August 2011
29 posts
“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
—Brent Weeks (via imaginingatower)
...on so many men who would have loved you more.: Things realized at the beach today: →
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OH ROCHESTERRRRRRR. NO, NOT THAT HAT, THE OTHER ONE.
- I should start a video blog called “Five Minute Classics.” For those of you who had the divine pleasure of seeing “Five Minute Hamlet,” you’ll know why this is a good idea.
- There should not, under any circumstances, ever, ever, in a million years, be a ‘Jane Eyre’ pornographic video. I hate…
This is what I want
DYINGDYINGDYING. DEAD.
Yet another remake of Jane Eyre….
With the role of Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester taken by….
The Alan Rickman.
Please and thank you.
HEY LOOK ASHLEY THIS IS FOR YOU.
Play
