Trashy Books
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ailbheI'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"?
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Date: 2003-05-20 06:37 am (UTC)Entire genres? Certainly not. Every genre, no matter how well populated it may be with flimsy, unchallenging, sensationalist books (which can, it must be pointed out, be fun to read - although I usually feel as though I'd eaten too many Wham bars when I finish one), contains genuinely worthwhile books.
There. I Has Spoken.