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Originally Posted by VydorScope
THat source is wrong, the reason you can not find any quote directly from him on it is because, to my knowledge, he never claimed it. Others keep saying it, but it is not true.
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No doubt you're right, but you missed my point (perhaps because I didn't make it very well). If so many people consider it religious, then why laugh if someone has it placed it into the religious genre? Many readers obviously see it as such.
This is one of the problems with genre; it is very much open to interpretation. Remember
Flowers for Algernon? It's filled with so much drama that most people forget that, at its heart, it's science fiction.
On the flip side, this is one of the great benefits online stores have over brick & mortar (B&M) stores. I was irritated that I couldn't find Toni Morrison in the "literature" section, finding all of her works, instead, placed in the "African American" section. (Sidenote: Isn't this a new type of segregation?) But a B&M store has to pick a genre because they can't shelve all their books in multiple different sections. Online stores, on the other hand, can have many different genres or tags assigned to a single work.