Tag: commercial fiction

  • Video Book Review of Legion by Brandon Sanderson (Video Blog ep 038)

    Video Book Review of Legion by Brandon Sanderson (Video Blog ep 038)

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    Legion by Brandon Sanderson is a quick, fun, enjoyable read. The problem for me may be that it’s ONLY a quick, fun, enjoyable read. But that’s my personal crap, I understand. I generally like a different kind of book, one that forces me to think a bit more. But again, that my personal, elitist crap. Why shouldn’t I be able to simply enjoy a book rather than deconstruct it? It makes no sense. In fact, I should read more stories like Legion by Brandon Sanderson. I’m not being snide here; I really should.

  • Literary Fiction vs. Genre Fiction: A War of Terminology (Video Blog ep 037)

    Literary Fiction vs. Genre Fiction: A War of Terminology (Video Blog ep 037)

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    Literary vs. Genre. It’s a debate had mostly by linguistic and book nerds, one that honestly has no effect on anything important, so why even have it? Shut up! That’s why!

  • Why You Will Never Stop Reading Books by that Shitty Author You Secretly Love

    Extree, extree, this just in, Caleb tells you why you may have shitty taste in books. New article at Slothrop.com just went live, titled “Why You Will Never Stop Reading Books by that Shitty Author You Secretly Love.” A taste:

    My goal here, it would seem, is to strip away the magic and aesthetic pleasure from the reading experience until all that remains is a conscious system of if/thens made to cultivate so much data and worry that you’d be better to build an apocalypse bunker, devoid of all text, than to crease the spine of a highly anticipated blockbuster from James Patterson (though, you’d be wise to avoid the latter no matter my intentions with this blog post). Yes, it seems that way. But no. Rather, it is important to understand the very basics of the free will argument if we are to at all suppose books as a unique medium.

    Head over to Slothrop to read the post. Leave a comment. Let Phil know how much you love the article. Maybe he will have me back.