tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post1741605528303794098..comments2024-03-27T12:54:20.598-07:00Comments on The Misadventures Of Super Librarian: Why I Can't Be Bothered With RespectWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485867264936716806noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-5228777544997810722006-05-27T22:17:00.000-07:002006-05-27T22:17:00.000-07:00What a great entry! I wrote a paper for my moderni...What a great entry! I wrote a paper for my modernism and postmodernism English class about the connections between genre fiction and "highbrow" or canon literature and you mentioned many of the points I brought up in my paper, how genre fiction makes you feel something and can find ways to make you connect with the stories in a way that the read for pleasure only reader can understand.<br><br>But yes, I was intrigued by your thoughts in this direction.Sarahhttp://lepapillon.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-16433256550503687272006-05-25T10:19:00.000-07:002006-05-25T10:19:00.000-07:00I have not read any of those books either-despite ...I have not read any of those books either-despite being a lifelong bookworm. I was an English major and all I remember thinking during my last semester was how I couldn't wait to chuck out all the required reading and spend a year on nothing but romance novels. Our assistant director is a former English teacher who is always trying to get me read the type of books on that list, but to me most of it is depressing and I say give me a harlequin any day.Sam Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-45936335129944793412006-05-24T13:23:00.000-07:002006-05-24T13:23:00.000-07:00Here's the list from NPR. Have I mentioned I l...Here's the list from NPR. Have I mentioned I love NPR?- Lori<br><br><br>The 'New York Times' List<br>The New York Times asks authors to weigh in on the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years.<br><br> <br>WINNER<br> <br>Beloved<br>Toni Morrison<br> <br>RUNNERS-UP:<br> <br>Underworld<br>Don DeLillo<br> <br>Blood Meridian<br>Cormac McCarthy<br> <br>Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels<br>John Updike<br>Rabbit at Rest<br>Rabbit Is Rich<br>Rabbit Redux<br>Rabbit, Run <br> <br>American Pastoral<br>Philip Roth<br> <br>ALSO RECEIVING MULTIPLE VOTES<br> <br>A Confederacy of Dunces<br>John Kennedy Toole<br> <br>Housekeeping<br>Marilynne Robinson<br> <br>Winter's Tale<br>Mark Helprin<br> <br>White Noise<br>Don DeLillo<br> <br>The Counterlife<br>Philip Roth<br> <br>Libra<br>Don DeLillo<br> <br>Where I'm Calling From<br>Raymond Carver<br> <br>The Things They Carried<br>Tim O'Brien<br> <br>Mating<br>Norman Rush<br> <br>Jesus' Son<br>Denis Johnson<br> <br>Operation Shylock<br>Philip Roth<br> <br>Independence Day<br>Richard Ford<br> <br>Sabbath's Theater<br>Philip Roth<br> <br>Border Trilogy<br>Cormac McCarthy<br>'Cities of the Plain'<br>'The Crossing'<br>'All the Pretty Horses'<br> <br>The Human Stain<br>Philip Roth<br> <br>The Known World<br>Edward P. Jones<br> <br>The Plot Against America<br>Philip RothBig Sisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-66089669588543547122006-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:002006-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:00I read literary fiction and I read romance and I r...I read literary fiction and I read romance and I read mysteries and . . . well, you get the picture. Each genre brings me something I like, or I wouldn't keep reading it. However, looking at the list of the Top 25, I realized I hadn't read any of those books. As you say, in the end reading should be a pleasurable experience, not something I do because it's like castor oil for the brain. I stopped reading Philip Roth when I asked myself why I, as a woman, should bother with someone so obviously misogynistic -- and he's not the only one in the so-called great author pool. I don't always require a HEA as defined by Romance, but I don't want to be depressed at the end of a book either.Susan Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-84098235594190310792006-05-24T09:24:00.000-07:002006-05-24T09:24:00.000-07:00The NYTBR is the most boring thing on the planet. ...The NYTBR is the most boring thing on the planet. That list of theirs is ridiculous. It's like coming up with a list of the best restaurants in the US by only surveying French chefs. I think they're getting a lot of criticism for it even among the literary crowd. <br><br>I agree with you 100%. It's the reason I wasn't an English major in college--I hate having people tell me what to read. A lot more people would read for pleasure if they hadn't been tortured by depressing crap in high school.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05804281162557876557noreply@blogger.com