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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Eh. I don't get the snobbery about genres some people do. I remember some guy showing up on the alt.fan.pratchett newsgroup to argue that Discworld books were not actually fantasy, but instead satire, as if genreas were mutually exclusive. He said he couldn't admit to his friends he was reading fantasy.  |
Did he say
why he couldn't make the admission?
Genre snobbery is pervasive, and stems from misplaced notions of status. "Ewww! You read
that? Boy, you're a tasteless dweeb, and I'm
better than you!"
There are genres I'm simply not
interested in, like Horror - the point of Horror is to scare you, and that's not a feeling I enjoy or seek to deliberately provoke - but I don't look down upon it. I assume that like everything else in literature, there are good and bad examples of the form, and the bad ones are dreadful and the good ones very good indeed.
The trick is thinking through your judgments, and being able to say
why something didn't work for you in terms someone else will at least grasp, even if they don't agree.
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Dennis