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I went in a Barnes & Noble recently and was underwhelmed by the sheer amount of vapid crap masquerading as literature these days. I'm pretty sure if people are
by lisbbb 1y ago
I went in a Barnes & Noble recently and was underwhelmed by the sheer amount of vapid crap masquerading as literature these days. I'm pretty sure if people are avoiding most of that crap that it's a good thing not a bad thing.
- drak0n1c 1y agoPublishers, and their choices of what authors and stories to promote and which to ignore are just as to blame as readers for narrowing and filtering the book reading public.
- Gigachad 1y agoAnything post 2023 has a high chance of being complete generated slop now too.
- gnerd00 1y agoback in the day, bookstores specialized.. Barnes & Noble were a warehouse-sized super-commercial shop from the start; pushing vapid crap was certainly in that mix. Unfortunately, Amazon Books out-inventoried even the behemoth Barnes & Noble.. think Walmart for books. It was intentional.