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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 18, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Yeah, that was my point. Normal male fiction readers really don't care that much, because the backlog of good fiction is absolutely massive anyway.

Really sucks for young authors today, of course.

...and for people who read way too much and who have worked through most of the backlog.

Nope not me.

Me neither, unironically. Got a little bored of swords and space ships and started with Russian literary fiction. Just Dostoevsky, Tolstoi and Chekhov seem to be a life-long project...

Yeah I read those guys in High School and College because it seemed like The Thing To Do and so on but these days I just switched to lowbrow book-crack since I have to read so much non-fiction for work.

Ideally later in my career I'll switch back.

Last week, a lady at work asked me to read The Brothers Karamazov with her. Perhaps we could get some Motte book club action going.