From my pov, there is a lot of performative reading going on in that clock app. People there read to get the 'big words' they can use to express themselves coz somehow that's their measure of intellectualism. Ofcourse one of the reasons we read is to expand our vocabulary, but have you sat with the themes, what is the context of the whole novel, what its correlation with contemporary issues, etc.?And sometimes we just read for fun, I mean. So reviewing a novel based on how many buzzwords it contains is some crazy business. There is a lot more to literary work than the words.
Exactly 💯... Nimesoma vitabu mingi and the nearest I got to critiquing simplicity maybe was on sentence structures and not words really... But TikTok, kuscroll kwingi ndio kuona mengi...
This is a really strong piece and a compelling case.
To be honest, I used to think the classics were the holy grail of literature. I assumed contemporary works were bland and superficial by comparison.
I was definitely wrong.
Once I began reading modern literature that was accessible to a broad audience yet still carried real artistic weight, I realized my view had been too narrow.
The depth I admired in the classics wasn’t confined to the past.
As you rightly pointed out, literature is about variety. It doesn’t live inside a narrow box.
From my pov, there is a lot of performative reading going on in that clock app. People there read to get the 'big words' they can use to express themselves coz somehow that's their measure of intellectualism. Ofcourse one of the reasons we read is to expand our vocabulary, but have you sat with the themes, what is the context of the whole novel, what its correlation with contemporary issues, etc.?And sometimes we just read for fun, I mean. So reviewing a novel based on how many buzzwords it contains is some crazy business. There is a lot more to literary work than the words.
Exactly 💯... Nimesoma vitabu mingi and the nearest I got to critiquing simplicity maybe was on sentence structures and not words really... But TikTok, kuscroll kwingi ndio kuona mengi...
And the strange thing is, people are siding with her in the comments, meaning it’s something people have normalized.Anyway, each to their own
She took down the video 😅, ni kama hata yeye alirealise ni ujinga anasema
Ole wake😂😂😂
I’d have been so mad listening to that review at that time 😂💀. SMH
😂😂 Yani nilijiuma mkono bana… like Kila mtu anafaa kuwa na opinion but zingine hapana 😂
This is a really strong piece and a compelling case.
To be honest, I used to think the classics were the holy grail of literature. I assumed contemporary works were bland and superficial by comparison.
I was definitely wrong.
Once I began reading modern literature that was accessible to a broad audience yet still carried real artistic weight, I realized my view had been too narrow.
The depth I admired in the classics wasn’t confined to the past.
As you rightly pointed out, literature is about variety. It doesn’t live inside a narrow box.
🙌🏿🙌🏿