Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002)

Re:Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-... by Modified3019 on Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:51PM (#39255760)

I strongly feel this is off base, frankly I’m a bit surprised at seeing your objection. To be clear, I don’t intend this to have a tone of hostility, just confusion.

His post absolutely added value to this thread. If it was just the quote, then yeah I could kinda see it as pithy… but not really enough to make a fuss about.

What I actually see though is a perfect summary of the link following it, which I’ve not come across before and does a fantastic job of putting into words the almost instinctual disrespect/disdain I feel for certain types of writing. In fact I find it coincidently mirroring the recent thread on what the goals of open source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39253117) regarding the question “are you actually accomplishing what you wanted to with your actions”. The answer here of course depends on if the authors want to convey ideas/emotion, or just want to display status with the literary equivalent of “bling”.

In short, I’m glad they dropped that link, and hope they are not discouraged from doing so in the future.

Edited to better convey my intended objections

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Re:Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-... by genman on Sunday February 04, 2024 @09:36PM (#39256665)

I'm not sure what the author really wants to tell me. Is it a reflection of himself, or a review of a book, a advert of an author, I lost interest as he lost interest while reading J R. Perhaps everything worth telling had been told already for that moment.

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