>>24611562
I think there’s a moment in every young reader’s life where they’re reading some book and it just seems stale. The plot goes on, the characters talk, things happen, but you get sick of that whole routine. There’s nothing interesting, all the drama is superficial, all the events seem inane. You almost start digging into the text as an unconscious habit, looking for typos or strange turns of phrase, SOMETHING to break out of that monotony of plot plot plot. A lot of these genrefic writers read nothing but genre fiction, so they all start to sound the same. Same descriptions, characters talk the same, everything the same. You need to eventually “graduate” to real literature if you’re above a certain level of intelligence. Obviously literary genrefic exists (and sometimes it even exceeds a lot of “classics” that just plain stink) but I think the transition toward higher lit is inevitable for smart people.
