Thread: Are you as well-read as a 10th grader?
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Old 02-07-2013, 08:33 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by xg4bx View Post
When I was 15 and in honors english I got stuck reading stuff like Pigs in Heaven and Raisin in the Sun. I wanted to read books like 1984 and Starship Troopers, books that ended up sticking with me far longer than the snoozefests we had forced on us.

I wouldn't read most of the books on this list if you paid me.
"Genre fiction" always plays second fiddle to litfic, even though litfic is itself a genre. The difference seems to be that litfic has the support of academia, while genre fiction has sales numbers.
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