Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.
Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.
How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.
Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?
I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.
What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.
Conclusion:
In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.
Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!
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Let people enjoy things.
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How dare they enjoy things I don't enjoy that means something is wrong with them this is not okay I am not doing okay stop them STOP THEM!!!
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rare paki W
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What's your favorite book?
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Idk but I liked Words of Radiance I guess.
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I'll let you enjoy it without commenting.
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Thank you for letting me enjoy things.
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I found your problem
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I laughed.
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It because of white women
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Thank you for your input proudsexy Indian dude. We will soon catch up to the Americans ( In GDP PPP per capita ) and then create the next stage of great novels.
I am pretty sure India is going to keep growing in nominal GDP per capita for the next 30 years, do you figure we would be able to keep growing after that, taking into account that all civilizations with negative population growth in the end appear to fall into stagnation and decline so far?
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As children become a smaller portion of the population, you would expect children's books to drop in the ratings.
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what?
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I don't really judge people for reading slop but at least recognize that it's slop, I mean c'mon.
the da vinci code is on the list
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It's long and therefore must be good. Nobody would dedicate thousands of pages to slop
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Sure they would, if it's masturbatury pretentiousness like Finnegan's Wake......
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look, every audience is a popular audience. If the best books are decided democratically, it's going to be slop. Same for the "best movies" "best games" and any other "best (popular) media". Like if you poll classical music listeners on the best piece, they're going to say the fricking four seasons.
Go to a site with better gatekeeping and I guarantee they'll have better lists. The dance of the world-spirit hasn't made media worse, you're on GOODREADS
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The Four Seasons still fricks though, it just has some of the most recognizable pieces so everyone knows it.
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ok i checked rottentomatoes for a similar list and fair enough. they still dont have a harry potter equivalent in top 10 though.
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But movies and games are also lacking in depth and high quality, especially now.
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True but now compared to the 20th century.
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Why is George Orwell's 1984 in the 21st Century Top Ten twice?
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Must be a sign that we're living in 1984
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where?
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I knew harry potter would be there lmao. Alan moore right again !comicshitters
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What did Alan Moore say?
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Humanity is reaching its peak in multiple industries and we are going to reach a stagnation point once again and AI is us crossing our fingers that we can set up a permanent 2% growth per year state of existence forever.
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Or maybe the list is just shit?
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sent you an rdrama cares message. i know things must seem dark right now
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thanks bestie
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Classics must withstand the test of time. Contemporary pieces of art, however... Come on man, you know this.
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If Plato was born today he would be a college dropout. Things must get better forever.
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Snapshots:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7.Best_Books_of_the_21st_Century:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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