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Liquid Communism posted:I fully admit that I am bored to tears by writing for the sake of wordplay if it is not in service to a compelling narrative. The impression that the author has decided to self-consciously attempt to impress the audience by beating them liberally about the head with a thesaurus is not something I look for in literature. Mel Mudkiper posted:Name a book that does this. 
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the old ceremony posted:fartasy fartassy
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Reading well written things hones your sensitivity to language and since thought is expressed through language, reading literature makes you a better thinker. In western Europe at least, reading and rhetorical proficiency has sharply declined and probably as a result of that, the public use of language has become uglier and more ideological. It's this process that brought us hideous words like "innovation", lazy nerd phrases like "X is a thing" and people who spell "army" with a capital letter.
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Rothfart. Please tell me that we can all agree that this is garbage.
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Hate Fibration posted:So what advantages do literature have over some decent non-fiction? The idea that it enriches your understanding of the world and the human condition always seemed misplaced to me given that what you are really learning is what some artist thinks about how things work. Which isn't exactly very compelling. What? Learning how an artist views the world is incredibly compelling and one of the biggest reasons we consume art. e: genuine question, what do the books you read offer that you enjoy if its apparently not either beautiful writing, interesting characters or the author's ideas about anything at all. DisDisDis fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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