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Originally Posted by TimeLady
I can't say I've ever appreciated Literary Fiction. I tend to get about four or five chapters in and part of my brain starts going "Why are you reading this? You could be reading something you enjoy instead..." and then I give up and it joins the pile of books with eternal bookmarks in them.
There's a tendency for literary fiction to be all pofaced and serious and look down on other genres, but really, genres are for bookshops: there are books and good books and not so good books and whichever ones you like is great within reason.
Literature isn't a genre, it's a mode of reading, a relationship between reader and book (and maybe author, I dunno) and sure you might get more literary insight from Tolstoy than Thomas the tank engine, but whatever.
Like, one of my favourite genres is travel writing, by which I mean that 95% of travel books I wouldn't consider reading, but some of my favourite books are travel books. Ditto science fiction and fantasy. Ditto crime.
Last edited by kokiri; 09-24-2013 at 08:40 AM.