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The fact that so many books still name Harry Potter “the greatest or most significant or most influential” children’s series ever only tells you how far kid’s writing still is from becoming a serious art. Drama critics have long recognized that the greatest drama writers of all times are Tolstoy or Goethe, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Romance critics rank the highly controversial Harlequin over classic writers who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Children’s book critics are still blinded by commercial success: Harry Potter sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Romance critics grow up reading a lot of romance books of the past, drama critics grow up reading a lot of drama books of the past. Children’s book critics are often totally ignorant of the children’s books of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that JK Rowling did anything worth of being saved.
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>>9675406
http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
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What were the best children's books of the past?
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>>9675418
http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestyu.html
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>>9675591
He probably hasn't actually read all of those just like how he hasn't actually listened to all the albums he rates all the way through.
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>>9675602
do you have a source for him not listening to albums that he actually rates?
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>>9675655
I recall him saying something to that effect but I can't seem to find it and I can't be bothered to look that much, sorry anon. Take anything I say with a grain of salt.
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>>9675447
Alice in Wonderland probably. It's influenced people like Wittgenstein and Deleuze.
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>>9675655
That's a meme. He said in a recent interview with a /mu/tant that sometimes an album's so boring it's hard to even finish it and everyone misunderstood it to mean he sometimes never finishes albums.
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>>9675784
I heard that interview and what I remember him saying is that sometimes if an album doesn't hook him within the first two or three tracks he doesn't bother to rate/review it.
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>>9675447
H.C. Andersen's works are pretty dope.
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>>9675406
Goethe was hugely popular, though.
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Guys I've been reading Scaruffi intimately for close to 8 years, ask me anything. If I can't speak on his behalf, I can at least link you a relevant page.
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>>9675591
He hasn't read those books. You can tell because he rates The Man Without Qualities highly, which is a meme book designed by literary scholars to catch pseuds. They carefully crafted a reputation of it being a great work, but it's actually just random text after the first couple of pages. If you ever see anyone praising it you will immediately know they haven't read it and that they probably don't read in general. Don't tell anyone I told you this though.
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>>9675878
When will he fucking review music again? How come he has time to write essays about foreign politics but not put up even one album review in like three months?
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>>9675912
He puts out recent reviews in chunks and those chunks usually include a few albums that have generated a lot of noise as well as a few albums that have generated almost no noise. He has been sifting through bandcamps lately
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>>9675908
Because you haven't read many books yourself, you don't understand how difficult literature becomes palatable at an exponential rate. What seems like an impossible task to you (consuming and understanding tens of thousands of pages of dense material) only appears so because the one difficult book you managed to finish took you six months, and naturally you expect all similar tasks to require the same amount of effort. That is false, and you would know it firsthand if you actually read consistently.
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>>9675406
I see what you did there.
His essay on The Beatles is really something.
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>>9675726
Citation on that?
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