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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Actually that's exactly my point - Ms. Meyer writes something that resonates with millions of people that they are willing to spend their money to read it. That most of those people happen to be of different demographic than me, it's neither here nor there...
If you want to call that *crap* it's your prerogative of course, but for me that becomes a semantically empty word.
I just do not get why people believe that any *real*, *good*, *whatever positive quality* book has to be for them too, while people generally accept that lots of other things appreciated by large segments of society - *movies and movie stars*, *sports*, *video games* are not for them.
I see these kind of comments - this book is *junk*, *crap* whatever from people who clearly are not the book intended audience, while I usually see this movie, this TV series or that game does not interest me from the same kind of people who are not that particular form of entertainment target audience.
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I suppose it depends on who you talk to. Empty word or not, I will often refer to even the most popular show on TV as "crap" if in my opinion it is crap. That's all it is .... a term that expresses an opinion.
I am happy for this author that "millions" of people (really?? millions??) read her books and are positively wild about them. Good chance I might think they are crap. And, it's not just a matter of demographics. I'm pretty sure I'm not in the "target audience" for "Harry Potter" or for books by Beatrix Potter for that matter. I still happen to think they were and are great work. So ... maybe they are someone else's "crap." Doesn't change much of anything about them for me.
Personal taste is not something that everybody else gets to vote on. So, the fact that "millions" (again .... seriously??) of people love this person's books means nothing with regard to my personal opinion. The only vote that counts there is my own.