Something, something, Lego study...This makes me unbelievably sad.
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Twilight ruined an entire generation of female readers.According to this bitch in the reel and 15.7K Instagram users, we might as well not even have names for our female protagonists because they are
Ok "Literally Me". YOU are what is ruining the book market. First off, I know what you read already, clearly its smut and not anything engaging. Second your IQ and that of your followers can't be above 90 if you really can't read about SOMEONE ELSE because you want to have a experience you cant have IRL.This makes me unbelievably sad.
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#OwnVoices may be to blame for this, as well, because they literally dictated who could write about whom, as in you, as a white man, couldn't make your main character an Asian or black or a woman, period. Someone who'd be in these YA spaces like this chick with the thousand dicks stare would've been programmed into believing that on top of having Main Character Syndrome. It's fucked.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'll make the main character a tarantula if I want. Young adult has been a fucking curse upon literacy. I would blame The Strangers, but the main boom came around The Hunger Games. Hasn't been the same since. Books like the Count of Monte Cristo could NEVER be published under these conditions. Straight white male MC, slave owner, does morally dubious shit on the regular, a 1800's era stock trader bro- my nigga Edmond Dantes is all kinds of cancled
While I think you've had some naysayers decry it for not being politically correct, as far as I know, those very same women still get hot and bothered over Edmond because he's the very epitome of the kind of man they actually want irl. Think it helps that, thus far, a hot guy has played him in every adaptation. Also the book gets "forgiven" simply because Eugénie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly are one of the first lesbian characters in modern literature but nobody sensible remembers the book for that.
I remember the lesbians vaguely. They were a plot point in a *grabs book, checks page count* 1065 page book I suppose. As for Edmond... no. Just no. You cannot fix him ladies. That's kinda the point. He successfully takes out his anger issues on everyone that fucked him over- revenge is kinda the name of the game. There's no fixing that.
Are we sure this isn't satire? Because that's exactly what satire of this mindset would look like.This makes me unbelievably sad.
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I gather from old posts that you work in the industry, though I have no idea in what capacity, so this may be an unanswerable question from your perspective—is there anyone in mainstream publishing who looks at the complete abandonment of male-oriented literature as a problem, an unserved market?
If I'm understanding @Boston Brand correctly, established publishing houses live off their back catalogs, meaning they can squander vast sums of money on USAID-style grift without a care in the world. It's basically a trust fund laundered through an IP suite held by a corporation.
Mate have you not been paying attention to anything in the last 15 years?
Ark Press exists, and they seem to be pretty smart. They're offering a ten thousand dollar advance for the winner of a novel contest they are running. Seems like a smart way to drum up submissions. Hell, they even state out right that you don't have to win to get a publishing deal if they like your work.
Here's the thing once you've been in publishing you'll learn quickly: you don't need submissions. You don't want submissions. You'll have a pile so big of so much unreadable crap that it's more than a full time job. I know this because I was a front line "Slush reader" at the early stages of my career. The incompetence in writing is so ridiculous I can't even do it justice talking about it.
Because you want to actually give people a chance you nitwit. Bring in fresh blood. Holy shit you're dumb.
Why do men always complain that they are being oppressed by a lack of pulpy literature being written in Current Year for them? Men are already occupied with a whole industry of multi-billion dollar movies, TV shows, and video games made by them just for them. Women are getting big in publishing because it's their only recourse in this situation, and it's much easier to enter than film or game development. Teenage boys aren't refusing to read because they're getting Twilight and bow and arrow princess books shoved down their throats; they'd simply rather play video games and watch porn. Do you know how many teachers and parents have tried and failed to encourage teenage boys to read? This is only a market that's being abandoned because it disappeared. If you want to revive it, stop complaining and show there's demand for it with your wallets.
Most dudebros wouldn't care about these guys if not for the movie adaptations they self-insert into, so this isn't a good example.
Academia is running out of things to say about Shakespeare at this point. I just never cared about Shakespeare (though I did like The Tempest), and that's fine; not everyone has to like everything. I do care about ancient authors, especially in the original language; I'm sure we'll never run out of things to say about them.
I hate being forced into plain English writing. Yes, spamming long words and complex sentences can be used to make yourself seem smarter than you actually are and wallow in self-indulgence, but good purple prose has substance behind it, and using purple prose properly is a skill that takes far more effort than plain English and often enhances the work. Even academic papers benefit from a little purple prose at the right time.
it's not a good one, but it's a contemporary one. American Psycho is a slow burn of a book and the film is a perfect adaptation.
I mean, it's Shakespeare. "Critical Theory" will find new ways to pull it apart. I do agree with the fact that clumsily making teens focus on analyzing Shakespeare or other works on such an asinine level will kill interest in reading. I've met guys who've said that it just took one shitty teacher to kill their interest in books.
It's a really neat skill to have, but if you give me the choice between hackneyed purple prose and utilitarian prose, I'll go with the latter.
I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was 13 and I really enjoyed it. The worst things in any novel are endless descriptions (Jules Verne is nasty, nasty, nasty for this), romance, and overly character-driven stuff, and that's not unique to teenage boys -- anyone can appreciate a fast-paced, decisive story in a cool setting. I also really liked The Invisible Man at the time for the same reasons; it blew my mind.
In retrospect, I can see why Shakespeare is pushed -- it's all the good parts of literature in one and a good example for literary devices and whatnot -- but it also comes across as stodgy, boring, and overly melodramatic. Shakespeare is like musical scales; they can get really boring and obsessively autistic at times, but they have the basics.
