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One thing I got from reading Sally Rooney is I can relate to the many of the character's situations, thoughts/opinions and emotions even though I am almost fort
by stevenwoo 1y ago
One thing I got from reading Sally Rooney is I can relate to the many of the character's situations, thoughts/opinions and emotions even though I am almost forty years older than they are and her books are easy to read for lack of a better description (though this latter features in much contemporary writing). Is that her secret sauce, I dunno.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago>her books are easy to read for lack of a better description (though this latter features in much contemporary writing). Maybe linguistic evolution is playing a role? Contemporary writing is easiest to read because it's written in contemporary English? I also think The Elements of Style had a real and positive influence, in terms of e.g. sentences getting shorter: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xYn3CKir4bTMzY5eb/why-have-sentence-lengths-decreased https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xYn3CKir4bTMzY5eb/why-have-s...