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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
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.
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Yeah, it is. SF/fantasy was looked down upon for a long time. It used to be a sore point among the folks I hung out with that the New York Times has a case of it, and SF was unlikely to be reviewed in the NYT Book Review, while Mysteries fared far better.
The NYT is better now (and it's hard to hold the line when SF may hit the NYT Bestseller list), but for some time their designated SF reviewer was Gerald Jonas. He means well, likes the genre, and has written it himself, but from my POV had an unerring tendency to miss the point of what he read.
It made me wonder if no reviews at all might be better than reviews that Didn't Get It.
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Dennis