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"Best Novel of Our Generation" Best out of how many novels that you've read over what period of time? And based on what criteria? Isn't the proper headline he
by Dotnaught 4y ago
"Best Novel of Our Generation"
Best out of how many novels that you've read over what period of time? And based on what criteria?
Isn't the proper headline here something more like, "I enjoyed this book"?
- compiler-guy 4y agoThe title may, just may, not be intended to be taken literally.
- fknorangesite 4y agoRight? Not everything is a dry research paper. I will never understand the penchant for so many HN users to be such incredible, over-the-top pedantic sticks-in-the-mud when it comes to titles.
- soneca 4y agoI took offense to your comment. I found the title a complete clickbait. I couldn’t find any humor in it that would make me think otherwise. The content of the text is completely unrelated to any part of the title. And I don’t think I am pedantic.
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- mcphage 4y ago
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoHyperbole begets more hyperbole to combat the earlier hyperbole. Where does it end?
- compiler-guy 4y agoIt never ends, which is why the world is filled with hyperbole beyond all possibility of recovering and no one can communicate at all.
- soneca 4y agoHow should I take it? I failed to think about any interpretation other than being clickbait (by looking contrarian and exaggerated, withou the text corroborating this take). What is your interpretation of the title?
- compiler-guy 4y agoWhen someone tells me I’m the best cook ever, I interpret that as hyperbole for fun. Similarly with this headline.
- soneca 4y agoMeh
- ineedasername 4y agonot be intended to be taken literally In this case, that still makes it indistinguishable from clickbait.
- compiler-guy 4y agoHe posted it on his own blog. That it feels like click bait is the responsibility of the person who submitted it to hacker news.
- myko 4y agoI took the title to be hyperbole, exuberance at finding something the author liked so much, not truly the best novel of our generation.
- Natsu 4y agoI have no idea what the hell I'm reading, but it's full of stuff like this: > And if you want to engage in some open-field swordplay and smack some defenders to the ground, you might just load the whole damn front -- b1 through b11. Catching one of those is like being hit with a big sack of nickels.