Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf
What rather annoys me is romance that's disguised as a different type of book. There's way too many times searching online to see way too many romance books where they don't belong.
|
Genre doesn't exist as pertains to reading. It's a marketing term.
When I was young bookstores had a fiction section and a non-fiction section and a science fiction section and, in most cases, that was it. Fiction was alphabetic by author and you might find a western next to a fantasy next to a mystery next to a romance. They were simply novels.
Science fiction was the only exception since it was considered disreputable and was usually hidden behind the "adults only" section, today called porn.
The problem with genre is that it tells a writer what his/her parameters are instead of letting his/her imagination soar. So, while I care little for romance novels, every sign of the breaking of genre limitations is, to me, a good sign.
Barry