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The difference between good and bad literature is entirely subjective.

>> No.764337

this is true

>> No.764343
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spoken like a true Twilight fan, OP

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>> No.764351

>>764343
Literary quality is intangible.

>> No.764352

It's more of a bell curve than the simple binary choice you've presented in your failed trolling attempt.

With the vast majority of literature, any worth is subjective to the individual reader. However, at the extremes of the curve, either good or bad, nearly all readers agree that the work in question is god tier or shit tier.

Using the bell curve, we can thus place works in a better perspective. For example, "Lolita" at the extreme good end, "The Eye of Argon" at the extreme shit end, and works like "Twilight", "Blood Meridian", and others scattered somewhere in between depending on the reader in question.

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>>764352 For example, "Lolita" at the extreme good end,

No.

Even if that were the case, consensus does not make literary quality any more subjective.

>> No.764375

>>764352
So it's all based on opinion?

>> No.764394

But popular opinion is objective!

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>this thread

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>>764394

0/10

>> No.764459

There are objective factors in determining the quality of a text, such as use of cliche, how characters and plot are developed, whether there is purple prose, etc. Beyond those markers quality is subjective.

>> No.764470

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why?

>> No.764949

If someone could give the universal metric for witch to objectively judge text, I'd be pleased as punch. To think I assumed people just pulled it out of their ass all the time!

>> No.764953

>>764949
*which

>> No.764977

>>764459
It is still subjective as there is no way of measuring literary quality, it is still based entirely on opinion

>> No.764990

>>764977

So if there was a book that was just the words 'lol butts' reprinted 100,000 times, it would not be objectively worse than Lolita?