OK. cadhla posted a story a day for the entirety of Advent, and posts other such from time to time. raine_wynd posts the occasional fic as well. I have an entire novel I need to get 'round to reading from annathepiper. I've got the entire Honorverse CD resident on my hard drive, and I dive in there from time to time.
OK, so I may not devour quite as much fiction as I once used to. But there is definitely literature to be had online, anything from the Gutenberg Project to Hello Kitty drabble, and I for one probably am not nearly the most avid reader thereof. And what I'm leaving behind in "literature", I'm more than making up for keeping up with my world and the people in it. I spend a good 60-70 hours a week behind a keyboard, and if a majority (not a vast one, but a simple 51%) of that isn't spent reading English, not code, I'd be surprised.
(I remember considering going to work for the computer center and finishing my degree by bits and pieces once. Dad's remark was, "He probably spends 40 hours a week on the computer already, this won't hurt..." He was right. Even being in school, my online time added up to 45-50 hours a week. 'course, a lot more of it was spent coding then, but still. A heck of a lot of Usenet passed beneath my cursor.)
'course, then there's also the time spent *writing*... no, I don't write fic, but it's still a creative exercise for me to put together a good article...
So. Not literate? moi? Shirley, he jests.
(Gripping hand, I gotta wonder if he's none of those wags that think that Science Fiction isn't real literature... I'd point him at Fahrenheit 451 and see if he still wants to make that claim, or if he wants to start a fire...
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Date: 2007-12-29 06:56 am (UTC)OK, so I may not devour quite as much fiction as I once used to. But there is definitely literature to be had online, anything from the Gutenberg Project to Hello Kitty drabble, and I for one probably am not nearly the most avid reader thereof. And what I'm leaving behind in "literature", I'm more than making up for keeping up with my world and the people in it. I spend a good 60-70 hours a week behind a keyboard, and if a majority (not a vast one, but a simple 51%) of that isn't spent reading English, not code, I'd be surprised.
(I remember considering going to work for the computer center and finishing my degree by bits and pieces once. Dad's remark was, "He probably spends 40 hours a week on the computer already, this won't hurt..." He was right. Even being in school, my online time added up to 45-50 hours a week. 'course, a lot more of it was spent coding then, but still. A heck of a lot of Usenet passed beneath my cursor.)
'course, then there's also the time spent *writing*... no, I don't write fic, but it's still a creative exercise for me to put together a good article...
So. Not literate? moi? Shirley, he jests.
(Gripping hand, I gotta wonder if he's none of those wags that think that Science Fiction isn't real literature... I'd point him at Fahrenheit 451 and see if he still wants to make that claim, or if he wants to start a fire...