my very simple name wrong, twice...as well as being a troll.
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Originally Posted by Zeelxx
A. We don't comprehend above lower levels? Are you a mad man? Symbolgy? Imagery, themes, Inner conflicts? These aren't just words, we study them and write shitload of essays on this crap. Don't tell me this has nothing to do with comprehension, because I damn well know it does and if you can use a lick of brain to comprehend this sentence, then you'd know it too.
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If that's the case, then his argument still fails. Because everything expressed in comics is more than capable of conveying each and every one of those thematic or literary elements.
So depending on the comic AND the writer, AS I KEEP SAYING, they absolutely can do the same things as books.
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Originally Posted by Zeelxx
B. English IS ALLL comprehension the entire basis of LANGUAGE IS COMPREHENSION. GOOD GOD MAN. THINK.
C. Reading books is a DIRECT correlation with better writing, BETTER essay writing. Do you have a straight face while you're typing out this.. MADNESS? Do you not get how a better understanding of ANY THING leads to better results?
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Dan Brown's probably read more books than you or I, failure.
Anna Kournikova has studied more tapes of tennis players than you or I, yet remains a failure.
Better understanding of something does not mean better ability to use what you've learned. You can study guitar for 20 years, you may never be as good as Joe Satriani.
Alike to this; reading many books does not guarantee you'll gain ANY ability to re-use it.
You fail.
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Originally Posted by Zeelxx
D. let's not play cute, comics don't add to reading comprehension anymore than reading a bloody magazine. please. I mean, maybe if the comic is one of dem' ole English ones with all the flowery writing crap, but that more proves IMicro's point than yours.
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Let's not play dumb and say comics do not.
Have you ever read anything by Alan Moore? Grant Morrison? Neil Gaiman? Warren Ellis? If not, then keep quiet. If you have, then you'll understand why the above comment contains more crap than a constipated fat man.