tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post3350224567289385516..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: Reading irritations for a Saturday morningundinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-39244175211524227952017-10-28T19:00:07.845-07:002017-10-28T19:00:07.845-07:00xykademiqz--that article expressed so much about h...xykademiqz--that article expressed so much about how I feel about the "prose like chunky rocks" school of writing--thank you. <br /><br />heu mihi--Messiness keeps it interesting; otherwise, you want to make an allegory chart and be done with it. But at least your guys are dead :). <br /><br />Fie--Tired, yes, but Nazis are the only really safe bad guys because everyone hates them. Well, everyone sane. <br /><br />undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-17541467326976590342017-10-15T19:28:06.348-07:002017-10-15T19:28:06.348-07:00I'm really getting tired of anything that uses...I'm really getting tired of anything that uses the Nazis as the ultimate bad guys. Of course they were bad. But the good-guy-against-the-Nazis plot has been so repeated it's now really tiring. There are LOTS of other times in human history in which people were evil. If you want to write historic fiction, maybe find something that hasn't been done to death. <br /><br />No, I'm not a Nazi sympathizer. I think the Holocaust was sickeningly awful. WWII was terrible. I just feel like people could be more creative than recycling these ideas constantly. Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-88280585316252455862017-10-15T18:30:01.572-07:002017-10-15T18:30:01.572-07:00A few more offenders here:
https://www.theatlanti...A few more offenders here:<br /><br />https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/xykademiqzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306861394466282929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-82275758443533143602017-10-15T14:31:02.786-07:002017-10-15T14:31:02.786-07:00I'm going to name names: Alain de Lille. Richa...I'm going to name names: Alain de Lille. Richard of St. Victor. And anyone else with an overly well-thought-out allegory. (Frankly, The Divine Comedy fits into this category for me.) I need something messy to keep me going!heu mihihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529298049179816825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-63406577541651915272017-10-15T07:59:22.858-07:002017-10-15T07:59:22.858-07:00I'm with you on modern fiction -- as if no one...I'm with you on modern fiction -- as if no one can hope to be taken seriously as an author unless a character is raped, molested as a child, or lost a sibling to unspeakable abuse/murder. There is also the mom-gets-breast-cancer-and-dies or dad-leaves-cause-men-amirite childhood trauma. <br /><br />And this quote makes me want to kiss (electronically and platonically!) Fretful Porpentine: <br /><i>the trying-to-be-too-clever contemporary literary fiction. Also, pretty much all contemporary poetry with very rare exceptions.</i>xykademiqzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306861394466282929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-78906063051397333632017-10-14T20:48:46.328-07:002017-10-14T20:48:46.328-07:00Servetus--me, too! I know that's popular now, ...Servetus--me, too! I know that's popular now, but no. <br /><br />pat--that's hilarious and totally believable about reading to cats, and something I'm going to try the next time a narrator gets all down in the weeds about salvation by works versus salvation by grace (or fishbones). <br /><br />Fretful--I can't even imagine being in early modern studies because it'd be hard to ever get away from religious everything. And you have to actually pay attention to those angels dancing on the head of a pin doctrinal disputes! I'd almost rather read a travel book :). undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-74005114418029369092017-10-14T15:48:43.877-07:002017-10-14T15:48:43.877-07:00OMG, I am SO with you on the religious-everything ...OMG, I am SO with you on the religious-everything (not a good trait in an early modernist, alas) and the trying-to-be-too-clever contemporary literary fiction. Also, pretty much all contemporary poetry with very rare exceptions.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-84591847743805777762017-10-14T14:41:22.346-07:002017-10-14T14:41:22.346-07:00For my PhD, I had to read long detailed descriptio...For my PhD, I had to read long detailed descriptions of fish bones. Kid you not, sometimes I had to cover one eye because I was so bored I was seeing double. And I read it aloud to my cats, because that was the only thing that would keep me from skipping paragraphs.pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532518675955579561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-17136259320386457662017-10-14T12:03:10.030-07:002017-10-14T12:03:10.030-07:00Anything that involves apocalypticism / millennari...Anything that involves apocalypticism / millennarism / assigning current events to End Days patterns.Servetusnoreply@blogger.com