Books Circa 1950 or Before

[TheReal_ND]

Sorry, this is a great thread.

What's the magic about the "circa" 1950 or before tho?

That's a serious question.

The vocabulary, syntax and prose coming from pre 1950 Western authors is generally superior.

All the pages are white too.

The authors generally are. The pages no. What kind of lame joke was that?

[GloryofGreece]

Sorry, this is a great thread.

What's the magic about the "circa" 1950 or before tho?

That's a serious question.

The cutoff is a bit arbitrary but will do for an approximation. The primary reason is bc it put the author before the perversion of desconstruction/post modernism drivel. Not that everything after that decade was or is awful just that its decent place to start looking backward.

[Speaker to Animals]

You cut off Lord of the Rings and Broken Sword, though..

[TheReal_ND]

No he didn't. LOTR was being published in second or third edition by 53 and it was apparently completed by 49 according to wiki. I still remember reading my paper back trilogy and it was published in 53 or 55.

[Speaker to Animals]

That's after 1950, dude.

[Speaker to Animals]

I think GoG chose 1950 because he is racists against orcs.

[TheReal_ND]

circa

[Hastur]

Sorry, this is a great thread.

What's the magic about the "circa" 1950 or before tho?

That's a serious question.

The cutoff is a bit arbitrary but will do for an approximation. The primary reason is bc it put the author before the perversion of desconstruction/post modernism drivel. Not that everything after that decade was or is awful just that its decent place to start looking backward.

1923 would be a good place to start since all works published in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain.

[GloryofGreece]

I think GoG chose 1950 because he is racists against orcs.

I am against Orcs...haha.

Circa 1950 b/c I didn't want to have an exact year date as the proverbial "cutoff".

[Fife]

I'm happy with ≤ 1950; I was just wondering what was the reason.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1949
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1950