I find the golden age of science fiction to be extremely bland and boring to read
>>25193389MFA 'Literary' Fiction
>>25193389post war poetry
>>25193389Post WW2 literature of all stripes. Should have filtered out contemporary stuff for more interesting answers
Existentialist literature. Its just mental illness masquerading as depth.
Newspaper published (Victorian) realism. Dickens is so fucking unbelievably boring and long-winded.
>>2519338919th century realism
>>25193392this
genre fiction is like an excellent greasy cheeseburger from a local diner, mfa litfic is like ordering a steak from an upscale place and getting an uncooked hamburger patty with a note from the chef that reads "i went to college, trust me broseph," and real fiction written by someone who went to college is a serious treat that leaves you satisfied for days. anytime the writer thinks the idea/structure behind the prose matters more than making the prose sound good im usually not a happy camper. im a voracious reader btw i do actually eat the books
>>25193856>who went to collegeMeh. Some of the best fiction ever made was composed by an illiterate singer, a son of a glovemaker, a whaler etc. Also a bunch of dropouts (Mississipi, Munich)
oh yeah i know. theyd be like really good ethnic food places in the analogy. i just didnt think of them off the top of my head. Hubert Selby Jr is a fav of mine and he was never formally educated
>>25193389>What’s your LEAST favorite era or style of writing?Current year
That strange fanfic style. With lots of short sentences. Everything tries to be a monument. A stone monument. Not a phrase. You would think David Lynch directed every sentence. Sometimes it'll synopsise long series of events and then the same amount of words describing putting on shoes. I hate it.
>>25193971its derivative of the cadence you find in like grand declarative twitter posts about Marx or some other bullshit. millennials thinking theyre writing Shakespeare by slightly bending the rules of grammar. "Fight Club isn't just a movie. It's a statement. A grand statement, in fact, about where we were in the 90s, and where we're headed now. Not many people understand this movie. But I do."-type shit. a lot of fanfic writers (ive been around several) dont read stuff that has a drastically different style and are overly reverent about canon so they tend not to experiment, if youre curious why it often sounds this way
>>25193389PoMo novels. Slogs of the highest order
>>25194367I don't see how they're a slog. Whacky randumb xD sure, but how can you can call the giant adenoid or the sentient light bulb a slog?
>>25194374They devote too many pages to making points at the expense of plot and characterization
>>25194413I don't know what postmodernists you're reading, but they hardly ever bother making a point, certainly not to the same extent as Tolstoy (AK part 8, that infamous W&P 2nd epilogue) or Ayn Rand (100 page monologue).
>>25194431I've noticed a strange divide between their defenders where they will either call you a low IQ plotfag who didn't get the points if you criticize the lack of storytelling, or they'll take the opposite approach and deny that the novels do sacrifice storytelling for commentary. You seem to be in the second group.
>>25193389american ruralism19th/20th century equivalent to diaspora literature. shallow and performative
1890s newage / theosophy crap.
>>25193389I don't know if it's my absolute least favorite, but with some exceptions Romanticism ranks pretty low for me. I have very little patience for the Byronian anti-hero archetype; the brooding, self-dramatizing nihilist who spends half the time being insufferable and the other half "discovering meaning" among supposedly more "authentic" people somewhere far away, usually in the Far East or the countryside. Chateaubriand, Lermontov, Turgenev, Tolstoy's Cossacks, etc. Painfully contrived.
Mid 20th century French """"""""philosophers""""""""
>>25193971>>25194340Guarantee you both it's because this image got popular in the 2010s and everyone in those circles decided to follow it to the letter, instead of curating these tips as needed for their own work
21st century literature.
>>25197525oh god i remember this. would make sense
