[Anke Wehner]

What really gets on my nerves is the attitude of "if you don't like this book, you are just too stupid to get it". Because the opinions of critics and scholars are absolute truths, and someone who doesn't agree with their tastes is defective, apparently.

I'll stick to genre-fiction, thanks. I haven't been labelled stupid for disliking one of those yet.

@Sweetpea: Wiktionary says, "a building up, especially in a moral, emotional, or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; through encouragement and instruction".