![]() ![]() And I’d like to be able to express those differences. And some of it is quite different from some other bits. ![]() The problem is, almost everything I read is ‘genre’. I’m totally happy just lumping everything in The Genre into the category “genre” and leaving it there. In a genre demarcation debate, I’m the one saying “look, does it really matter?” and “hey, linguistic demarcations are always vague and fluid around the edges” and so on. I am not somebody who obsesses over genre classifications. ![]() Now, I should defend that claim a little. So now I’ve created a different set of ad hoc categories without adequate forethought, and I’ve no doubt it’ll all be different this time.Ĭynicism aside, I have learnt a little from doing this once before: namely, that normal conceptions of genre (or at least subgenre) are frankly inadequate for the purpose. I tried doing this once before, when I joined GR… but I found the ad hoc categories I’d picked deeply inadequate, and rather than slowly reforming them I just scrapped them all in a fit of pique. Something monumental has occured: I have started to organise my Goodreads books by genre. ![]()
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