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While this is tragic news, this really doesn't feel at all correlated to HackerNews.
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I prefer George R.R. Martin “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal). It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
In literally terms, certain authors are simply better than others. But this does not invalidate the idea that some people might find more popular authors to have a bigger impact to them.
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Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal). It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
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Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal). It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
Humans loves a narrative...
Great storytellers often succeed financially when writers of interpretive fiction--literature--barely scrape by...
Each type of author has a place...some readers want entertainment...other readers prefer entertainment coupled with edification...
I think the best novels provide both...Harper Lee did just that...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/books/harper-lee-and-truma...
And that Dill was partially based on her childhod friendship with Capote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#Early_life
This seems to be well established now in pop culture and art, but I was completely unaware when I first heard.
The fact the world has such inspired people, despite their stressful surroundings was a blessing to us all in the form of great art.
Goodbye, Harper.
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Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal). It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
Are there any, may lesser known, fantasy that is more literary?
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Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal). It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
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Care to provide an abstract of that article?
warning spoilers for the book. the tl;dr is: The lawyer isn't really that good a role model. He gets a black man off of a rape charge mostly by attacking the alleged victim's character. He can't bring himself to hate a white man that wants to lynch that same black man, or indeed even Hitler. In the end he conspires with the sheriff to obstruct justice when a nice middle class white man kills a poor white man. In this…
No, he tries to get a black man off of a rape charge, but he fails. And, it is worth noting, the black man was (almost certainly) actually innocent, the alleged victim was actually the aggressor, and the black man is ultimately killed by a vigilante.
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Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
I think it's a bummer that all the popular fantasy is not the best writing. (I do quite enjoy GRRM and Abercrombie.) Are there any, may lesser known, fantasy that is more literary?
See Fantasy Classics at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/318.Fantasy_Classics