An Explanation of an Important Book: A Favored High School Paper from 2013.
An Explanation of an Important Book: A Favored High School Paper from 2013. ‘Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality’ by Neal Gabler is quite certainly the most influential book I have ever read. It is not the most intelligent, nor the most enjoyable, nor even something I would quickly recommend to my friends. ‘Life: The Movie’ changed how I live my life as a reader and thinker, and changed my role as a consumer of books and movies to one of a more critical thinker. It made me selective in what I absorb, in an age of internet and libraries and access to informational gluttony unlike any other time in human history. After a third read-through, I feel I can finally understand it's scope. I think I have finally come to terms with its dramatic, somewhat unprofessional written style. It is one of those books that is rather excitable and moves its argument to its most extreme conclusion without a healthy amount of proof... yet I adore it. It holds valued arguments...