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May 14, 2019 16:20
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Mel Mudkiper posted:the most miserable experience of my life.
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May 14, 2019 17:52
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Post pics
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Jun 4, 2019 09:30
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chernobyl kinsman posted:herbert's prose should be banned under the geneva conventions wait thats not only published but also a genre classic? care to post what comes after?
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Jun 15, 2019 23:12
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"prose style" is funny to me idk why
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Jun 17, 2019 09:11
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no the pleonastic phrasing I suppose I do know why
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Jun 18, 2019 07:09
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Good. (Sorry, my initial post sounded ruder than I meant it to. Really just thought it sounded funny.)
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Jun 19, 2019 08:42
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Hahahahaha I just read that and thought of doing the same thing. drat.
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Jun 29, 2019 19:14
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The burning was what stood out to me as well. The offhandedness creeps me out tbh
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Jun 29, 2019 22:38
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it is and that loving sucks good prose or gtfo
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Jun 30, 2019 23:03
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I'm not! I just meant that I don't give a work a pass if it isn't written well, even if the concept is interesting. Not saying that you do, or even that mine is a justified stance to take, but I personally can't really get past that. I don't read genre fiction much... e: o wait you did say it again though
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Jun 30, 2019 23:52
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I mean when you quoted pseudanonymous. I hadn't caught that when I first posted gtfo
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Jul 1, 2019 00:28
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Franchise-affiliated children's books are quite popular and get translated a bunch because they make publishers money they can use to fund actually good children's books afaik LEGO and Minecraft books etc do really well too and have a similar function
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Jul 2, 2019 18:48
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Lex Neville posted:I don't read genre fiction much... less laughter posted:hmkay quote:a startling white like a quivering moustache I feel vindicated. But seriously, thanks for your post OP  This is why I have the thread bookmarked. The bewilderment keeps drawing me in, just not enough to read an entire book like this myself (but honestly if my negativity re: genre fiction is annoying, I'll stop posting, though I'll always gladly discuss the stylistic merits of whichever excerpts others post).As a side note: granted, narcissism is hard as poo poo to get right, but one sure-fire way to gently caress it up is to humblebrag in third-person narration and especially by way of the clichéd relative clause + mere
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Jul 5, 2019 21:52
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not entirely sure what was so terrible about that specific post tbh
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Jul 23, 2019 19:46
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I thought he just shed some light on the origins of LitRPG when some other dude asked about it, said some of its aspects work decently well in other forms of media, but not in literature, and that he believed that the proliferation of those other forms might explain current trends when it comes to lovely writing? the only opinion relating to print media is that statblocks are "absolutely terrible in actual novels/literature". I mean, yeah, "how do you even know about that other poo poo dude?", but other than that 
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Jul 23, 2019 23:11
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to be fair, there's plenty of good detective fiction. the merits are usually little to do with the genre though
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Oct 17, 2019 20:04
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genuine question: how common is it for a genre fiction narrative to be fully contained within, say, 80k words?TheGreatEvilKing posted:That's quite literally what fan discussion looks like. No one cites these books for beautiful prose, it's all theories and labyrinthine plot speculation about who killed Asmodean or what new magic Rand learned to light his pipe (seriously). The cover of my copy of A Memory of Light literally lists several fansites. The intended discourse is not about the prose or the nature of evil, you're supposed to talk about what a Strong Independent Woman Aviendha is (for getting naked all the time). I linked the publisher reread because it's just regurgitating TVTropes. this is a great post by the way
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Nov 20, 2019 23:28
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another great post. thanks sham @fauna i see what you mean but little of what i read myself seems to suffer from what you're describing. it seems primarily typical of genre fiction, hence my question Lex Neville fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Nov 21, 2019 00:12
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gently caress i hate that word so much
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Nov 23, 2019 08:21
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what defines the dragon though
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Dec 5, 2019 21:32
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review != blurb
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Dec 6, 2019 17:05
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though to be fair i wouldn't be surprised if genre fiction had entire reviews on its dust jackets, considering its authors use 4 million words to write what could reasonably be done in 40 thousand or so
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Dec 6, 2019 17:15
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:that is the state of popular criticism nowadays. I don't think that's fair. It depends entirely on the publication. That said, no review containing more than zero "delicious"-es is worthy of an audience.
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Dec 8, 2019 18:33
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I take no issue with prologues tbh, as long as not everything it contains (contained) boils down to in-your-face ~foreshadowing~
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Jan 6, 2020 21:02
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to be fair I only read those two quotes so I probably shouldn't have said "everything"
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Jan 6, 2020 21:13
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anilEhilated posted:is there something that binds magical realism to its place of origin? no that was pedantically purist
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Jan 7, 2020 14:26
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Based on what's been posted I don't see how it's speculative fiction at all tbh, to be pedantic myself
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Jan 7, 2020 15:32
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thank you derp
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Jan 7, 2020 16:21
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I see the distinction between speculative fiction and SF/F as one based on a degree of (scientific or otherwise) plausability within our world
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Jan 9, 2020 16:14
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poo poo, I was about to post, "then again, I might be a literary bigot" but you beat me to it
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Jan 9, 2020 16:22
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but what if youre not
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Jan 9, 2020 23:53
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Speculative fiction as a blanket term is dumb as poo poo. I'm with Atwood.
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Jan 10, 2020 08:49
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eh, I'd say the onus is definitely on the other side and that "supporters" is a disingenuously charged word choice
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Feb 2, 2020 01:18
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chernobyl kinsman posted:answer the heidegger question I mean in this instance you're not wrong but god drat dude calm down
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Feb 2, 2020 01:59
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I don't even know what the heidegger question is. It's up a little, but SBB put it better in the post directly above it
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Feb 2, 2020 02:01
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Gotcha. No, the point is that there's no need to read anything "as a study in" in the first place. There can be value in taking background knowledge into account while reading, but unwillingness to move past that information during, or not reading at all because of it - while it might not even be relevant to both your enjoyment of the novel as well as its cultural worth at large - is restricting in a way that offers no value at all. e: beaten by miles mb
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Feb 2, 2020 02:21
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HIJK posted:Like I'm curious but I'm also hesitant about investing too much attention into an author if they're a fascist or not lol
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Feb 2, 2020 12:18
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don't pirate books 
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Feb 2, 2020 16:21
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