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Old 02-08-2010, 06:45 PM   #9
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With all the (quite appropriate) bashing of the likes of Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer that goes on in any literature community (to say nothing of my own biases and lit-snobbery), I thought this was a good defense of quality reading. Of course, at some point the line between quality and "useless" must blur so the question of what constitutes a "good book" must inevitably come up.

Thoughts?
So........If I read the book "The Da Vinci Code" and thoroughly enjoyed it because it gave me an alternate point of view to a long established religious opinion............that would not be 'quality reading' in your opinion because the author was Dan Brown?

Who decides what is "good" and "bad"?

Reading can be, and is, an escape for many.

Personally, I think people should read what they enjoy........and the rest of us, including so called 'experts' should mind our own business.

But......thats just me.
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