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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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That kind of snobbery is quite normal, as I've been told. I'm a part of a book club in which almost every member can point to moments like that.