Die Vorleser
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Saturday 11 July 2009 22:25

(I love posting stuff with a title that starts with
"Die") But Die Vorleser is not that bad. Ijoma
Mangold is no Tom Paulin and Amelie Fried is no
Allison Pearson. But the issue I have with such a
show is that it caters for a niche, and tends to
get elitist. I don't mind people talking about
books like they are important (the books), but it
shouldn't look like every book is more important
than any movie, game, music video and every other
piece of media that is out there. There is still
adhered to this mythical image of a lone artist who
struggles with blank paper in a typewriter in some
attic with plenty of alcohol to write a book,
trying to making that product appear less fake than
the multi-million dollar releases in the game- and
movie industry. If we'd care about struggling
artists we would only need to read livejournal and
watch youtube. If it's about storytelling things
get more interesting.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/dull/2009/07/11/die-vorleser/