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Alright, I would normally slap on a disclaimer here but I doubt it's particularly controversial with the crowd on this forum. I'm extremely thankful for the fact that publishers are inclusive with their chick lit tags. Please don't consider me an insensitive chauvinist but I just can't stand coming-of-age, emo-teens, metrosexual romance-suspense-dramas. Does this mean I look down upon the genres? Absolutely not, my better half regularly reads me passages she considers particularly enticing and I can derive just as much joy from a well crafted, romantic paragraph as anything I choose to read myself. It's just the whole 300+ pages of the stuff that make me run screaming from the room.
I enjoy science fiction and, to a lesser degree, horror. Mostly because it doesn't involve anything I encounter in my day to day life. Escapism? Probably, but that's just the way it is. Thanks to the publishers' (quite possibly erroneous) stance I can easily avoid most books I know I won't like. But, and here's the paradox, I entirely sympathize with the OP.
They're doing the same to the fantasy and sci-fi genres. These days it's hard to find a book that isn't -both- sci-fi and fantasy, according to the publishers at least. To make matters worse it seems the horror tag is added to everything containing a single line with the word "blood" in it. Genres don't mean squat anymore, tags even less so. I go with recommendations from fellow readers and that's that.
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