I just got done watching Out of Print and I thought it was a great watch. It was very informative and made me think a lot about our society. Technology is the new wave with everything but I think reading a book is more pleasurable. It is a real shame books are dying out. It takes a special kind of person nowadays to sit down and really dive into a book. People my age definitely do not read anywhere near the amount they should. I think you can actually tell when someone is a reader versus when someone is not, just by having a conversation with them. I think people my age and younger will suffer due to not reading and they will not even know it. The word choice and fluidness of their speaking is one way you could tell. 

The movie actually inspired me to get up and rent a book from the library that I have been wanting to read. The book is On the Road by Jack Kerouac, can’t wait to go on that trip. The movie also went into detail about how Carnagie set up all the libraries. That was such a good idea to further our country’s intelligence as a whole. Books were not available to everyone before that, so if you didn’t have books you couldn’t even attempt to read. The documentary honestly made me want to write a book. I was thinking about what you said in class today about how if you write a book and then you die and there is a piece of you left over. I liked the thought of how someone could read my thoughts about something long after I am gone. Then depending on what you wrote about, you leave a key to the inside of your mind and people can know what you were like. 

I recently finished the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson and I had watched the movie before reading it. The book was far better. I remember the movie lost my interest at times, but the book did not. I don’t remember laughing as much as I did while reading it versus watching the movie. That is because of the way it was written, a screenplay can’t capture what was going through Hunter S. Thompson’s mescaline filled head when he put pen to paper and words started coming out. 

They talked about how books shouldn’t be written to make money but to educate and fuel the world and I agree with that. When writing a book, one should truly be passionate about what he or she is writing about. That will just make the writing all that much better. I was shocked to see from the film that the lady went from uploading her book online hoping for someone to take a chance on it  to the New York Times Best Seller List. That is pretty remarkable and goes to show you don’t need to be a famous writer to make it big.