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Originally Posted by Salgueiros
The opposite is also annoying, i mean those who just because they liked a book assume that book is awesome, no matter how bad in reality that book is and how limited is their capacity to objectively judge the literary value of some work. Those types of people make everything relative, and some things are good or bad in absolute terms.
We need critics and we need elitist readers.
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It would be annoying to meet someone who told me that I must absolutely love
Twilight because they loved it and that it is the best piece of literature ever because they loved it! Yes, I agree that I would probably not like this person or at the very least, not discuss books with them. Now, if someone likes
Twilight, I don't have an issue with that and most of the people I know who have read it don't say that it should win the Pulitzer Prize. On the flip side, I'm sure I would be equally annoying if I said that you must absolutely love
Jane Eyre and that you must not know good literature if you don't like it. It works both ways.
I still think that doesn't address the issue of what it means to be well-read. That addresses the quality of a work and even that isn't static.