On Book Reviews of the "Classics"

Yeah, sure, the one star reviews of any classic can be great, but I think this, which is essentially a form of Trump, in that it's kinda tribal maybe even classist rather than based on anything "deep." See defenders of DFW for more. Also WM defending DWM isn't new, so that they only do it using mockery seems telling. I know I wrote about classics, and now I think a little differently: how in many ways what is written has to both strike a chord as well as be backed by some power (or rising power or in the halls of power) otherwise it will rarely gain traction. It's the same reason the Nobel prize of lit has gone as many times to a writer from Sweden than from all of Asia. Do you really believe ~4.5 billion people have contributed as much as 10 million? lol.

 

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