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Originally Posted by LucyLu
I agree with you regarding the encouragement in reading but I think that books should be intellectually stimulating especially for young people. I'm young too (only not "so young"  ) and I know that sometimes reading something "light" is fun but this kind of books (I'm referring to the whole series) are intellectual black holes in my opinion. |
Probably no more, so, than Mills and Boone romances, which sell in their millions. Heck - probably hundreds of millions altogether.
Reading is entertainment. If it's fun to read, does it have to have literary merit? "Literary fiction" obviously has its place, but so does "fluff".