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Post by novastar6 on Jul 11, 2017 20:45:18 GMT
There are a lot of nonfiction books that address the issue of video game/screen addiction, but are there any fiction books that deal with this subject among the protagonists?
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Post by mmexis on Jul 12, 2017 4:42:24 GMT
There's a kid's book called "The boy with square eyes" that was about a kid that was addicted to TV. boy with square eyes |
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 12, 2017 4:53:19 GMT
I've read a couple stories that dealt with the idea of TV addiction, The TV Kid by Betsy Byars, and one section in Jerry Spinelli's The Library Card. TV seems to be the extent of where writers have commonly gone in this direction, but if somebody's done something newer and more up to date dealing with computers, social media, video games, etc., I haven't seen anything, which actually surprises me. I'd think somebody somewhere could put a fictional spin on it.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 12, 2017 8:19:33 GMT
I've read a couple stories that dealt with the idea of TV addiction, The TV Kid by Betsy Byars, and one section in Jerry Spinelli's The Library Card. TV seems to be the extent of where writers have commonly gone in this direction, but if somebody's done something newer and more up to date dealing with computers, social media, video games, etc., I haven't seen anything, which actually surprises me. I'd think somebody somewhere could put a fictional spin on it. i am surprised TV shows don't deal with these very ideas more at all. |
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Post by filmfan95 on Jul 20, 2017 15:56:55 GMT
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory deals with screen addiction, with the character of Mike Teevee. And the modern adaptations of it are interesting, because they update it to also deal with addiction to computers and such.
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 20, 2017 18:02:22 GMT
But again, this is just largely dealing with TV addiction. Today the term 'screen addiction' is a broad genre, it covers TV, computers, video games, cell phones, etc. And it just seems like a melting pot of potential for conspiracy stories, horror stories, sci-fi stories, you'd think there'd be something more than just stories from 20-40 years ago about too much TV.
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