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@matt_olma If you can’t see the humor inherent in this clusterfuck of a cosmos, idk what to tell you. If we saw the world for what it truly is, we would be laughing hysterically all the time.
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Apocrypha
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@Apocryphal_Book
Yeah, well, y'know, that's just like uh your opinion, man
Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@thePartyPartyUS @tamarawinter Form and content are fundamentally inseparable in Art, you philistine lol
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@tamarawinter when you are judging the form and not the content, you are lost
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“Few safeguards” and all you need is a sentient editor
Benjamin Kunkel@kunktation
How about taste?
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@johnsperanza @molochofficial THAT WAS A METAPHOR, DID YOU CATCH IT, LOOK LOOK ANOTHER METAPHOR
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@molochofficial turning a big dial that says “figurative language” on it and constantly looking back at the audience etc.
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this is actually a very good point of reference for those who aren't yet familiar with chatgpt's "writerly" style, because it showcases pretty much every tendency and tick
barry pierce@BarryPierce
Intrigued by this latest book world drama. A popular femgore novel, Shy Girl by Mia Ballard (published by Headline in the UK) has been accused of being either partially or wholly written by ChatGPT. A Reddit post (reddit.com/r/horrorlit/s/…) and a huge video essay make the case.
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@pourfairelevide (shedding a tear while I decide which page of The Tunnel to tear out and use as kindling)
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he’s right. you need to lock in and start buying lots of 700+ page indie press novels in translation to get through the oncoming nuclear winter
Ahmed Askary@pashadelics
People really believe this won’t escalate further, that oil won’t hit $150+, and a global recession isn’t coming. The best time to lock in was yesterday.
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@LatFilosof @writingenjoyer Her original joke is about d*ck size
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@Apocryphal_Book @writingenjoyer Please do tell me 😁
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@JeffGreason @plzcallmechrist Yeah, and Lewis wrote Till We Have Faces, not just Narnia. If *all* you consume is for children, you are functionally a child.
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@Apocryphal_Book @plzcallmechrist "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
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The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.
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@bookbeduion @Mmm1814671 It’s not common for me, because I have cultivated my discerning taste to such an extent that it is extremely rare for something even mediocre to make it to my shelf
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@Apocryphal_Book @Mmm1814671 If you're judging books based on 2 pages I don't think you are giving them enough of a chance . I understand judging a book every once in a while by the first two pages but if it's common for you idk what to tell you.
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This is so insane . Suddenly it's evil to go into a book blind also I hate when people call books slop they're not slop .
the thicc husband & father@lukeisamazing
at some point, you have to take responsibility and stop reading shit like this. it’s fine, we all enjoy slop every now and again but you’ve gotta have more self-respect than this
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@bookbeduion @Mmm1814671 You can sniff out a book like this within literally 2 pages. Anything past that is on you.
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@Mmm1814671 How would the person know it's not great if they don't read it though
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@flklrprentiss @lukeisamazing Why do you think there’s a definitional distinction between “commercial fiction” and “literary fiction?”
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@Apocryphal_Book @lukeisamazing troll lol obviously some books are going to be more sophisticated but that doesn’t mean the “easier” books are not literature
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at some point, you have to take responsibility and stop reading shit like this. it’s fine, we all enjoy slop every now and again but you’ve gotta have more self-respect than this
jude ⚢@lcthlorien
did i just find an ad inside a book 😭
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@flklrprentiss @lukeisamazing No, not all books are literature.
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@Apocryphal_Book @lukeisamazing yes, a book is a form of literature
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@Apocryphal_Book @lukeisamazing which should consist of trying new literature you’ve seen being praised. what’s your point?
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Sure there is. Gotta get in on that Cosmic Joke
Daniel Hentschel@danghentschel
No longer a comedian. Nothing funny about this world
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it’s funny how televisual mccarthys novels are, given the prose style. lots of (bad) writing just describes imaginary film shots, but mccarth manages to somehow write the shots themselves, borrowing the beats and rhythms, without falling into the trap of describing a movie
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@JeffGreason @plzcallmechrist Are you literally 12 years old?
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@plzcallmechrist Umm. No? E.R. Burroughs, R.E. Howard, R.A. Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle, C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Tom Clancy, James Hogan, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, and many, many, many others.
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@flklrprentiss @lukeisamazing Take responsibility for the deliberate and disciplined development of your own mind
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@lukeisamazing take responsibly what for? reading new books that have good reviews online? istg you people are just saying things. & OP dnf’ed the book
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@SNE72420886 @scotthraines Get a load of this guy who’s never even heard of Suttree
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Mccarthy is the blueprint, the archetype, of faux literary fluff. Endless gore for shock value in the place of conflict that resolves moral questions (ie, good vs evil), nihilism mistaken for profundity.
His style is overly verbose, his characters are intentionally amoral (because shades of grey is the "sophistacated" modern revolt against "antiquated" ideas like genuine heroism)...There are practically no redeeming qualities. You can pick up a Joe Ambercrombie, or Michael Punke or Martin, or any novel off the shelf at any big box book store, and find a book functionally identical to McCarthy. All the same slop.
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Cormac McCarthy is a good metric for how well you can read—it’s not the faux literary fluff that gets praised today, but it’s also not readily apparent to the reader. So much is said in what is unsaid, so you have to really read. For example:
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@UntellectuaI @bradkelly You messed up. The first 100 pages are entirely different from the rest of the book. If you liked Solenoid’s memoir-esque narrative, that’s the bulk of it after you pass that initial gauntlet
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@bradkelly I gave this one 100 pages and decided to DNF. This and Bolano's 2666 are two I have bookmarked for a second attempt in a few years. It's a process, haha
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