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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The list in question was compiled by NPR, a pretty PC outfit to start with.
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I believe it was a poll, though, so as usual it's us in the general public who are to blame.
There is quite a bit of ropy old garbage in there, but I guess people were voting for the books they remember enjoying decades ago. The suck fairies have been at them since then.
I think the original project is kind of forgivable if you take it as data rather than as a conclusion. If I'm measuring the heights of the students at a school, it doesn't really matter how good the education is. The two might turn out to be linked, but that's a separate step.
I do wonder if fantasy is a bit of a write-off by definition. The Hero Rescues Princess archetype is pretty strongly bound into the genre. I blame Homer.
The author of the Iliad, not Simpson.