This kind of snobbery is tiresome, and you see a lot of it from MFA types.
The truth is that there is very, very little “literary fiction” that is superior to Stephen King.
Like, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy are better than Stephen King, but there hasn’t been a writer on that level since David Foster Wallace.
Every year there are a dozen novels that are supposed to be important about middle-aged women having sexual awakenings or gay guys smoking cigarettes in Dublin or the experience of race in our cultural moment, and they’re all just noise that will be instantly forgotten. “IT” was a banger.
The online trend of young men reading classic works of literature and posting about it continues.
@ChrisKindaReads was the first I saw do it, but it is spreading.
Don’t blackpill on the next generation.
“Even in the so-called dark things, there's a beauty. It can be foreboding, but there is also something else in there that's bigger. It's truthful.” RIP David Lynch, my 🐐
Here you go: the #Superman trailer. Krypto, take us home.
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Fun fact.
If you blended all 8 billion people on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human = 985 kg/m3, average human body mass = 62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's very little horror fiction writers can come up with that is actually more gruesome than what some people in real life have come up with. This ff'ing world, man...