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Originally Posted by TGS
The literary philistines cannot have it both ways - to claim that literary fiction is rubbish and boring, whilst complaining that the term is used to separate the good stuff from the rubbish.
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Ok... This is my last post on this thread. You seem to not be wiling to actually *read* what is posted.
No where have *I* or the author of the originally linked article claimed that literary fiction as a whole is rubbish or boring. I've just finished "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov and found it to be an amazing book. The author has many Literary Fiction books he loves. Is some Literary Fiction boring and rubbish? Yes, by *my* definition, some is. I read for pleasure. My pleasure. If the book is boring, genre or literary, it's still boring.
Having a label doesn't make a great book. Get over it. Done.