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Gibberish. But yeah market books all look/sound the same, hasnt it been this way since the 90s?
by spacecadet 3y ago
Gibberish. But yeah market books all look/sound the same, hasnt it been this way since the 90s?
- skywhopper 3y agoThe 1890s maybe or 1790s. All the trash from back then has been forgotten but there was just as much of it as there is today. This is not a new phenomenon.
- klodolph 3y agoI think there's probably a lot more trash today. There's a lot more of everything. The number of books published each year in the US has grown by something like 300x over the past one hundred years, if you only count traditional publishing (and not print-on-demand).
- constantly 3y agoThere’s lots more today. You can go to Amazon and search for any very specific niche subject and find AI generated books that claim to address that subject. The ability to churn out useless garbage with few resources is at an all time high and will continue to increase.
- bregma 3y agoThe 1590s? Do you think Shakespeare was the only one writing plays and sonnets for Tudor mass consumption? Heck, do you think Homer was the only poet to ever don a toga way back in the day?
- Apocryphon 3y agoI’ve always wondered about that. Yeah, you can objectively say Shakespeare was a master of the written word based on how many new words and phrases he coined and all that, but who are we to otherwise judge the qualitative merits of Elizabethan writing? How does a modern gauge whether Christopher Marlowe or any other contemporary authors are any better or worse than the Bard himself? What if there were other plays that were superior but simply got lost to history?
- inimino 3y agoAs an ancient Greek, Homer would certainly never have worn formal clothing of a civilization that did not yet even exist...