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Old 03-02-2016, 04:48 PM   #16
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So keep doing these lists they way they do and call them something else, then. Problem solved. "This Week's Notable Movers (as curated by self-proclaimed curators)" comes to mind.
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So keep doing these lists they way they do and call them something else, then. Problem solved. "This Week's Notable Movers (as curated by self-proclaimed curators)" comes to mind.
"Books well-bred people are reading this week."
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"Books well-bred people are reading this week."
"Books well-bred people are reading this week (minus the ones they'd be embarrassed about if you knew they were reading them)."
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My nomination for new bestseller list name.

Books uber literary leaders should have in their sales.

Sorts out the problem of having to pretend to follow actual sales if something they don't approve of sells well. Shame about the acronym though.
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My nomination for new bestseller list name.

Books uber literary leaders should have in their sales.

Sorts out the problem of having to pretend to follow actual sales if something they don't approve of sells well. Shame about the acronym though.
One too many s' s.
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Outside of the now digital amazon best seller lists, I have never looked at the ones published in the NYT and such things. The fiction genres I read never made it those lists.

Well bred, I ain't
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Old 03-04-2016, 04:05 AM   #24
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Anti-intellectualism among readers is particularly fascinating.

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Old 03-04-2016, 07:09 AM   #25
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Anti-intellectualism among readers is particularly fascinating.

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Almost as fascinating as the penchant for the faulty attribution of "anti-intellectualism" (not to mention a percieved blind patriotism) to someone noticing that a primarily financially-motivated entity doesn't actually report very accurately on what it claims to report on.
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What's the definition of "well-bred" and "anti-intellectualism" then?

What the advertising market wants everyone to believe? How many just wait for the movie?

I don't read the lists, I read for my own interests.
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Well-bred = snotty. The kind of folk who'd drown in a rainstorm. Or the kind of bookstore clerk who berates you for buying what you like. (One of the under-appreciated virtues of online shopping is not dealing with those "book loving" clerks.)

Anti-intellectual = genre readers. The kind of rabble who don't read what the well-bred tell them to read.

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I've always understood anti-intellectualism to be the type of person who actively takes pride in the fact that they never read a book, or are completely ignorant of maths, science, or whatever other topic it might be. Unfortunately this is a genuine phenomenon in the UK - I've encountered it personally.
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I've always understood anti-intellectualism to be the type of person who actively takes pride in the fact that they never read a book, or are completely ignorant of maths, science, or whatever other topic it might be. Unfortunately this is a genuine phenomenon in the UK - I've encountered it personally.
Oh, it is extremely common in the US, too.
Latin countries, too.
Part of it is a reaction to the snotties, who give true intellectuals a bad rap.

The US anti-intellectual streak is heavily laced with luddism and anti-tech and is has been the foundation of populist politics going back to the nineteenth century.
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Well-bred = snotty. The kind of folk who'd drown in a rainstorm. Or the kind of bookstore clerk who berates you for buying what you like. (One of the under-appreciated virtues of online shopping is not dealing with those "book loving" clerks.)

Anti-intellectual = genre readers. The kind of rabble who don't read what the well-bred tell them to read.
That would be me, then. Think I have almost every book on the Mars Rovers and getting ready to branch out into other spacecraft. Since like likes like, books about well-bred snotty people don't interest me.

I've also read H.L. Mencken's "The American Language" for pleasure, so what kind of genre is that? What about other non-fiction?
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