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The 'Reinvention' of Literature

What what what the fuck.  I'm sorry.  But there's some guy making video games out of classic literature like Wuthering Heights and Crime and Punishment.   Not that this is so inherently bad, but it's meant to take the Kindle and similar bisnatch to "the next level". 

The guy says the new ways to consume literature is structured just like a regular book with words and pages and such.  But this won't get non-readers into the new e-reader medium.  We have to make a video game/ movie out of it. 

This is a solution?  What is happening?

I'm imagining cut scenes and dialogue boxes to replace normal text and imagined scenes.  Are we really becoming this unimaginative?  Are we becoming this lazy as a society that we can't sit down and read a book? 

I'm not expecting people who just don't like reading to pick up War and Peace, but come on people.  Let's try something that will not continue to shorten our attention spans to that of a tetse fly.  There are magazines and graphic novels and picture books and less literary topics (dare I say it? *cough* Twilight) to ease people into the world of proper reading. 

Maybe this is a better question:  why would people not want to read anymore?  Are automatic information downloads really going to be that much more fun than escaping to another world by way of words and your imagination?