Depends on the authors. The more famous and classical the author is, the higher your prior should be that every sentence, name and scene serves a purpose to explore a character and thus the main theme of the book. Chekhov / Tolstoy / Shakespeare etc. are definitely on the highest density side of the spectrum. Fanfiction might often be pretentious.
Depends on the authors. The more famous and classical the author is, the higher your prior should be that every sentence, name and scene serves a purpose to explore a character and thus the main theme of the book. Chekhov / Tolstoy / Shakespeare etc. are definitely on the highest density side of the spectrum. Fanfiction might often be pretentious.
I think leogao meant that the readers were being pretentious in their discusions of the book (looking at tea leaves).