There was a good tumblr post about this!! (I can’t find it 😭) but basically they said you need to put it on an x and y axis where x is “how objectively good is this media” and y is “how much I enjoyed it”. With the optional z axis “how much did this affect my sanity”

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or when someone hates a whole book because they don’t like a character that meant to be written like that. Like if you hate a character that means they wrote them well. Like when you hate a character in a movie it means they did a good job

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Me with my “cringey” YA romance books.

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i think the catcher in the rye is a bad book because jd salinger failed to do something interesting with holden caulfield, like he forgot that the point of a story is for characters to experience some sort of development. the plot is also boring bc holden for pretty much the entire book refuses to do anything truly difficult, the events are super repetitive bc he just keeps pushing away the people who seem to care about him, and nothing ever actually gets resolved.

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I think if the prose and grammar is bad it can be construed as objectively bad in a certain aspect.

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So true. I usually end up with the phrase “I didn’t say it was good I said I liked it.” Because I’ll just say it; my taste is questionable at best. I find myself enjoying some books others hated and hating books others loved. There are also books that fall into categories of “this is wonderfully written but also is offensive garbage” (IYKYK), or “this book is a cultural phenomenon and yet it’s also shit”

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I think we can all agree that some books legitimately suck. I have yet to meet one person who actually enjoyed The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

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I try to reinforce the phrase ‘for me’ with people in my life. For example, “Catcher in the Rye was not for me.”

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I think this is just a misunderstanding about semantics. When (most) people say “this book was bad” they’re (usually) referring to a subjective opinion about their enjoyment of the book, not an objective fact about the quality of the book (because such a thing does not exist)

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Catch 22 🥀

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