Our book club has actually noted that more and more mainstream books are written for low attention span. Repeating details ad nauseum and simplifying the plot significantly. So I don't think books are immune to this automatically.
I generally do not read anything from this century and definitely bothing mainstream, but just going trough what ibooks and book stores offer, it seems that it really is bunch of romantasia and other porny pulp for mainly women (supposedly because men have stopped reading completely). Sure some of it might be ok or even good, I wouldn’t know, but the sheer amount of it makes me doubt anyone actually reads them in full.
Sure, in the 90’s everyone bought John Grisham’s newest thriller which they started and never finished, but at least it kinda had a plot, characters and maybe it tried to even say something (although I might be pushing a bit too far there). It wasn’t good, but at least you read a story, not just barely disguised fanfiction of werewolves having sex.
Or maybe I am just an old man and have no idea what kids are up to. Time for your meds granpa.
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Sure, in the 90’s everyone bought John Grisham’s newest thriller which they started and never finished, but at least it kinda had a plot, characters and maybe it tried to even say something (although I might be pushing a bit too far there). It wasn’t good, but at least you read a story, not just barely disguised fanfiction of werewolves having sex.
Or maybe I am just an old man and have no idea what kids are up to. Time for your meds granpa.