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Anonymous Wed Jul 24 15:56:51 2013 No.3965759 [Reply] [Original]

>Read a good book that won half a dozen literature awards
>Look up academic papers on it via university databases
>Nothing
>Look up conversations on book forums
>Nothing
>Desperate, look to GoodReads to see what people thought of it
>Most people hated it

Why do books win awards if no one is talking about them and people seem to hate them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:00:50 2013 No.3965763 >>3965759 In 2013 only shitty books win awards. It's a kind of consolation prize -- if you can't get published, don't have pleb appeal and not even interesting to academics, then you can at least get a book award.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:02:50 2013 No.3965767 >>3965763 You realize that doesn't make any sense, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:08:50 2013 No.3965777 That Oscar Wao book comes to mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:08:50 2013 No.3965779 this is a stupid generalization.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:11:50 2013 No.3965791 >>3965779 >Specific example >stupid generalization u wot m8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:18:50 2013 No.3965803 >>3965767 It makes perfect sense, you shithead. In 2013, successful writers don't care about awards. It's a negative feedback loop.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:19:50 2013 No.3965804 >>3965803 No, you shithead. It doesn't make sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:20:50 2013 No.3965806 >>3965777 That book wasnt shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:20:50 2013 No.3965807 >>3965759 Which book, and when was it published? If it came out in the last year or two, there isn't likely to be much academic work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:22:50 2013 No.3965811 >>3965804 Then you're just an idiot. Try Rebbit, they're intellectual midgets like yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:24:50 2013 No.3965814 >>3965811 you're an idiot! no you are!!!! kekekekeke

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:33:50 2013 No.3965823 Because the moment someone say 'this something is good' then all hopes for that thing to be genuinely understood has already gone.

>>	Piers Morgan Wed Jul 24 16:45:50 2013 No.3965843 File: 451 KB, 217x148, 1374687004793.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3965763 >>3965803 This applies to controversial authors you nig nog.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:46:50 2013 No.3965846 >>3965791 using a specific example to make a stupid point like >Why do books win awards if no one is talking about them and people seem to hate them? is what's called a generalization you dumbass

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 17:40:51 2013 No.3965956 >>3965811 >It's kind of consolation prize -- if you can't get published >can't get published

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