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Bookpossum · 09-10-2018, 09:14 AM

I think mainstream is a good term in the sense that the fiction books we choose might well be classified in one or another genre by Amazon or whoever, but it is not something I consider.

I want to read books by people who write well, rather than having an interest in a particular genre. So I enjoy books by a variety of authors, including some who are listed in one or another genre. For example, Ursula Le Guin and Ray Bradbury are considered as SF writers, Neil Gaiman I suppose is a Fantasy writer, (well, so is Le Guin in some of her books) and so on. As far as I'm concerned, they are just authors whose books I enjoy.

I also read older writers, AKA the Classics, such as Anthony Trollope whose books I am exploring slowly, and of course from time to time I enjoy going back to Jane Austen and others. But I read them because I enjoy them, not because they are Literature with a capital L. Life is too short, and there are too many books out there, for me to read anything just because I think I ought to do so.

09-10-2018, 09:14 AM	#94
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	I think mainstream is a good term in the sense that the fiction books we choose might well be classified in one or another genre by Amazon or whoever, but it is not something I consider. I want to read books by people who write well, rather than having an interest in a particular genre. So I enjoy books by a variety of authors, including some who are listed in one or another genre. For example, Ursula Le Guin and Ray Bradbury are considered as SF writers, Neil Gaiman I suppose is a Fantasy writer, (well, so is Le Guin in some of her books) and so on. As far as I'm concerned, they are just authors whose books I enjoy. I also read older writers, AKA the Classics, such as Anthony Trollope whose books I am exploring slowly, and of course from time to time I enjoy going back to Jane Austen and others. But I read them because I enjoy them, not because they are Literature with a capital L. Life is too short, and there are too many books out there, for me to read anything just because I think I ought to do so.