Cellphone Novels

Are dumb.

So this New York Times article is saying that Cellphone Novels, yes novels written and read by cellphone, are becoming published into actual books and in some cases, into cinematic adventures.

"But I’d like cellphone novels to be recognized as a genre.” - A cellphone novelist would like this, but these novels are derived from an interest that isn't genuine, just instilled from being on a cellphone, as Chiaki Ishihara, and expert in Japanese literature states below.

"This tool called the cellphone instilled in them a desire to write.”

Apparently some cellphone novelists text so much that their bills rise up to or over $1,000. Yeah that's worth it, one thousand dollars spent where you could just write the same words, ridiculous.

The article quotes, "Almost all the authors are young women delving into affairs of the heart, spiritual descendants." With that quote, it can be concluded that the "genre" of cellphone novels are focused and pin pointed around young women talking about love, and the article said that the writing is composed of cellphone abbreviations and choppy sentances, and millions of people are reading this. They are essentially discouraging intellectual reading like legitimate books.

“They don’t read works by professional writers because their sentences are too difficult to understand, their expressions are intentionally wordy, and the stories are not familiar to them,” she said.

“On other hand, I understand how older Japanese don’t want to recognize these as novels. The paragraphs and the sentences are too simple, the stories are too predictable. . ."

A point of reading is to increase your knowledge and vocabulary, if these cellphone novels become such a hit around the world and everybody is reading sentances like, "omg she liked him lol" instead of, "She felt the heartfelt affection every time she saw him.", then there goes a source of advancing your vocabulary.

Second to last sentance says that a cellphone novelist texted too much that her thumb started bleeding, no more words need be spoken.

If so many people seem to enjoy cellphone novels they have every right to enjoy them, and if the stories are enticing enough to be made into actual books and films then they can't be bad 100%.