5/30/2023 0 Comments Book crush nancy pearlAs it is, I know I've omitted some wonderful novels, like Ursula Le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea, Dahlgren by Samuel Delany, George R.R. There is simply so much excellent stuff out there - both new and old - that I know people would enjoy, that the list could have been at least four times as long. Genre labeling not only ghettoizes particular books, but it narrows the world of literature for readers, rather than expanding it.Īnd speaking of genre, although I don't consider myself at all a science fiction/fantasy fanatic, I must say that selecting the books for this topic was harder than any of the others that I've done. When these people find that they really like a particular work of genre fiction, they're inclined to use phrases like "transcends the genre." Though I am not a particularly violent person, hearing this always makes me want to throttle the speaker. However, for many people, the word has a pejorative taint - they see genre fiction as being somehow "less" than non-genre writing. Sometimes, of course, it is simply used to describe a type of book that makes use of certain conventions.
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