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jrs99 on Dec 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern wor...

the noise to signal ratio is high in contemporary fiction even.

orionblastar on Dec 16, 2013 [–]

Well they try to make up for it by killing off popular characters and having all kinds of 'mean' and 'evil' stuff happen to them.

Game of Thrones

Doctor Who

The Hunger Games

Harry Potter

etc.

lmm on Dec 16, 2013 | [–]

I gave up on Freedom after 50 pages upon encountering the cheapest, most exploitative rape-as-dramatic-backstory I've ever read.

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