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Originally Posted by gmw
Yes, exactly. We each skew our genre categories according to our own interests (like Eskimo words for snow). It is exactly this phenomena that makes using genre potentially difficult in a book club situation, because everyone has different expectations of the same category. Themes come with no expectations ... or if they do, the club soon knocks them out.  |
That is so funny--I was also thinking about the plethora of Inuit words for snow, from a semantics class I took in grad school.