/lit/ - Literature

He is objectively right, not in his comparison of literature to visual media, but in his comparison of literature as a zeitgeist.

An author who cannot deliver his objective, whatever that may be: plot, tone, setting, dialogue, narrative, characterization, description, whatever... efficiently is a writer with poor prose. If it takes you 900 words to set up one "scene" you're just not doing it right. And since language and communication is built on the idea of transferring ideas, its not subjective, but objective that taking too long to get a point across is poor. Some people subjectively like that more, and that's fine, those audiences have those pieces to enjoy. But, and this bears repeating, that is an artistic abuse of the art form, and should not, and is not in modern times, the standard.

I could never decide if I was a buff geek or a well-read meathead. Now I can simply say I am a /fitlit/izen. This warms my cold heart.