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Far out, man! Groovy! Real books are, like, totally squaresville, daddy-o!
Word.
I’m 14, and I read a lot! And not crap like Twilight. Real books which don’t involve emo fairies.
exact same situation as you. 14, love to read but hate twilight… although I am on facebook as well. Like I’m half way through a 500 page book right now
Same here. Same age, even. I don’t have a Facebook, though, but I read actual books. I’m almost done with Let The Right One In, and just finished Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.
I must admit, I did read Twilight. Only the first one, though. It was okay, but not good enough to read the sequels. I don’t see why it’s so popular. There are many other better vampire books.
When i was 14 (2 years ago) i read batlefield earth and LOTR and The Hobbit
So…was the BOOK any better than the MOVIE?
(Yes on the last two, terrified yet curious about the first)
My friends LOVE Twilight, so I have to keep saying
“You guys are weird” after I forget they are total chatterboxes and tell everyone I don’t like it and I get totally rejected from the school.
Oh dear. Fail on so many levels.
Spot the oldie who wrote this – do “kids” “dig” anything these days?
Also, that should definitely read “Which” or “What type” of book. As it is it makes no sense, and especially since the post is about literary standards, that’s the ultimate faux-pas.
You, amtn30, fail big.
Yes! I totally agree! I read waaaay too much, and not stuff like Twilight. I’m going to read Atlas Shrugged this summer. Hello, this is the Failure Hotline.
Yes, this graph is fail on so many levels.
As to your reading Atlas Shrugged, I only have this to say:
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
It made enough sense to me.
I’m only 24 (not something I consider old) and I say “dig” all the time. Maybe it’s… Well, alright, maybe we’re freaks but it’s a word, damnit, and it works!
Dig and Groovy are perfectly fine and fun words to deploy. The observation remains a fail.
You kids today with your FaceBooks and your MineSpaces and your NT3 players…
-20 for using the word “dig” to say “like.”
twilight should be on this graph. no, i’m not going to assume it’s included in “real books”
Oh I know quite a few teens that would prove you wrong on this one (they like both)
thats me… love to read and love facebook
Clearly the maker of this graph never met me. Swap Facebook with real books and then it’ll apply to me
Hell no! I love reading (and not crap like Twilight) books, and personally count the Silmarillion, Eyes like Stars, and the Snow Spider Trilogy amond my favourites.
I’m a teenager and I like to read, thanks. Also, using words like ‘dig’, and capitalizing it FaceBook? Do you also yell at kids to get off your lawn, because that’s kind of what I’m getting.
I thought the same way when reading the graph: “What old fogey made this one up?”
I’m the opposite of this…I love to read (real books, like 1984 and Catch-22), and am not too fond of Facebook.
Speaking as one of the teenagers, I despise Twilight, Facebook has its uses, and I just got a freaking huge stack of books today that will probably last me a few weeks. Only a few of them are required reading, but they’re good.
I love all the teens coming out of the woodwork to protest this one. Continue your literary crusades in peace of mind that you are not alone!
There are those certain teenagers that make the rest of us look bad . . . I mean, sure, about a year ago, almost everyone I knew loved Twilights. But now, no one reads books about sparkly woodland fairies (I’m looking at you, Edward Cullen).
And what’s up with the quotes? Who says “dig” anymore? Which books does this person consider “real books?”
I think the maker of this graph is stuck in the 70′s (or maybe the 80′s, not sure). Next he’s going to start talking about all this ‘groovy’ new technology and stuff.
His “groovy” new technology consisting of a Polaroid and a cell phone the size of a shoebox.
Actually “Real Books” should say “Twilight(but only after the movie came out, at which point they exclaim that the Twilight books are the best books ever!!!111!!!!1!”
Then once the “Vampire fad” cools off, they stop reading books all together.
Twilight is never going to be a “real book” EVER
if you knew most kids you would know that twilight is a joke just like Justin Bieber
We can hope they move on to REAL horror books…Braham Stoker…Anne Rice pre-Jesus…Stephen King (we can hope)
I never really got into those. I liked Tolkein though.
I mostly read Anne McCaffery when I was a youngin.
Ick, Facebook. I’d rather go hide somewhere with my worn-out copy of Phantom of the Opera. >.>
Apparently my hatred of Facebook and use of the word ‘dig’ is giving me away for the crotchety old man that I am at heart. Loving these comments.
I’m only 20, but my years working in the library have taught me to hate the literature-minded teen. They’re creepy, greasy little people who will request a long list of vampire-inspired novels without blinking.
Of course, then you have your bibliophilic teen who swears against anything remotely close to vampires, werewolves, regular wolves, or wizardry in a bizarre crusade against the ‘Young Adult Fiction’ section. These kids usually use a lot of swear words and try to bum coffee and cigarettes from the librarian.
TL. DR.
*chuckles*
Then there are the normal ones, that love books of every kind, fiction or non-fiction, and don’t conform to your stereotypes.
Oh, you don’t notice those ones. They’re too busy reading and not being douche-fodder.
First off, before I say anything else, who cares if you don’t read Twilight? I’m tired of reading posts going “Oh my God, Twilight is the worst book ever/Twilight shouldn’t even be considered a book/etc/etc/etc.”
This little message was going to be a whole hell of a lot more vulgar, but upon typing the first sentence, I realized I couldn’t cuss on here, so had to rethink what I was going to say, so it’s shorter than I want it to be.
Anyway, I’m 17, and pretty much NEVER go on Facebook. I have an account, just like I did with Myspace, but the same thing happened with Facebook that happened with Myspace. I just didn’t care about it. I don’t need a social network such as Facebook and Twitter and all that crap to keep in touch with friends. Such is what Instant Messengers were created for. The closest thing to a social networking site I went to was Meebo, and they are taking away a pretty large feature to what made them anywhere near a social networking site: their public chatrooms, which I honestly did happen to use.
And I LOVE to read. My whole entire family does. No, I am not going to go on and on about how many so-and-so long paged books I’ve read. Why? Because it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t show off my intelligence at all. I read what I like. You don’t like it? Who the hell cares? And I will admit, I have read Twilight, and I AM somewhat of a fan, I am not crazed about it. It could have been a lot better, and I don’t really care whether you consider them vampires or werewolves or not. She was creative, and all you have to say about it is “Vampires don’t sparkle” or “Werewolves don’t do that” or whatever it is anyone says about it. So maybe they AREN’T vampires and werewolves. They’re entirely new creatures who happen to have similarities. It’s also referenced in the last book that the “werewolves” aren’t actually werewolves, so are more akin to shape-shifters. Though I hardly believe anyone cares about that.
Either way, I don’t have much more to say, yaddayadda, TL;DR, whatever.
“You don’t like it? Who the hell cares?”
This. Is my reply.
Figures someone would go along to say that, but whatever. I had to say it, and I’ve probably said something similar several times before elsewhere.
I agree with you. Also, how can they say Twilight isn’t a real book if they haven’t even read them? Most of them probably haven’t even seen one of the movies. They just decided that they hated Twilight because how insanely popular it is.
I’ve met a few people who claim to have read the book, and I’d honestly like to respect their opinions that they don’t like the book, but I just can’t when they’re all “ZOMG, WORST BOOK EVAR! IT CAN’T EVEN BE CONSIDERED A BOOK!”
It sucks up all of their credibility.
And maybe my post wasn’t exactly the best thing to post, and it’s formatted somewhat weirdly, but it was early in the morning when I posted. c:
I haven’t read the books but I have seen the film. My sister has read the book and thinks they should be treated with care and respect… but she through the book half way across the room and said it is worse than the film so i don’t plan to read the books or see the other films (especially since good bands have gone down to their ranks and are now like by twilight fans who only like them because they were in twilight
RIP Muse…
Me too. I don’t like it, but the people who keep posting that stuff either hate or adore me for it. Same with /other/ other people, who keep posting that kind of crap HOPING they’re on the good side.
the options should be:
real books
Twilight
I don’t read or go on Facebook :/
Seriously? Insulting much?
I read more real books per year than the average American does in a lifetime. & No, I’m not just talking about Twilight here. Shakespeare, Austen, Shelly, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gaiman, Poe, and C.S. Lewis just to name a few.
Yeah, I DO get on facebook. I enjoy knowing what my friends are up to and keeping in touch with family that lives far away. There’s nothing wrong with that.
So suck it. It’s not right to generalize and judge just to get a laugh out of a few pretentious jackasses.
Do you seriously read all of those dry, tedious books? Are you the most boring person on the planet earth?
What is your Facebook status? “Accidentally got “Low Fat” cream cheese at the store…” ?
Btw, friend, if you don’t want to be offended ever ever ever, probably don’t come to the internet. Just sayin’.
Obvious troll is obvious.
…And there I go, feeding it. Naughty me.
1. I enjoy those books, and the only reason you could make a comment like that is if you wanted to look cool, or more appropriately like an arrogant jackass. Congrats, you succeeded.
2. What’s your faceboook status? “Think I’m gonna look around on the internet today for people who disagree with me so I can discredit them, and people will laugh at my comment. Ego boost! ”
3.Oh, and “friend” if you don’t want to look like a complete and total douche, probably shouldn’t associate people being cultured with people being boring. Or end your opinion in “Just sayin’”
LOL idgas. I don’t have a Facebook, I don’t care if you consider me an arrogant jackass, and I find those books more torture than pleasure.
…Just sayin (a few months late, but it’s the thought that counts?).
Umm…stereotypical, much? I’ll have you know that I read more than most of my friends combined. No, not Twilight. Hell no. I read REAL literature. Shakespeare. Poe. Orwell. Wilbur Smith. Has anyone read River God? If not, I highly recommend it, especially if you’re interested in Egyptian mythology.
I would refer you to here:
http://graphjam.com/2010/06/08/funny-graphs-book-teenagers-dig/comment-page-1/#comment-114435
You probably don’t like making a scene or make painful effort to be exciting or maybe join the Three Wolf Moon cult.
Why would you need to? You have books.
I’ll take that tip about River God, too, thanks.
Why isn’t Twilight on here somewhere. I am not saying it’s bad or anything i just don’t understand what all the hype about Twilight is. I read heaps of books, AND i use Facebook, AND i’m a teen so I disagree with this graph.
The Twilight books weren’t bad until they became popular and made into movies.
I’m 15 and my favorite book is The Pact by Jodi Picoult.
Observation fail. I would guess there are probably more kids reading 8-13 than there were 20 years ago. Thanks J K Rowling (Heres another 100 Million). At the very least, the kids are still reading.
That is not true, sadly. I study Journalism and most kids these days (darn kids:P) just don’t read books anymore – or newspapers/magazines, for that matter. It has to do with having less free time, spending your free time differently/reading less hours, but the main reason is that they don’t like reading anymore. There are statistics to prove it… and lots of adults and adolescents also read Rowling (I do, for one:)) So yes, they are reading, but there are less kids who love to read than there are kids who hate it.
Or maybe that’s only true for the Dutchies
I’m sure that if I ever end up working at a bookstore…I might be tempted to work on my aim so I may redefine facebook. I’ll keep a stack of Dracula, Frankenstein, Lord of the Rings, that one funny French one about the guy with the drinking problem and body hair…I’m sure I could find a few more hefty, face-sized books if I really applied myself.
I’m a teen, yet I read shakspear o.o
what the hell is this, 1960?
We don’t dig anything… we Digg it these days
i thought this was gonna be about twilight when i read the title… i hate twilight
Forgot to add “twilight”
That book is horrible, but damn. I wish I wrote that book. That bitch wrote a novel-sized fanfic and she’s now a multimillionaire.
Correct that to “What book Adults dig”.