Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
It's not exclusively in the eye of the beholder, but it is in the eye of the beholder in a lot of important ways. I have a terminal degree in English, and I have much more interest in reading what little Timmy wrote in his notebook than I do in reading The Grapes of Wrath cover-to-cover (which I have done) or reading Moby Dick cover-to-cover (which I have not done). I have ADHD, and I live in the 21st century and I already understand much of thematic and innovational importance to those two things without actually reading them and appreciating "impressive" literature takes a backseat for me to reading about what's on our current kids' minds.

So for me, Timmy's journal would very likely be better. The value of the two is situationally and subjectively dependent. It can be said that the value of the two is subjective.
To be clear, I'm not referring to something's value, but to its artistic merit