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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
Yes, this is my point! I don’t see categorizing books as being exclusive and without shades of gray. Books like The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Dracula are clearly recognized classics. I would look for them in a bookstore or library under classics. That doesn’t mean they aren’t mysteries or fantasies too.
All I’m saying is we read a lot of books that are either mysteries or otherworldly in some SF/fantasy way. It doesn’t matter whether you think those terms are the main genre or the subgenre.
Many people out there like me mostly want to read books about humans on Earth without these other elements. Not that I don’t read books in science fiction or fantasy. They are just a smaller subset of my total reading and so I can group them broadly like that. By the same token, many people only want to read science fiction or fantasies and might just group the rest of stuff as general fiction whereas I break out many detailed categories.
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OK, color me confused. Your initial post on the subject seemed to bemoan the lack of variety in the choices--they were all SF/F or mysteries, you said. Now you are saying "I don’t see categorizing books as being exclusive and without shades of gray"--but you're the one who DID categorize the selections without those very shades of gray.
