[ SECRET POST #2628 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2628 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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07. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]



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08. [SPOILERS for The Wayfarer Redemption series/Sinner]
[WARNING for rape/incest]



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09. [WARNING for suicide]



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11. [WARNING for rape/abuse/etc (unmarked by OP, but I'd assume it applies)]



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13. [WARNING for eating disorders]

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. You know what I mean.

[chardmonster]

I really don't. In fact, the first two were written before "genre" was so hard-coded in our reading habits. You'll find Dracula and Frankenstein in literature sections when you go to the bookstore. You won't find Game of Thrones there.

If you only read stuff like Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings and refuse to read Frankenstein because "ew classics" then you are probably kind of silly. That make more sense?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

You'll find Dracula and Frankenstein in literature sections when you go to the bookstore.

That's not necessarily because they were written before genres solidified, though. You'll find plenty of modern genre novels in the literature sections of bookstores, too: Margaret Atwood's SF, Beloved, Never Let Me Go, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Magicians, Was, The Goldfinch, A Last Instance of the Fingerpost, etc. There's this obnoxious tendency among many people to believe that if a book is critically acclaimed and written in a "literary style" (whatever the fuck that means), then it can't possibly be genre fiction.

On your broader point that it's silly to limit yourself to a single genre (especially since genre categories are so messy anyway): eh, sometimes. I agree with you that if a reader's goal is just to read a good book, then it can be counterproductive to make up arbitrary rules like "these genres are good; those genres are bad." There are good books--however one might choose to define that--in every genre.

Otoh, not everyone's goal is to read a good book. Plenty of people read to unwind and/or to take themselves out of their lives a little and/or to get a quick hit of happiness, catharsis, etc. And if the easiest way they've found to accomplish that is to read predictably similar otherworld fantasy or HEA romances or whatever genre exclusively, then how's that a problem?