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Frankly I tend to agree with Moejoe in that most genre fiction(SF, fantasy, crime, etc) is formulaic crap that is not terribly well written or worth reading.
Of course so is most all other fiction, be it genre or "literary".
So if one is to dismiss an entire genre based on the idea that most of it is crap then one must logically dismiss most fiction of any variety/genre for the same reason.
In any field of writing you will have exceptional writers and stories and you will have crap writers and stories. From my reading experience I can't say that I notice much difference between genre and literary fiction with regards to the ratio of crap to quality.
My advice.......read whatever floats your boat and don't waste too much time worrying about what other people read or about what other people think of what you read.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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