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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Also while we're at it could someone explain why the Great Gatsby's considered good?
I didn't read the book, but I had to watch the movie in middle school and I don't really get the point.
Leonardo Dicaprio makes money smuggling alcohol, makes up a bunch of stories as to how he got it, then spends all that money throwing parties in hopes his teenage sweetheart comes back to him while her chad husband shoots the shit about phrenology with spiderman?
And then some guy who I think was in some kind of weird polycule swinger orgy with Dicaprio and the others kills him because his wife gets run over?
Seems kind of like an r-slured story honestly.
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!familyman is right, is not a good book (senseless plot, melodramatic, forced, the characters suck and are all almost alien like but I'm not sure if that's on purpose). It got mixed reviews and poor sales after being published in 1925 and it only became a commercial success during WW2. The Council of Books in Wartime selected Gatsby on their list so it became a mass produced slop for soldiers to read (apparently the most popular among them), that's the only reason it became famous.
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Man, you really can just force slop onto people until they like it
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general disdain for judging books by plot but the character thing is a fair point, its just a very well written book, the words are good
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the great gatsby imho is the most over rated story ever whether you read the book or watch the movies. Dumb and boring i hate it
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I never read it either so cannot help ya there but lets ask !bookworms , why is the Great Gatsby a famous book even when accounting for all the points the commenter above me made?
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Great Gassbie, any other work by Fitzgerald, Hemingway or Dostoevsky are the same as Harry Potter. They were the JK Rowling of their time. If you think they are better, they are not.
Literatard is subjective and there is no objective standard.
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wait for it I have an even more controversial take. Catcher in the Rye is an annoying book and is kind of substandard.
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I haven't read that either but agree with you.
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The Great Gatsby is a story about the corruption of the American Dream. Gatsby's dream is about being a part of old money high society, and in the pursuit of his dream he is ruined.
He throws his lavish parties, hoping that he will get the love of the girl he once loved, that never loved him back.
In the pursuit of his dream, he becomes the criminal that he is ashamed of becoming. He has no self worth, no place in the world he wishes to be a part of. He is just a puppet for his dream.
In pursuit of his dream, he is also responsible for the destruction of Tom and Daisy Buchanan's marriage, the deaths of three people, the destruction of the dreams of the Wilsons, and a ruined dream of the Buchanans, and the death of himself.
I've never read the book, but that's my interpretation of it.
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