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Boing posted:The word 'meritorious' is dumb because nobody ever gives a coherent definition of it or justifies exactly why high literature is better than trashy genre fiction. One is not better than the other, they appeal to different tastes, and it's insane to try and push your tastes on somebody else actually, one is totally and self evidently superior, and many people have bad taste that should be destroyed
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PJOmega posted:Thank you for the link, I try not to keep a mental catalogue of genre fiction writer's weird attitudes towards sex and people. You should do that
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kenny powerzzz posted:I don't remember. Definitely not the worst thing you could do though. I watched a kid use a microphone stand as in impromptu slide at an open jam night once. With a borrowed Les Paul. That one ended quickly. I like to play the guitar with sandpaper and an electric drill.
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Did you guys think that a fantasy author would have Good views on women or something
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BananaNutkins posted:Well, that and with almost any other art form it's a matter of seconds for the layman to see whether the artist is any good or not. that's not really true at all, what about all the lay people who can't tell if abstract paintings are good or bad? or like contemporary academic music?
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:"Genre fiction" is an almost entirely modern development despite those kind of false equivocations. It's easily dismissed simply by noting that it's actually impossible to name the "genres" that Chaucer and Dickens wrote in. Thank you.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Everyone should read The Traitor Baru Cormorant. yeah let me just read a book written by a book barn poster
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Oct 3, 2017 10:58
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YA books aren't actually read primarily by teenagers, their largest audience is adults from like late 20s to mid 30s.
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Oct 4, 2017 04:52
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Solice Kirsk posted:That seems weird. Then again I know a bunch of 30 something year olds that still play Final Fantasy where you're almost always playing as a 15 year old boy. Nope, they're both weird. its not really weird that a bunch of adults who live in the contemporary world want to retreat into escapism with a heavy focus on 'worldbulding' and simple black and white morality, although it is obviously bad.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:If that's true, it's a very recent development. Source? this study is from 2012: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/53937-new-study-55-of-ya-books-bought-by-adults.html here's a probably less rigorous thing from the denver public library circa 2014 with higher figures for adults versus young adults: http://www.denverpost.com/2014/06/19/more-adults-than-youths-are-reading-young-adult-fiction/ Corky Romanovsky posted:That wasn't a critique of the book, moron. nice to see people willing to discuss books in the book discussion forum
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Ccs posted:You didn't even critique the book though. You just read a summary and called it drivel out of hand. So I posted a similarly snarky and vapid response. the summary makes the book sound bad
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