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Originally Posted by jgaiser
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.
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It is the case that the article cited in your OP seems to be exercised by the use of the term "literary fiction", and makes the rather obvious point that simply calling something literary fiction does not thereby make it any good. However, most of the subsequent contributions to the thread are quite clearly of the the "literary fiction is by definition boring" variety.