when you're so not mad you out page count the equivalent of a capitalism car manual, incoherent drivel from the least annoying ancap, and a series literally known for extremely meticulous and plentiful worldbuilding, for the equivalent of a shower argument against people who dislike you on twitter. holy shit. i'd feel bad if she deserved pity :what-the-hell:
JK Rowling has written a very silly book. We shall neither print it nor reply to it.
It's going to be a Memento-esque mystery where detective Kirk Marques wakes up hungover without any recollection of the previous night on someone's sofa. He realises his coat is missing and tries to retrace his steps, working out what happened last night to find it, but finds himself stumbling accidentally into uncovering a grand conspiracy of capital as he does so.
I like that every one of her non-Harry Potter books just gets slammed in the reviews. Also her Harry Potter spinoff books. Also her screenplays.
Basically unless you're looking at her writing through a nostalgic lens it's impossible to think it's good.
I think it's actually her because it's this long - outsourced writers would actually edit down, to write & publish a 1300 page murder mystery (presumably) without even having some Ulyssees-style fun with it requires you to believe that you are the greatest writer on earth and be surrounded by deranged yes-men
The Harry Potter books balooned in size the more she could get leverage over editors due to success. This is just classic JK Rowling writing.
And now she had the opportunity to get on her hobby horse of castigating the "tolerant left" for being so terrible. So she likely loved writing this shite.
Joanne is a miserable shart of a human being and apparently this newest screed is very much her writing a malding terf rant about how oppressed she is as a billionaire
she probably either records voice memos or a types a rough sketches by chapter or something and then a small batallion of editors clean it up,
i mean i would send literal voice notes, have someone transcribe them for me, then i would read the transcript to see if it's a-ok, and then send that to my publisher and their editors to have it cleaned up, then my publisher or whatever would send feedback and the whole process repeats portion by portion until it's done. that's how i would go around this stuff if i was a rich author. but most stuff should be attributable to rowling regardless.
Shit, Capital is only 800 pages? I should really read that some time.
800 pages except Marx writes every single one of his sentences with the density of what would be 5 sentences from another author.
Unpacking his writing is work. You can re-read his paragaphs 5 times and still pull out new understanding from them. It is not a quick read.
Honestly, State and Revolution is incredibly dense itself despite being about 100 pages for similar reasons
conversely, I was surprised by how light it seemed once I realized Lenin was dunking and I just lacked context on the people involved. I stopped looking people up and just started to enjoy the rant on it's own terms. it's more intimidating when you think every word is layered in meaning and you need to decipher it all - mostly though, Lenin isn't Joyce and just lays it out straight, modulo the translation issue (old books that were translated into the language as it was spoken/written 100 years ago force some mental overhead in translating the language to something more familiar -- a lot of theory would be 100% more accessible if it were just re-translated and the language modernized).
Maybe that's the issue; I keep trying to understand the passages themselves with the relevant context, maybe I should just be reading less of the subtext on it and not trying to understand the context completely
there's probably some value to that but like... everyone he mentions is long, long dead. most of them have their most significant historical mention in Lenin's citation. but I'm also coming at this from the perspective that Lenin's methods are more important than his specific results; I want to understand his analytical tools so I can employ them in the present to extant circumstances. whether he was ultimately right or wrong/fair or unfair in his analysis and interpretations of others is much less helpful than working out what he's choosing to focus on and how he combines ideas. YMMV
I want to understand his analytical tools so I can employ them in the present to extant circumstances. whether he was ultimately right or wrong/fair or unfair in his analysis and interpretations of others is much less helpful than working out what he’s choosing to focus on and how he combines idea
That's very helpful, actually. Will try re-reading it with that in mind; I think my issue was hyper-focusing on the minutiae, but thinking over how the text was structured, it makes more sense to approach it as more of a framework than a reference guide to every thought
Be warned, tho. It's 659 pages about coats and linen before Marx and Engels kiss for the first time.
I feel like I've scoured this image for hints. Who tf is Joanne and in what way is she related to this screenshot?
Figured out it. JK Rowling (Joanne), beloved author of the Harry Potter series and the world's least censored transphobe, has once again published some transphobia. This time it's a book, and the book is very very long. The book is longer than the other books pictured in the screenshot.
Yeah, the original post uses too many levels of indirection for me to glean any meaning from it. @WhyEssEff what's this post about? This isn't the right place to subtweet, uh, subbear... subear?
idk I thought it was a clear post and I understood it. Joanne’s new manifesto has been getting dunked on across both literature and queer circles on other social media for like the last two weeks.
Thanks for adding the context in a different comment for anyone who didn’t already know, but this isn’t an obscure reference lol :vivian-shrug:
We need to ban her from all restrooms until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
Apparently there was a minor hullabaloo on the news media about her pen name around 2020 when she released her previous book in the series, but her spokesperson gave some utter bullshit about the pseudonym being a combination of Robert F. Kennedy and a very specific nickname she wanted as a child ("Ella Galbraith"; says she has no idea why she liked the surname even though she never met anyone with the same surname, hmm... :thinking-about-it:) https://www.newsweek.com/why-jk-rowling-robert-galbraith-pseudonym-gay-conversion-robert-galbraith-heath-1532341
The whole facade completely falls apart if you just ask the obvious question of why she or her publishers didn't do a basic google search of the name to make sure there are aren't any future legal or PR complications (especially since she's literally one of the most successful witers of modern history, and the nexus of a multibillion-dollar multimedia entertainment franchise). At that point, you just have to seriously consider the possibility that she and her publishers deliberately chose the pen name as a dogwhistle.
Last month, Rowling returned a human rights award she received from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) organization after the president of the body, Kerry Kennedy, criticized her views on transgender issues.
Wow. When even your liberal heroes consider your views to be beyond the pale.
Just admit you like the guy because he fucking tortured gay and trans people you asshole
I hate when people try to feign ignorance on a subject even when it is very apparent that they are not and they just hold abhorrent views, the disgusting nature of which they realize.
OWN YOUR SHAME FUCKSTICK
Writing a novel longer than infinite jest should be considered a crime against humanity. Who wants to read 1200 pages of this transphobic garbage. Even if you're committed, who's got the time for that much mediocre writing. I'd rather suffer through atlas shrugged again
New rule: The more pages your book has, the more wrong it is.
Combat Liberalism is like two paragraphs so it's the most correct :chairman-moa:
after you breach 1000 pages it's just exponential decay, very few works reach that level and maintain quality throughout. jkr think she jrr 💀
edit: WAIT THIS IS A SINGLE ENTRY IN A SERIES OF BOOKS. HOW. LOTR HAD 3 BOOKS. THIS MF OUTPAGED LOTR WITH 1 BOOK :joker-troll:
Ackshually LOTR is one book in 3 parts. The publishers didn't want to make it one physical book because too many pages.
if the entirety of lotr was crammed into one book you'd break the spine opening it
hell, you could probably break someone else's spine just swinging it at them
Eh, I have history and scholarly books on my shelf that are about the same wordcount as the complete LOTR.
Spending a decade travelling by foot to reach the peak of The Mount, to bear witness to the hallowed pages of The Book of Life...
It is still less than half as long as one JKR novella.
WAIT THIS IS A SINGLE ENTRY IN A SERIES OF BOOKS. HOW.
She also had to write other detective books about totally not transphobic topics like evil crossdresser serial killers.
There's an evil Jeremy Corbyn expy in one of them who is funding anti semitic terrorist attacks and running a sex cult, too.
Good News! That one's shorter than every other book on there.
Except the Illiad. :shrek-troll:
This rule only works if you limit it to the books in the screenshot, or if you're a very sectarian Maoist.
i might go on libgen and download a copy just out of morbid curiosity
