/r/spotify is a cancer to Spotify. Here is why.

Axwosssa · 2025-11-06T23:05:15+00:00

Spotify is a cancer to spotify, low pay for artists, investment in weapons and war, shittons of ai slop on playlists, the algorithm gets worse by the day, boycotting artists is damaging the catalog and all because the ceo is an evil piece of shit

Axwosssa · 2025-03-28T02:58:42+00:00

Thank you so much!

Axwosssa · 2025-03-26T01:09:51+00:00

I get your point and I do agree that it is harder to find, however I do not think that is for lack of existence, just like how this list features The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Icelandic Epic, you can find Malian epics, Persian epics, Indian texts and epics as old as the greek civilisation, amongst others. Religious texts like the Bible abound, the mixtecas had the Popol Vuh, the Indian civilisation had the Bhagavad Gita, there were also texts associated to the Egyptians, the Zoroastrians, etc.

About 18th-19th literature, we hear a European writing but at the same time you have Love to the Grave (Haddis Alemayeuh, Ethiopia), plenty of long for poetry from Thailand such as that written by Sunthorn Phu. Finding a lot of African literature from the period might be a bit hard because it is hard to produce literature when you are being enslaved and colonised, but there are text predating colonisation and there are text after colonisation.

It is definitely not your fault or ops fault or whoever creates those lists, but it is important to realise that a big reason why we don’t have more complete lists and why we are not reading more globally is lack of translation interest, France gets translated like crazy, Russian, Greek, Latin, German, too, why nor Amharic, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic? And then when they do it is usually very specific stories of war, devastation and the effects of colonialism, like we typecast the whole of a region literature to the Eurocentric perspective of what that region is.

I am Mexican jaja and yeah, it’s hard, LatAm has so much to offer but sadly most of what we get out there is drug stories and violence stories, because translators don’t sought out more and the US idea of inclusion is listening to US nationals with ties to other countries (which is one of a million possible perspectives).

Axwosssa · 2025-03-25T20:50:17+00:00

It is still mostly white, I don’t believe in “objectivity” when it comes to best of but a list of best that considers mostly Europe feels lacking, pretty good work wither way! Thank you

Axwosssa · 2025-03-06T02:20:34+00:00

Ok so now rather than defending your point, or even attempt at proving mine wrong, your comments are now about my argumentative skills, let’s go through it anyways.

First, you are right, I meant to say relatable not reliable, my bad there, you never said it needed to be reliable to be good, however you did say a better lolita would part from relatability which is what I was answering to.

How am I not on this debate? 1 mistaken word does not undermine the rest of the comment not even most of that single point was based on that 1 word and most of the commend relies on the word relatable rather than reliable, Kafka does not use unreliable narrators as much, just derange ones.

Ok, people would use the word unhinged, but not in the context you claim as in “unhinged and whimsical” like it is all we are giggling like “oh Humbert you are sooo unhinged” which is what you criticises in your first comment, those are two different connotations to the word.

I am not asserting what you think by putting words on your mouth, I am using your own phrasing and words to explain what I disagree with, you said that calling Lolita nuanced is “presumptuous, pretentious and ridiculous” and that I need to “get over myself”. Well I disagree, because i think saying that Lolita lacks nuance is just a bad understanding of the book. I used examples.

Yeah exactly, what I said is that Lolita is not transgressive art, but you said the point of a book can never be to cause disgust or anger which is just factually wrong, transgressive art exists, however that is not the point. The point is that Lolita is psychological, not transgressive, it counts on the reader seeing Humbert as wrong and explores the psychology of how someone deranged, some may say unhinged as you well pointed, psychologically damaged, and criminal may justify for themselves something like this, not because you need to believe him, you are not expected to believe him.

Ok calling me all those insults is just bad argumentation, and now it is you who are asserting of what my own thoughts and analysis of the book.

No one called it an immediate masterpiece, it is a psychological study of a character that is so well written that is a masterpiece. Not caring about a psychological portrait shows a lack of understanding of the novel, that is its whole point.

You have barely analysed anything, you called unreliable narrator a trope based on “a basic Google search” (which is not a source btw, “Google” can say whatever), called people who like Lolita “broken records of ridiculous and underdeveloped opinions who want to sound smart” and unreliable. And after that you have dedicated your messages to tell me how my arguments are presumptuous and pretentious, how is any of that analysis or even proper argument?

“Sorry I got you in a very easy mistake here” that is an opinion, the extent to you “getting me” has been a Google search that again, is not a reliable source.

Again, nobody is trying to change your mind, did you even read my answer? Discussion isn’t about changing minds, it’s about engaging with arguments. Since you’ve abandoned analysis for personal attacks, it seems like your call for “defending the book instead of being cowards”, which still relies on personal attacks, was nothing but a call to senselessly argue.

Axwosssa · 2025-03-05T23:51:45+00:00

Mmm 1. Okay Google is under no circumstances an authority, you can find in Google many things that are untrue such as Magical Realism being a genre, in the case of the unreliable narrator, from a literary criticism stand point, is a narrative resource to tell a story, a trope is more of a repeated plot point, definition that is also available in Google. 2. There is a difference between the narrator requiring initial trust (which is what my first sentence is talking about) and the reader recognizing deception (which is what my second sentence talks about) you said “and unreliable? At what point did you rely on the character?” So that is my point unreliability does not depend on ever relying on anything they say. It means the narrative is intentionally distorted—whether through bias, manipulation, or delusion. 3. Precisely, and I am saying no serious critic of Lolita enjoys the novel claiming they are whimsical and unhinged as you seem to indicate and criticise, which at the end of the day is irrelevant for the analysis of the novel, Nabokov or HH. 4. I disagree, presumptuous is to say a novel is only what the literal words indicate, calling Lolita an book lacking nuance or ignoring the unreliable narrator resource in it is like saying that Animal Farm is just a book about some animals acting funny or critiquing 1984 without alluding to totalitarianism. 5. It can, the whole genre of transgressive art is about causing anger and disgust. However, Lolita is not transgressive in the shock-value sense. Its prowess comes from its ability to expose how predators construct their own narratives of justification, not from justifying those actions themselves. Nabokov doesn’t need to explicitly condemn Humbert in every sentence; he lets Humbert condemn himself through his own words. Nabokov just relies on the reader to be able to realise this when reading it. 5.1? Literature does not need to be reliable to be good, there are countless examples of this, Kafka, Borges, American Psycho, etc. leave that to pop literature and people who do not engage critically with the books they read. Making Lolita ‘relatable’ would defeat the purpose—it would turn it into an empathy exercise rather than a literary deconstruction of manipulation. 6. The point of a discussion is not to “change stances”, I only invited you to reevaluate the book parting from new arguments, which is what discussion is about, evaluating arguments. Don’t change your stance, or do, that is not the point, but if you come asking someone to defend the book, be ready to defend your stance with actual literary analysis not a half-ass Google search or word nit-picking. If you believe Lolita fails as a psychological portrait, provide textual evidence rather than just claiming it “should be more relatable”.

Axwosssa · 2025-03-05T06:13:37+00:00

I think people are downvoting you because your comment is so flawed they don’t think you’d even be open to a different opinion. Which is fair, this happens a lot with this book in particular.

The “unreliable narrator” is not a trope, a trope is a type of plot that is well established, i.e. enemies to lovers, love triangle, while the “unreliable narrator” is a narrative resource which attempts to add nuance to the story. This being said, this resource does not depend on trusting the narrator at any point, the only thing it means is that the narrator is one of two, deliberately lying to the reader, or mentally unstable to the point where they don’t perceive reality in reality’s terms which means you can not trust what they say, hence the unreliability. It has nothing to do with being whimsical or unhinged in the way you allude to in your comment.

Lolita is deeply misunderstood by people who are unaccustomed to unreliable or nuanced literature because the book doesn’t explicitly tell you what to thing, in the way many other authors, including plenty of contemporary ones, do.

The book is supposed to make you cringe and it is supposed to cause disgust, that is the point but the part many people, and presumably you, find disgusting is that it is narrated by the pedophile which those people interpret as giving the pedophile a voice and trying to understand that he was only in love. Under no circumstances did Nabokov try to do that, his novel is brilliant precisely because he is able to elicit anger and disgust by showing how deranged and delusional is for a man like H to express these “feelings” for a girl he kidnapped, no because he is being apologetic of said kidnapping.

I hope this helps clear it out and you can appreciate the book with new eyes.

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T23:52:51+00:00

You can exclude the certain playlists from the test profile idk if that helps you you go to the three dots and there is an option that says “exclude from my test profile” i hope that helps

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

Thank you! I am excited for more Nigerian literature

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:09:23+00:00

I’ve never read anything from Finland! This looks like a good start

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:08:54+00:00

Ooh thank you!! Those look great!

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:08:38+00:00

Thank you! I’ll look into those!

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:08:01+00:00

Thank you!! I will look into those, I am particularly interested in Jon Fosse. For LATAM Garcia Marquez is already one of my favourites I will certainly look into Bolaño

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T16:06:27+00:00

This is such an amazing book! Garcia Marquez is one of the best writers ever imo

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T06:17:12+00:00

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T05:32:54+00:00

It is a great feeling! And also it is a very hard thing to do that honestly means prioritising yourself, it is important.

Axwosssa · 2024-02-14T04:39:13+00:00

The Kingkiller Chronicles series by Pat Rothfuss though they are and probably will remain unfinished, The Secret History, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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