I really don't know what real books are. The books I know about are ones that have several pages bound together with writing and/or pictures inside. They tell a story, or inform you about some kind of subject. I don't know of any books that I wouldn't consider real. Well, maybe that book J.K. Rowling hand wrote only a few copies of that is supposedly another Harry Potter story but is too selfish to let the world in on.
I've never really been interested in visual texts, because they have always seemed childish and nerdy to me. I've always thought of little boys with sticky fingers as the main demographic of comic book readers. I've never entertained the idea that they had any sort of adult material or interest in them. However, I do like the movie Sin City and I know that was a graphic novel. I've also always thought visual texts were for people without enough imagination to read a novel without pictures. However, I am willing to have my mind changed.
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"I've also always thought visual texts were for people without enough imagination to read a novel without pictures."
I have also expressed this same sentiment many times in the past. I held many of the same assumptions that you did regarding these texts, many were hard to overcome. I appreciate your honesty and look forward to reading more of your blogs Emily!
I completely agree with your post, it seems as if we cant really put a definition on what is a real book, but i feel you on the fact that i imagined little boys with sticky fingers when i think of comic books too. I feel i do think a comic book is a real book, it has book in the name but i would agree it was never my demographic growing up and its hard for me to relate perhaps...
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