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Originally Posted by JDK1962
Exactly. The original article (and this thread) is like going out of your way to tell someone that their kid is ugly. It never ends well.
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I didn't start this thread to bash 'Literary Fiction'. I'm not sure *anyone* actually read the article.
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I'm really tired of literary fiction. No, not some of the works themselves, those great books given a lame label to somehow appropriate vestiges of their qualities and impart them onto a range of other works. There are plenty of books burdened with that designation that I love, and it is not the fault of the texts that they have been so unfairly labeled. I'm really tired of the idea of literary fiction, of the pretentious and patronizing aspects of it.
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The author (and I agree) believes that the label
Literary Fiction is being used to separate the
Good Stuff™ from the great unwashed.
Just because it's labeled
Literary Fiction doesn't make it good. Just because it's labeled as
Genre Fiction doesn't necessarily make it bad.
See: Sturgeon's Law