I skip them. They are cherry-picked and pointless. I don’t care what some person picked by the publisher thinks about the book.

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There’s a real disdain for non-fiction here, which I find really weird. There’s an anti-intellectual vibe and all fiction seems to get lumped into ‘boring intellectual textbooks’.

There are books out there like Lost City of Z and The Corner, which are incredible heartbreaking stories. They hit so much harder than fiction could ever dream about because their content is real. They make fiction look like a pale imitation of reality.

I can’t relate to characters with victim mindsets. They seem contrived. I can only assume that they secretly enjoy being a victim. It’s some kind of taboo kink. That might be why you enjoy reading about other victims.

Umm, it’s not a literal thing. Just like anyone with an education doesn’t believe in God, spirits, or the paranormal; no one actually believes that the muses are literal creatures.

Very true. A lot of anti-AI people are getting left behind. The courts won’t save them.

This lawsuit will result in the same outcome as the previous ones.

It really seems like a lot of people have no idea how LLMs work.

No, it does not. If you don’t like smut and muscles, then Maas isn’t the go.

Is there a reason that the descriptions refer to the race of characters so often (unless they are white)? It’s really grating that the first word used to describe someone is the colour of their skin unless they are white skinned. It’s like there’s a diversity checklist that needs to be ticked off for a book to make this list.

Rather than focusing on the quality of the book, the list seems to be about checking off as many diversity points as possible.

Is there a reason that the descriptions refer to the race of characters so often (unless they are white)? It’s really grating that the first word used to describe someone is the colour of their skin unless they are white skinned. It’s like there’s a diversity checklist that needs to be ticked off for a book to make this list.

Rather than focusing on the quality of the book, the list seems to be about checking off as many diversity points as possible.

Your problem was treating what Chomsky writes as non-fiction.

I can’t believe there are people out there who are this soft.

It’s more fetish than realistic. It doesn’t need to be in a school library.

The writing quality and complexity is similar to YA, but it’ll include a lot of pornographic passages.

A library and downloading are copy are essentially the same. The author gets paid initially and then the book is shared by lots of people. Just think of the internet as a larger library with no late fees, every book always available, and easily accessible.

I thought Recursion was really good. Dark Matter was okay, but the paradoxical story got in the way, and the characters weren’t great.