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View Poll Results: Should we change one of the classic months to another genre? | |||
Yes - Change it | 12 | 30.77% | |
No - Leave it as it is | 20 | 51.28% | |
Either way is fine with me | 7 | 17.95% | |
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07-25-2011, 06:43 AM | #16 |
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07-25-2011, 09:35 AM | #18 |
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^Much like the Jackalope, it is just hard to know if it really exists. It's not even in the wikipedia list of genres because it's not a genre. I'd define it as old and stuffy. But that would be me just trying to start a fight.
Now I've got to get back to Pride and Prejudice and A Journey to the Center of the Earth. I would classify those as period fiction and fantasy/science fiction. But your mileage may vary on those classifications. |
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"A Classic is hard to define, but I'll know it when I see it" ... From Wikipedia: Quote:
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The problem with classic is that some of the books classified as classic don't fit. So what's wrong with something that's going strong after 14 years, has immense popularity, is not going away any time soon and will soon have renewed interest as well. |
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I suspect that, in another 10 years, the movies will be remembered and still widely watched; the books will be available, but no more relevant than any other modern fantasy series. However, since we don't have a strict definition of "classic," and they are well-known as influential books, I can't see anyone insisting you can't nominate one of them. I just don't expect it to win. |
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I cannot say what will happen in 10 years. But it is a series that brought books to a lot of people who were not reading. That's social impact, |
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Personally, I am not ready to reread the Harry Potter series, but I can definitely see doing so in the future. I am, however, currently rereading the Hollows/Rachel Morgan series; its been 2 years (give or take) since I read it the first time and I would have nominated it for the Fantasy category. |
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I guess Issybird was right. Not only does it seem like we are headed for the continued 2 months of classics, we also have The MobileRead Literary Book Club which offers classics year round. Which is kind of funny seeing as so many were convinced we were goint to have a fantasy and science fiction overload. There are 4 days of voting left. Classics will still have a home here (in either May or December), I just hope that we can broaden the appeal of the club a little more by adding one new category to the list. Last edited by Nyssa; 07-26-2011 at 08:38 AM. Reason: Having trouble with the link tags... FIXED |
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07-26-2011, 09:36 AM | #30 |
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A big part of the problem here is that we're talking apples and oranges; it's been said upthread. Classics is not a genre, a la SF or romance or mystery, any of which could qualify as a classic. As a big umbrella category, classic isn't terribly limiting in regard to genre (no manga?). The limitation is to restrict it to books which have been time-tested and are highly regarded; they have made it past the stage in which a work is merely dated or of period interest.
From my POV, SFF tends to take over a lot of other categories. I love humor, but the nominee a month ago was SF humor. I passed, but I happily gleaned several suggestions from the nomination list. We also have more than one "open" category, next month even. if it seems important to mandate a genre not listed (especially if you find that open months tend to be redundant), why not co-opt one of those months to historical fiction, or what have you? Would that "broaden the appeal?" Finally, while the Literary Book Club may read classics, that's not the point of it. It can be any book which is considered to have literary merit and not just popular appeal. It can be a classic, but it doesn't have to be. I think the conflation of the terms genre and category has caused a lot of the head-butting here. |
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