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Originally Posted by jackokent  Hi Peter and welcome to Chronicles
Jumping straight in is expected and no one's opinions are shunned here... well except a few 
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I think we are far less open to our own favourite types of books being put into a genre than we are the types we don't like.
I find genres useful as long as they don't rule my life or make me so blinkered I'd never try crossing a boundary. |
A very fair point, but I think there is an over-reliance on genre. Perhaps it is one thing to use genre as a convenient "tag" for deciding in which part of the bookshop to place a certain tome, but it all goes a bit far if people (and I'm really referring to the professionals here) take against a well written book just because it has goblins or whatever in it.
I would see myself as the sort of person that doesn't read romance, but at the same time I'd include both "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Wuthering Heights" amongst my favourite books. Admittedly, they'd both end up in the "classics" section of the bookshops, but a modern day equivalent would probably be in there with the Mills & Boon and I wouldn't look twice!
Best regards,
Peter