![]() ![]() Luckily there are hundreds of years and countless intriguing novels written before all this, more than I could ever hope to read in my lifetime. ![]() Struggle and oppression have always been plot drivers, but it seems like a vast majority of works published in the last decade are just slight variations on "oppressed person struggles to exist within the System, then finds a way to overcome The End." The Hero's Journey highly compressed, lossily. Maybe it's the fault of the editors or typesetters, if those still exist. There's not much exploration of the form, it's all so grammatically correct. Seems like writers have learned to write and learned what's right, they've been writing and not reading. Certainly a few standouts here and there.įor me the primary issue has been the words, the lexicon, the cadence it's flat. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been. ![]() ![]() It has felt this way to me for years now, really. ![]()
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