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The bookshelves in my house are very loosely grouped--there are some categories we have multiple books in--and in many of the groups...

Entire shelves of books have been written about organization schema for books and libraries. Not surprisingly there are classes on it in...

There might be at least some usable information in the non-novel stuff people put in their novels--forewords, afterwords...

Tracking blurbs would be interesting, but it would be fraught, as you point out. I feel like what we'd need would be something that...

Crichton's an interesting one. I'm not as familiar with his work as King's, but scanning his Wikipedia page to get a better sense of...

I agree that it doesn't automatically equate there. It's my subjective estimation of their relative talent. And while I don't...

But...what about tpb vs mmpb vs hc??? Are we just going to let them MINGLE???

Exactly. High-minded literature sucks because it’s largely plotless and boring like large stretches of real life. The stuff that makes...

Combine it with a fake persona, a fake name, and a fake voice, and wait for the call from the Nobel Committee.

Suggestive subplots that are never paid off, inexplicable passages in foreign languages the reader does not read, feverishly bad...

Life is the crummiest book I've ever read, there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures that shock, and characters an amateur...

It's not weird; I'm just scanning your post to see if you agreed with me yet. If I don't see words to the effect of "you're right," I...

I'm not arguing against genre classification. I think there's a tendency to go too deep into taxonomies, but I think there's a lot of...

There's also a lot of room, even in a novel that very much prioritizes telling a hell of a story, for ... non-story thoughts to...

I don't know. I'm not too worried about classification as far as the literary fiction vs popular fiction split. It seems useless at...