Long before television and video games, or before comic books and D&D, novels were the new and scary form of entertainment. They were accused of corrupting the youth, of planting dangerous ideas into the heads of housewives, and distracting everyone from more serious, important books.
1889: too many newspapers, too many magazines, too many reviews, too many books, and that the disease of the age was distractionmerged1889
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