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Originally Posted by crich70
The problem with thinking analytically about things is that even at our best the average person has personal bias in what they think is good or bad in terms of writing. We all have our own view on things which can lead to blind spots. After all we are only human. So what one person considers literary another might consider dull and uninteresting and what one person may consider a classic may also be considered literary by another person. Many books fit under several different descriptors in that way.
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I have no argument with anything that you say here - I find many literary works difficult to get on with. However, I do reflect that if these works have been judged to be of merit by a number of people with expertise over a number of years then, that I find them difficult or uninteresting is something to do with me rather than something to do with the intrinsic nature of the works in question.