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Gamers and Readers

Started by David Johansen, January 29, 2020, 10:42:50 PM

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February 10, 2020, 02:50:31 AM
90% of novels written after the '40s are probably garbage. And I mean the 1740s.
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#46
February 10, 2020, 12:21:46 PM
Quote from: jhkim;1121377OK, I think we are talking past each other. I don't want to put words into your mouth, and it's not even clear to me that our tastes in fiction differ very much.


Fair enough. There's good and bad works of every age, for sure, and I agree that time has a way of weeding out much (though not all) of the schlock.

I don't feel that modern writers and readers are any better or any worse overall than in the 1970s. The worrisome problem is that on average, people are reading *less*. I feel like that's the major issue to confront.

I wasn't attempting to mis-cast your position either.  If I did so, I apologize.  I think you're right that we're in fundamental agreement and were just talking past each other.
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