Taking Sides: Books vs. Music

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Which medium do you derive the most pleasure from, books or music?

Which would you miss the most if it were cruelly taken from you?

― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Friday, 6 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Book are more useful, music, more passion-inspiring, at least for me. As much as I love a good short story or novel or manifesto, I am not as affected. The big exception is WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson. There is more emotion in that book than anything I have ever processed, including my own feelings!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 6 September 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Music for me. I think it's my short attention span.

― Richard (fractal), Saturday, 7 September 2002 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I get a lot more emotional about music than books, although I find books equally intellectually stimulating. I'd miss music more, I think.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 7 September 2002 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I am allowed to carry on singing the songs I already know to myself for the rest of my life? I hope so. I don't think I could face a world without books.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 7 September 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Books absolutely for me. I love music but books are much bigger journeys than music. I like reading to music sometimes. I rarely get the whole suspension of reality thing with music.

For me this is like comparing lollies (music) with all other food and drink (books). You can't really compare them - as much as I like lollies I would never choose them at the expense of all other food and drink.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 7 September 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I could stand not listening to music but not playing it would be quite difficult. I'd still choose books though.

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 7 September 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd probably kill myself if deprived of either. I experience them quite differently: books commonly occupy me totally, for a time, in a way that music rarely does, but the intensity of pleasure I get from music is unmatched by any book I've read. I can live without ever having the 1001 Nights before me again, but I can't imagine doing without Al Green's great moments for a whole month.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 September 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Music, totally and utterly. I can't go out and dance to books on a Saturday can I? Legendary Detroit author performs tonight in Dublin, jesus maybe if there was no music people would go out and drink and take drugs at book festivals. Deep man.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 7 September 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

not to mention that "ILB" is such a totally clumsy acronym

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 7 September 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

ILL (I Love Literature) is great, though. And ILN (I Love Novels) is as good as ILM.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 September 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't *need* music (as in the stuff created by people using instruments & voice and then recorded on to cds and other such media).

I actually interpreted this question as referring to that sort of music, oh, and live bands too I suppose. I did not interpret it as meaning no more singing, or being musical when alone or amongst friends or no more birdsong etc. just as I did not interpret no more books as meaning no more magazines, newspapers, web pages, comic books, spoken word, telly, movies and other story-telling media.

― toraneko (toraneko), Sunday, 8 September 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I can always remeber what records I listened to but can never remember what I've read when I was drunk the night before so..Music

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 8 September 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I would rather make do with writing my own books to fill in the gaps left by the few books I could not live without than having to make my own records. I find more records indispensible, but then I have a higher opinion of myself as a writer, so ha ha ha.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 8 September 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

books.

― isadora, Sunday, 8 September 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

music for me. on the whole, more records have invoked a lot more passion and emotion in me than books. there have been a few books that have given me the same types of feelings as music, but only a handful.

plus, it's been ages since i read an actual book (computer books don't count) and i'm not going crazy yet, but if i had been deprived of music for this long, i'd have totally lost the plot by now.

― sand.y, Sunday, 8 September 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

pile of books = taller and more stable than pile of all music formats i have so far encountered

this is much more urgent and key than you are thinking, at least until i get another two walls of shelves built

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 8 September 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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