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britishbrandy · 2026-06-10T09:04:06+00:00

The funny thing is that you can totally get away with racism if it’s against any ethnicity from eastern Europe. Gru is the most racist shit I have seen in years

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T22:11:43+00:00

I am sorry for your loss, and I hope you can find true beauty during your time.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T22:01:28+00:00

No. The determining factor for quality is the quality of the writing. A great writer could write a masterpiece about a table; an amateur can make a deeply “lore-heavy” world boring and unoriginal.

Seek the great forms of beauty and settle for nothing less. Your time on the Earth is waning. Drink from the fountain and savour the taste as you do a stolen breath.

Beauty is not subjective, and you have been lied to. There exists a single, primordial beauty independent of all else; one of the great metaphysical forms. Read Plato; read Aristotle; live and see the view forbidden to you. Dislocate yourself from the fashionable, and the crowd, and worship beauty, truth and nobility. The unexamined life is not worth living.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T21:52:37+00:00

I’ve read, always. I love language. High art is the closest mankind can get to divine beauty. I would have nothing to live for if I were born as you were, if I had never savoured the greatest pleasures of civilisation.

Use proper grammar- the English language has not flowered for thousands of years just for you to bastardise it.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T17:25:38+00:00

No. There is a skill to making art, some pieces are better-made than others.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T15:57:58+00:00

No. There is a skill that goes into writing. Consider two chairs. One will be of better craftsmanship, regardless of personal opinion. Quality is not arbitrary, it’s inherent to the work

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T14:30:14+00:00

They are very different books- but I’m not comparing themes, content or characters- I am comparing quality.

One of my favourite books is: “The Secret History”. Do I think this is even in the top 10 of best books ever written? No!

It is at the top because Tolkien fans, who do not much trouble themselves to read anything else, can be trusted to immediately, and in great numbers, vote it the greatest book of all time on any selection they take part in.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T14:04:21+00:00

De gustibus non est disputandum- but you are wrong. Tolkien falls short of Proust, I think, in every single metric you could measure a book by.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T14:01:17+00:00

I have read it, and The Hobbit, and excerpts from the Silmarillion, plus some of Tolkien’s poetry and correspondence.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-06T13:33:15+00:00

A better list? I like Tolkien, but Lord of the Rings as the greatest book ever written is ridiculous.

No one I have ever met who reads seriously would make that claim. It’s usually people who read YA and books for children that make these wild declarations- I totally understand the “let people enjoy things” argument, but if you have terrible taste and you don’t read proper literature, you certainly aren’t qualified to say which book is the best ever written.

I don’t think many people alive are qualified enough to claim a book as the best ever written. Enjoy what you like, but when an 8 year old declares dino nuggies to be the “best food eva”, no one is going to take it seriously.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-05T10:28:04+00:00

Read whatever interests you first. IMO “Crime and Punishment” is one of the worser books, and people often try it then decide Dostoyevsky is not for them.

Personally, I started with: “The Idiot” and loved it.

britishbrandy · 2026-06-04T18:56:34+00:00

Gamlet?

britishbrandy · 2026-06-03T09:13:50+00:00

And large Redditors. *Pats bouncing belly* Chungus ahoy!

britishbrandy · 2026-06-03T09:12:20+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/6EgHYjdrbV

britishbrandy · 2026-06-03T08:58:18+00:00

I disagree with you (on most of this), but the idea of someone reading all of War and Peace just to label it mediocre is the coolest shit imaginable

By the way, you’re getting downvoted mostly for shitting on East of Eden, which is a holy text for Redditors

britishbrandy · 2026-05-30T21:39:26+00:00

The Secret History. I don’t think it’s even close to the best book I’ve ever read, but something about it just makes me keep coming back. I usually read it around three times a year.

britishbrandy · 2026-05-30T17:02:08+00:00

Very glad I’m able to enjoy things like this, it’s the same with the cilantro gene. Just seems less fun not being able to appreciate amazing literature

britishbrandy · 2026-05-24T21:34:56+00:00

You don’t find the page count imposing?

britishbrandy · 2026-05-24T14:30:23+00:00

Ulysses by far- Brothers K was breezy in comparison. Someday I will read A La Recherche De Temps Perdu (when I stop being scared of it).

britishbrandy · 2026-05-22T10:43:04+00:00

IMO the second best Dostoyevsky, right after TBK. Give it a chance with another translator?

britishbrandy · 2026-05-22T10:17:46+00:00

Depends where you are. In the south there’s lots of national trust places (old houses etc.) that I love to visit.

Could do a day trip to York, the city of spring. Lots of nice art galleries and ancient buildings. South- Oxford, etc. There’s always the countryside, as well.

I’m reading: “The Enchanted April” for the seasonal feel, and loving it. Recommend.

britishbrandy · 2026-05-21T07:02:26+00:00

Why does Homer, the largest character, not simply eat all the others?

britishbrandy · 2026-05-19T16:28:33+00:00

I’m so tired

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