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		<title>By: Faze</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2015/07/great-books-and-genre-books/comment-page-1/#comment-2349892</link>
		<dc:creator>Faze</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love SF but also realize it&#039;s not great literature. Up until now, I couldn&#039;t have explained why. This guy does a very good job of it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love SF but also realize it&#8217;s not great literature. Up until now, I couldn&#8217;t have explained why. This guy does a very good job of it.</p>
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		<title>By: Scipio Americanus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scipio Americanus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ditto on Tolkien and &lt;cite&gt;Dune&lt;/cite&gt;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ditto on Tolkien and <cite>Dune</cite>.</p>
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		<title>By: Buckethead</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckethead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only SF/Fantasy books that I personally am able to re-read infinitely (or at least indefinitely) are &lt;cite&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/cite&gt; and &lt;cite&gt;Dune&lt;/cite&gt;. Some others are close &#8212; Bradbury, Cordwainer Smith, and perhaps (too early to tell) Vinge, Stephenson, some others.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only SF/Fantasy books that I personally am able to re-read infinitely (or at least indefinitely) are <cite>Lord of the Rings</cite> and <cite>Dune</cite>. Some others are close &mdash; Bradbury, Cordwainer Smith, and perhaps (too early to tell) Vinge, Stephenson, some others.</p>
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		<title>By: Graham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m not immediately sure that any literature written in the postwar era would meet Adler&#039;s criteria. To be very generous, perhaps some of the postwar literature on the war, e.g. Vonnegut. But that&#039;s pushing it. It doesn&#039;t compare to the post WW1 literature.

Most of the rest seems to have been dominated by English satirical writing or American novelists obsessed with the trifling burdens of suburban domesticity and/or failing libidos, or more recently either meaningless wordplay or ever more navel gazing identity politics. 

How much of it could hope to meet any of Adler&#039;s criteria, let alone all 3? By comparison, if I were to stretch it I might suggest works of SF that might address at least his third and occasionally his first criterion. Foundation and some other of Asimov&#039;s works, not always well written but definitely addressing perennial issues. Ditto Dune. Some Bradbury and Clarke. Cordwainer Smith, even when otherwise mere potboiler stuff.

I should stress that I am perhaps being harsh in my first sentence- there is probably more British and other literature than American that would meet Adler&#039;s criteria, perhaps including some of the best work in English by Indians and others. But even most of that is probably not timeless.

And would be amazed if much of anything written after 1945 would reward infinite study. That might apply to other art forms as well as the written.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not immediately sure that any literature written in the postwar era would meet Adler&#8217;s criteria. To be very generous, perhaps some of the postwar literature on the war, e.g. Vonnegut. But that&#8217;s pushing it. It doesn&#8217;t compare to the post WW1 literature.</p>
<p>Most of the rest seems to have been dominated by English satirical writing or American novelists obsessed with the trifling burdens of suburban domesticity and/or failing libidos, or more recently either meaningless wordplay or ever more navel gazing identity politics. </p>
<p>How much of it could hope to meet any of Adler&#8217;s criteria, let alone all 3? By comparison, if I were to stretch it I might suggest works of SF that might address at least his third and occasionally his first criterion. Foundation and some other of Asimov&#8217;s works, not always well written but definitely addressing perennial issues. Ditto Dune. Some Bradbury and Clarke. Cordwainer Smith, even when otherwise mere potboiler stuff.</p>
<p>I should stress that I am perhaps being harsh in my first sentence- there is probably more British and other literature than American that would meet Adler&#8217;s criteria, perhaps including some of the best work in English by Indians and others. But even most of that is probably not timeless.</p>
<p>And would be amazed if much of anything written after 1945 would reward infinite study. That might apply to other art forms as well as the written.</p>
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		<title>By: Grasspunk</title>
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		<dc:creator>Grasspunk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here I was expecting an article by GBFM.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And here I was expecting an article by GBFM.</p>
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