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Originally Posted by djtoast  I don't like much italian opera; doesn't mean much of it isn't good. Rossini, Puccini, et al wrote some fantastic operas that are "good"; I just don't enjoy that kind of music.
Likes and dislikes are personal; quality in the arts can be and is successfully measured and described and is mostly agreed upon by experts
I'm sorry you feel that way, studying (not just reading/listening to) music and literature has been a source of great enjoyment for me - trying to pin down what is good about a Sonnet or a Prelude is fascinating and invigorating, far |
I understand there is a distinction between the notion of objective quality and liking and disliking. My objection stems from the fact you have jumped upon the notion that the book is shit with a reasonably irrelevent arguement. I think its usually fair to assume that in common usage when people say something is "shit" they mean they thought it was shit. IE they didn't like it. I fail to see the need for someone to qualify such an opinion by stating - "its perfectly well written/performed/etc but I thought it was shit" as most peoples default assumption of their meaning will be the former.
If you want to carry on an arguement based on the spurious notion that people on the internet should qualify statments of opinion so as to avoid confusing you into starting objective arguements about objective quality then feel free. I just think its rather pointless. (Particularly when your talking about objective consensus amoung experts in the arts...)
