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People who say to me, "I don't read fiction. Real life is interesting enough" - fuck you people. Fuck your interesting lives which are not usually interesting. I act nice when you ask me what I am reading as a setup to tell me that you don't read fiction because real life is interesting enough, but what I am thinking every time is "fuck you." Jesus Christ, you arrogant fucks. Like you have a monopoly on truth. Your preferences are no more than preferences, and the books you read could be fakedy fake fake fake and you would never know because they are more removed from your personal frame of reference than most literature. Shut up. I read nonfiction too, and even if I didn't, shut up.

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Date: 2010-02-11 05:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com
...inferior because the book is fiction...

"Only a novel!" et cetera as Jane Austen so aptly and still-accurately observed.

Lahiri may work for me because I am familiar with the physical, if not the social, landscapes her characters inhabit in America. You've probably heard of her but don't connect name with work---one of her books is The Namesake.

An air of writers' workshop strain hangs around too much of the recent fiction I have read (the Ferris especially, and to a certain extent the Berry). There's a kind of preaching-to-the-choir, or performance-for-in-crowd, feeling to so much of it, that neither engages nor impresses those not members of the elite. I think this is plaguing genre fiction as well. But, when did it not? The books that endure are the good ones.

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