[ SECRET POST #5565 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5565 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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06. [OP warned for graphic description of genitalia]




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[The Lost Tomb/Daomu Biji]


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09. [SPOILERS for Falcon and the Winter Soldier]




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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I guess this is true if you get your book recs from fandom twitter, which, yes, is full of stupid books written by barely-adults for other barely-adults with social media brainrot.

If you get your book recs from reviews in newspapers and literary magazines, turns out there are still plenty of books by and for adults being written, published and read.

[(Anonymous)]

This is such a limited view of what the literary landscape should look like, though - you divide all of literature up into two or three big buckets and then everything within those buckets becomes increasingly homogenized and same-y.

I don't like mainstream fiction. I like genre fiction. I should be able to find diverse styles of books within genre fiction that I like. Genre fiction shouldn't all have the same algorithmic feeling, like it was written to order to satisfy data-driven market research about what the market is looking for. It's extremely frustrating and it's a legitimate frustration.

[(Anonymous)]

"Dividing all of literature up into two or three big buckets" is the exact opposite of what I'm doing? The range of books reviewed in newspapers and literary magazines is enormous, and includes so-called "genre" fiction, as well as a huge number of literary styles. Not sure what you mean by "mainstream" fiction-- is that "anything that isn't SFF"? Because SFF is pretty mainstream now. The only category I'm excluding from contention, at least in my personal reading, is the (yes, increasingly large but VERY easily ignorable) genre of YA-influenced books written to be popular on twitter.

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IME the stylistic range of SFF and mystery reviewed in literary newspapers and magazines is relatively narrow, as narrow in its own way as the YA-inflected fiction popular on social media. I also think that both of them are similar in the sense that when they review genre fiction they tend to review it essentially from their own point of view, that is to say, a mainstream outlet will review genre fiction as though it were mainstream and a YA person on social media will review genre fiction as though it were YA.

I have tried using newspapers and literary journals to try to find good genre recs and my experience has never been that it really worked well.