2,000 subscribers! I'm so delighted and bewildered. I started from basically scratch last year, and was cheerfully expecting to kvetch to a handful of friends forever. Hot damn, thanks so much!
The Guardian released their readers' top 100 novels, and my nerves aren't strong enough for the roller-coaster of: 'why didn't I think of that' to 'what is actually wrong with you'. Link ๐
Charmed, but also bewildered, that my latest post has views from LinkedIn. Unsure how my views on the Guardian's 100 Best Novels list contribute to Gross Domestic Product, but I love it. Welcome.
@eternalbrook@Glimpsesofcalm I am planning vaguely to write A Thing about Dark Romance, and cheerfully shunt the coughing baby aficionadoes to the hydrogen bomb of bataille
I don't have serious problems with the Guardian's Top 100 Novels list, but it did get me thinking about influential and beautifully-written genre fiction that wouldn't even be considered (Crime/ thriller/ SFF/ romance etc). Any thoughts as to what ought to be on the list?
@janhopi But this also gets into how nebulous 'literary fiction' can be as a category, colloquially at least. There may well be sound theoretical arguments for the existence of literary fiction as a distinct category, but in practice I'm not sure.
Hokie, I have been doing some thinking and I have a rough ordering - not of novels, but of genres from Least Respectable/Most Ignorable to Least Ignorable. Any Thorts?
@hardpietdepsi hehehe i'll have to shake your hand respectfully about jane eyre, which is responsible for far too much of my personality for me to travel with you. i haven't read wide sargasso sea, however.
Hokie, I have been doing some thinking and I have a rough ordering - not of novels, but of genres from Least Respectable/Most Ignorable to Least Ignorable. Any Thorts?