The eternal subject of "What is Quality". Yep, I agree with you totally on this. Sometimes trash is fun to read, but there's a difference between trash and vapid trash.
My mom was the big reader. My dad read only Louis L'Amour, but he could read one in about an hour. They used to buy me books, but I liked the idea of books better than reading them. I surrounded myself with books and didn't read most of them, but they were a comfort for whatever reason. If I got into a series, I read the heck out of them. Not exactly the best that I could have been reading, but not on par with Gossip Girl either.
I always dug on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents the Three Investigators books. A few other titles too, but yeah, it's like these days some books they offer kids are the equivalent of giving a person dying of thirst a glass of warm salt water and saying "Hey, at least it's wet!"
Some books are really good though. The Percy Jackson books to name a few. I'm actually more optimistic these days than I was when I was a kid because there is more YA stuff. Back in the day, you could read Dr. Seuss or cut your teeth on Stephen King. Not much in-between.
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My mom was the big reader. My dad read only Louis L'Amour, but he could read one in about an hour. They used to buy me books, but I liked the idea of books better than reading them. I surrounded myself with books and didn't read most of them, but they were a comfort for whatever reason. If I got into a series, I read the heck out of them. Not exactly the best that I could have been reading, but not on par with Gossip Girl either.
I always dug on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents the Three Investigators books. A few other titles too, but yeah, it's like these days some books they offer kids are the equivalent of giving a person dying of thirst a glass of warm salt water and saying "Hey, at least it's wet!"
Some books are really good though. The Percy Jackson books to name a few. I'm actually more optimistic these days than I was when I was a kid because there is more YA stuff. Back in the day, you could read Dr. Seuss or cut your teeth on Stephen King. Not much in-between.