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>And out of those people, most of them only read classics and won't touch a contemporary novel with a tent pole.
Honestly, unless a recent novel has incredibly high acclaim (Bolano, Krasznahorkai, Vargas), I'm not gonna bother with it when there's thousands of classics I still haven't read. Why would I waste my time reading a modern novel that has a good chance of being slop when I can take the relatively safe choice of reading a novel that has already proven at least some value by surviving the passage of time? Sure, you occasionally get baited into reading some pulpy stuff that somehow gained the status of "classic", but overall, it's a much safer bet.

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We're a dying breed. If you exclude women reading femgooner slop and YA novels very, very few people read.

We're a dying breed.
If you exclude women reading femgooner slop and YA novels very, very few people read.