Trashy Books

[ailbhe]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed at this as a categorisation. Yes, I have used it myself. But I don't understand how it's used - some people use to to mean "genre I don't like", some use it to mean "plot I don't like", some use it to mean "badly written", and some use it to mean "popular". What makes a book trash?

I think that I tend to use it to mean "poorly thought out" or "unoriginal and badly written". But I suspect I have also used it to mean "popular romance".

Can you think of any genres which you think of as "trash"?

Comments

I like this definition

[ailbhe]

I usually use "light" or "easy" to describe this. Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, for example. PG Wodehouse. Many of my favourite books are two-a-day reads.

We'll save phrases like "poorly thought out" and "badly written" for all those other books.