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There are also people who regard some books as interchangable, such as my quoted romance novel a and romance novel b.
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the only people who say that about romance are non-romance readers who are not aware of the wide variety and richness of the genre and it's various sub-genres. I don't think you can say that about sub-genre-romance A (which may be angsty and emotionally wrenching) and sub-genre-romance B (which may be a light-hearted comedy of manners)
I daresay that is true of any genre - I don't know much about Westerns, for example, but I'm sure there are aficionados who will deny that Western by Author A is interchangeable with Western Author B - or even books by the same author within the same genre. for example, back to romances again, not all Nora Roberts are created equal, and I sometimes wonder that the author of The Witness is the same person who is writing the Inn Boonsboro books.