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[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol -4 points 9 months ago

I take it you're not a José Saramago fan?

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 9 points 9 months ago

Hard to be a fan of someone you’ve never heard of. Did he invent the run on sentence?

[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol -3 points 9 months ago

No, but he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and his writing style emphasizes famously long sentences, some of them stretching for pages.

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 8 points 9 months ago

So he popularized the run on sentence, got it.

[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol -5 points 9 months ago

Eh, you'll probably like him once you read him. They teach his books a lot in high school English, so you'll maybe get some exposure in...I'm gonna guess 5 years or so.

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

Passive aggressiveness, nice!

I won’t be reading his works, mostly because I prefer authors that use proper English grammar.

Buck up kiddo, you’ll get ‘em next time!

[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol -3 points 9 months ago

Passive aggressiveness, nice!

That's not passive aggressiveness; it's condescension. Passive aggressiveness would be like hiding a spouse's favorite condiments after an argument or intentionally being late to a meeting with someone you don't like. It's being indirectly mean or hurtful. I'm very direct, by comparison.

I won’t be reading his works, mostly because I prefer authors that use proper English grammar.

A truly fascinating hill to die on. I'm gonna bet you're a BIG Brandon Sanderson and J. K. Rowling fan. Maybe a little Stephen King if you want to be adventurous.

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago

I mean, it’s really not. It’s just a preference. I’m not at all familiar with Brandon Sanderson. I’ve never read J. K. Rowling but am familiar due to pop culture. I read some Stephen King years ago. Don’t remember what all besides The Stand and The Dark Tower.

Given your concern over my reading habits, you must be a librarian?

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