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Originally Posted by issybird
Erotic, horror and sport I get; I don't read them myself. But "literary critic winners" must have a meaning for you that it doesn't for me. "Critically acclaimed"? "Literary prize winner"? Either or both? The issue for me is that books in both (overlapping, as you'd expect) categories can range from the highfalutin and unreadable to the solidly middle brow (also mostly unreadable). OK, I did use the word "unreadable" to describe the ends of the spectrum, but there can be decent stuff in the middle.  |
The same could be said of horror, a genre I read and enjoy (along with 'literary critic winners').
I started this thread, because man, there's some quirky stuff out there. But I don't dismiss any genre/flavor out of hand.