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It's like I always say, the distinction is basically one of marketing rather than any quantifiable difference in content between real literature and genre fiction.
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All I'm learning looking at this painting is what water lilies look like when you have bad eye sight, which isn't exactly very compelling
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Jul 23, 2017 13:19
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People won't mock you so much if you don't say very stupid things.
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Jul 23, 2017 19:03
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You can spend money on "real literature" books as much as you want but I guarantee I've got the better deal by having surgery to transform me into a baby again so I can lie in a cot and paw ineffectually at a mobile
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Jul 24, 2017 12:09
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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. It's a good thing you conjured up the existence of those books entirely in your brain then
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Jul 27, 2017 10:05
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learnincurve posted:I have no strong opinion on this debate but reading Gadsby By Ernest Vincent Wright is exactly like being repeatedly walloped upside the head with a thesaurus. You know why that is though, right?
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Aug 1, 2017 21:31
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I'd like to give someone the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn't bring up Gadsby without knowing the central gimmick of Gadsby, but people in TBB can be really incredibly stupid
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Aug 1, 2017 21:32
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I don't think the guy complaining that literature has too many long words was specifically concerned with Oulipo
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