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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1343719" data-attributes="member: 812">What? That's no example of anything.I'm prepared to say this a few more times but eventually I'm going to give up: snobs exist. I do not oppose the suggestion that some people are obnoxious snobs. I won't even go up against the idea that university literature departments are rife with such snobs.But the fact that some people are snobs in no way supports the idea that there are only two kinds of readers -- those who read for enjoyment and those who read for intellectual stimulation. The ideas aren't even related.If you want to say that people attacking that writer are literary snobs, well, I'll listen. You'll need to provide some evidence to convince me, however. Saying that there are only two types of readers, and the type that doesn't like this book are snobs isn't doing very much to do so. You might as well just define the word &quot;snob&quot; to mean &quot;people who don't like The Fifth Sorceress.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1343719, member: 812"] What? That's no example of anything. I'm prepared to say this a few more times but eventually I'm going to give up: snobs exist. I do not oppose the suggestion that some people are obnoxious snobs. I won't even go up against the idea that university literature departments are rife with such snobs. But the fact that some people are snobs in no way supports the idea that there are only two kinds of readers -- those who read for enjoyment and those who read for intellectual stimulation. The ideas aren't even related. If you want to say that people attacking that writer are literary snobs, well, I'll listen. You'll need to provide some evidence to convince me, however. Saying that there are only two types of readers, and the type that doesn't like this book are snobs isn't doing very much to do so. You might as well just define the word "snob" to mean "people who don't like [i]The Fifth Sorceress[/i]." [/QUOTE]

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