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<blockquote data-quote="rooneg" data-source="post: 8719023" data-attributes="member: 6779504"><p>So, you're not wrong, any book can be good and any book can be bad. That said, "good" and "bad" are not enormously useful descriptors here. Authors of Genre Fiction and authors of Capital L Literature are (typically) trying to do different things, because they're satisfying desires of different populations of readers. It's also most definitely not a binary thing. There's a spectrum. My wife makes her living as an author of mystery novels, and her work definitely has elements in it that are further along the spectrum towards Literature (i.e. more work on making sure various elements of the novel contribute to theme, scenes are there to serve multiple purposes, etc). That said, she also will be the first to admit that she's not really doing precisely the same thing as Captial L Literature. There are also definitely books that fit in the same genre as hers that are further towards the "genre fiction" end of the spectrum, and they don't necessarily do the same sort of thematic work, instead they concentrate on setting or plot or other things. They're just targeting a different set of readers who are looking for different types of books. It's not about "good" or "bad" in the abstract, it's about how well you're providing what your readers want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rooneg, post: 8719023, member: 6779504"] So, you're not wrong, any book can be good and any book can be bad. That said, "good" and "bad" are not enormously useful descriptors here. Authors of Genre Fiction and authors of Capital L Literature are (typically) trying to do different things, because they're satisfying desires of different populations of readers. It's also most definitely not a binary thing. There's a spectrum. My wife makes her living as an author of mystery novels, and her work definitely has elements in it that are further along the spectrum towards Literature (i.e. more work on making sure various elements of the novel contribute to theme, scenes are there to serve multiple purposes, etc). That said, she also will be the first to admit that she's not really doing precisely the same thing as Captial L Literature. There are also definitely books that fit in the same genre as hers that are further towards the "genre fiction" end of the spectrum, and they don't necessarily do the same sort of thematic work, instead they concentrate on setting or plot or other things. They're just targeting a different set of readers who are looking for different types of books. It's not about "good" or "bad" in the abstract, it's about how well you're providing what your readers want. [/QUOTE]
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